This Will Destroy Your Emergency Generator! Don't Make This Mistake 

Why do you have to be such a clown? Very distracting...

As a master small engine mechanic I appreciate your video on this topic. I've tried to tell people for years about this and why their machines, (especially chainsaws) are damaged by it. One thing to add to your video. If you get your ethanol free fuel from a station with one hose for all grades. Put the first 2 to 3 gallons in you car then switch to your gas can. Other wise you get 2 to 3 gallons of whatever the last person pumped. And if you're filling a 2.5 gallon can...... Well you're screwed.

Dude, your video quality and entertainment value has skyrocketed over the past year. Good job!

My advice, no matter what kind of gasoline, is to NEVER shut off the engine with the ignition switch. It's much better, to cut off the fuel valve, and let the carburetor float bowl run out of gas. (engine unloaded, of course) After the float bowl runs out of gas, wait a few minutes, to allow the fuel line to drain into the float bowl, put on the choke, and pull the starter cord again. The engine will often start again. Having the choke on, helps the engine vacuum the last bit of residual fuel out of the idle circuit, as well as the emulsion tube and the main circuit. Never allow fuel to just evaporate out of the carburetor, or there will be gum, varnish, or corrosion, none of it good! The big problem with ethanol, is that it is an electrolyte, not a dielectric! that invites galvanization of dissimilar metals within the carburetor. Keep in mind, you have an aluminum carburetor body, with a steel float bowl, held in with a brass bolt. The float is brass arms, supported on a steel hinge pin, held in aluminum castings of the carburetor body. Plenty of places for a white aluminum gel like substance to form, leaving pits throughout the entire carburetor body. If that happens, just buy a new carburetor! All those problems can be solved, if the carburetor is completely drained of fuel, after every use.

Another important tip is to turn off the fuel switch, and run the carb dry before you put it away. That way you do not have a nice full float bowl of fuel to turn into varnish and block the jets. That way the only place the fuel is is in the tank and the switch, and nowhere else.

Excellent video! We keep 60 gallons of gas (E10), that is always treated with stabilizer, stored away for our generator. It lasts a year no problem. Big thing to remember! Always turn off the fuel and run the generator until it dies. That way all of the ethanol is out of the carburetor. If you don’t trust E10 to last a year, just cycle your fuel through your vehicles and keep the cans fresh every few months. Whatever floats your boat.

Please never ever stop being such a goofball .. the fun really keeps my attention and I end up absorbing it all Thanks for the information! You're quite the teacher!

Man, your video editing effects are getting so much better - nice job.

I'm so glad that there are stations near me that sell Ethanol-free gasoline - 91 octane. It's great stuff. We run it in all our small engines, classic tractors, and boat!

This video had me laughing so much, WHICH I NEEDED😅! Your family is so blessed and fortunate to have you in their lives❣️

I have a friend who works on small engines like lawn mowers and snow blowers as well as generators. He recommended to me years ago to use the Blue "Marine" Stabil instead of the Red one. I have never had an issue related to fuel in any of my small engines since.

I was trying to fix my surging generator engine, but now I'm just watching all your videos. Bravo ol' chap... bravo 👏

Awesome, Adam. I had no idea that ethanol contained so much wooder.

Thanks for sharing! Didn't think about that! Excellent and fun video! 👍 This explains why every year after winter, lawn mowers and grass trimmers wouldn't start and needs membrane or gasket swap in carburetors because they get hard as rock and won't work properly.. Didn't know about fuel storage add - that's great tip.

In our town, we have a gas station run by an old school guy, and when I asked about ethanol free, he said "we've always had ethanol free and never had that sh!t gas." It's like a legit old man gas station, no computer pumps and a grizzly old guy in the corner talking to the owner.

Most entertaining video I've seen this month. Love the editing.

I DIDN"T KNOW the ethanol gasoline was bad for my generator or any small engines!!! I went to start my and it is leaking gas everywhere. Now I need to order new replacement part, hoses , etc. Thank you for the informative and valuable information

Ran 90rec in my 5.7 tundra and only got 1mpg gain vs 87e. I was also told that if you have been using non ethanol gas that a film builds up in the tank over time and switching back to ethanol gas will break up that film and cause issues with injectors and filters. Good content. Thank you

Excellent science experiment to demonstrate the point. Luckily in our area, I have found non-ethanol premium gas which I stabilize for the Generator(27 Gal), and every 6 months, I recycle it though the tractors or cars so that I am working with relatively fresh gas if we have a disaster. I also replaced my 1998 Generac xl 5500, the best maintained piece of equipment that I have with a new inverter. My choice was between the preditor 3500 that you have and a Firman 3382. I went with the firman which was $849 at the time.

I can't believe you're not famous yet. Very informative and pretty funny. Kept my attention through the whole video.

I’m blessed to have a non-ethanol gas station near me. Thanks for the vid.

You're a nut!! That's why we love watching your videos. Very informative, keep up the good work!

I I have to say I've learned a lot watching you also you're quite entertaining thank you! Keep my attention. So many people are so serious when we or I need humor.

Today I learned something new, which is convenient since I hooked up my expensive new generator to run the whole house for the first time today. I've seen non-ethanol available at local stations, I just never bothered looking into until watching your video. Thanks for the info. I'll definitely be putting it to use from now on.

I have the same generator. I swear I learn more from you than anywhere else!

Great video! The first thing I did when I discovered E10 gumming up the carbs of my small engines was switch to E-free gas. There's one station near me that has that as Premium. Sure, I get a tiny bit of "E-gas" that was in the hose, but I can say from experience that it's meaningless. No more gumming problems in my chainsaws, quads, lawnmowers, pressure washer...

The part where you talk about how great E10 Is was so informative. Laughing my ass off! 👍👍

The world needs fun guys like you,keep up the great work.

Holy crap!!! This was hilarious and super informative. This absolutely happened to me a few months ago. Ended up replacing the carburetor. I'm a new fan.

Y'all definitely correct about the ethanol problem . Been running 90 octane pure gas for years. No alcohol in genset or lawn mower. Treat with stabil, date it and recycle thru the car every 2 years. Works like a charm.

don't add octane booster back to it...it's largely alcohol. none of your small engines are going to care about it's octane rating; they don't have enough compression to spit on.

I knew the test separated the alcohol but hadn't thought of using the same method to create my own gas. It's an interesting tip.

Dude, I loved your water purification system.

3 chain saws, 2 generators, 2 lawnmowers, 3 ATV's and 3 motorcycles ALL use "ethanol free gasoline" from the local gas station. It's higher octane rated than regular, but slightly higher priced as well. Stations all over here sell it, mostly in rural areas where there are no tree huggers. I had no idea you could separate the two, thanks.

I love your content but I think I love your sense of humor more.

Oh man your videos are both are both informative and goofy as hell. Fantastic!

Haxman, You are a funny individual. I always appreciated teachers that could insert humor in a lesson. Keep up the entertaining instructions, the world needs a good laugh. Anyone who can't laugh at your antics surely must be sporting British dental work.

E10 isn't mandated for environmental reasons. E10 is mandated to subsidize Big Agra corporate-owned corn farms. Surprise, surprise, surprise.

That was pretty cool Adam. Man you are killing it with the info, editing , and comedy. I can’t wait till I grow up and make videos as good. Thanks for the amazing video again!!!😁👍🚜💨🍳

Good stuff, well presented, and humorous too. Thanks!

Great production quality. The information was helpful.

Where I live you can just straight up buy 100% gas. I exclusively use it for my small engine stuff or if I plan on being parked a long time. It's totally worth it. It's a bit more expensive than mixed fule but you're not going to use much in your lawn equipment and generator. Worth the premium also if your going to be parked a long time. I got my teenager a fixer upper before she got her license. we didn't drive it much and were mostly parking and working on it in over a year. That year it ran on clear gas because it only used a few tanks of gas.

Very educational, while being very humorous. Thank you for educating the rest of us, while giving the tongue-n-cheek distraction needed in presenting such a topic. Very inviting in an "every day Joe" sort of way. Thanks! I want to see all of your videos. Keep up the great work!

Thanks for such informative videos.. I LOVE the distractions...very memorable!

Scary words, I'm from the gov and I'm here to help!!!

Seriously? I thought I was the only person that drinks gasoline. Thank you for making me feel like I’m not alone out here!!!

This is a hilarious video...I laughed the whole time, nice comedy. The fun part of this is that additives cause the problems. I loathe E10 for that reason. Ethanol burns cleaner than gasoline, by far. If you run on straight ethanol your engine will not wear, there are no carbon deposits clogging everything. Take an ethanol engine apart after a million miles and it will look brand new inside, with minimal wear in the cylinders. They do that in Brazil all the time, taxis run hydrous ethanol down there and the engines go forever. It also runs cooler, makes more power, and you can run a lot of compression on E85 and straight ethanol. I daily drive 11.5:1 and 13:1 iron head 455 Pontiacs on E85 and E100 that I make from tree sap and cattails. My carbs, fuel tanks, pumps, injectors, and lines are all spotless running E85 from northern Wisconsin, and home made E100. Yeah I run it in Qjets, Holleys, FiTech EFI, and non flex factory LS fuel systems. Additives in other locations can cause problems, and I am not the only one to find that. Go to onallcylinders and look up Jeff Smith's article about corrosion. The 70 GTO has been on E85/E100 since 2007 when I converted my first Qjet, thanks to $5 87 octane back then. The 65 GTO has been on it since 2018. No problems with either one. So how many decades does it take to cause a problem? Wanna know what the other fun thing is? That 'new study' is based on an *old* one done by a Cornell uni prof who studies bugs, his name is Pimental. He went to great lengths to make it worse than gasoline... bad inputs = bad outputs, it didn't make it through peer review because of how badly he skewed the results and inputs. Who funded his 'study'? An oil company did... might be why they got a bug guy to do it. He had no skin in the game so he could make things up at will. *Ethanol leaves nothing behind when it evaporates or burns, if it did you'd be drinking it and finding it in the bottom of bottles and cans. Let that sink in a bit...* Whiskey, bourbon, wine, beer, even those white claw things have some in them, its all the same stuff. Yeast eat sugar, and excrete ethanol and CO2. When you burn ethanol the only thing it emits is Co2 and H2O. Gasoline emits and leaves a whole lot more stuff than Co2 and H2O. Co, nox, particulates, all kinds of nastiness. Adding water to it merely lowers the proof, when you get low enough proof, like 140 or 30% water, then you start losing power. Richard Holdener showed that quite well with his moonshine test. Not all stills are created equal. It will still burn, still run the engine, and won't harm anything because of how water bonds to ethanol. Its a bond so tight on the molecular level that you need a still to separate them. If you add one gallon of water to one gallon of ethanol, you do not get two gallons of liquid. You get quite a bit less. Ethanol will mix with water or gasoline, but not both. That is not rocket science. Water and gasoline do not mix, which is why water in a gasoline tank is a bad thing, get enough and the pick up in the bottom of the tank will get water, and without ethanol, methanol (they are very different fuels) or isoprolyl in it, water will not burn. So many people have no idea about ethanol, and so many people give erroneous or irrelevant information to people. Its amusing at this point, and when gas prices go up all of this starts coming out to keep people from realizing they can make fuel themselves and run everything on it for dirt cheap. Why do I make fuel from cattails and tree sap? Because my cost is 40 cents a gallon, I can run 13:1 compression with iron heads and 40 degrees of advance, and it makes unholy power in a 455 Pontiac like that... 20mpg with a Qjet if I can manage to keep my foot out of it in the 70 GTO with its 13:1 compression. Oh, didn't you know? Raising the compression ratio not only makes more power, it raises the efficiency and improves mileage too. How much more power does ethanol make? I direct you to Engine Masters with David Freiburger and the Steves where they put a blower on a BBC with a tunnel ram, and made over 100ftlbs more, and it dropped the intake temps 100F degrees over gasoline with an intercooler vs E85 with no intercooler. The transmissions in my GTOs and the rear tires hate ethanol, because they take a beating from the torque. You can also watch John Wilburn's livestream where he and I talk about all this stuff, since I have been running it and testing it for more than 15 years. I had more problems running race gas in the 1990s than I have had running ethanol since 2007. Rubber hose, accelerator pumps, gaskets, and fuel pumps last longer with ethanol than they did on race gas or pump gas. The varnish left in my tanks from race gas made them useless, and rusty inside. Ethanol leaves them spotless, unless it has the additives that leave the yellow gel or the white chalky stuff. My 1998 Formula requires 92 octane with its LS1 engine, so it always got premium and around here that is no ethanol. Guess what happened when it sat for two years. The pump varnished solid and the tank rusted inside from condensation. So not only do I have to fix the rear end, I have to replace the tank, sender, and pump too. The problem is the additives they put in, and the craptastic gasoline they mix with ethanol then sell to all of you fine people. Remove the ethanol and you drop the octane a lot more than you think, but on a small engine with 7:1 compression, it doesn't really matter since they will run on 70 octane relatively easily.

THANKS! Great video, great INFO!

We have loadshedding so ofterhere in South Africa and our fuel has ethanol in too. It gets used up before water can form! My generator runs at least 8 hrs a week! Remember to also change oil often.

I love your style! Keep up the good work. The editing is phenomenal. I wish you'd do a class or video on that alone. Yes.. you're welcome.

I liked your production, a little humor, and a logical explanation. I started using 100LL aviation fuel in all of my small engines and motorcycle, up to 8 years shelf life and never a problem.

That hurts. But sometimes the best lessons are learnt the hard way. I have gotten rid of 6 small engines since I moved into the city. But an awesome no nonsense video

Brilliant, entertaining, and practical. Thanks...

Very informative and I love the comedy parts.. So silly but fun.

here in colorado. you know where it gets much colder than that place you preside in. we do get that e10 in the winter. im told its about stabilizing it and easier to start in the cold

AWESOME VIDEO! Super entertaining and very informative. Thank you

Love the humor you included in your video....Thanks for all the information.

It takes more energy to make the ethanol, AND WATER, than it gives back. Were sucking the Colorado river watershed dry- yet we waste water and fuel on corn for ethanol. Brilliant!

Cute video but this is really serious stuff . I bet if you researched octane boosters and let more people know just exactly what and why its used all this will be a lot clearer to every one . I was having hell every since ethonal in gas came out and wasn't by myself , but lawn mowers generators and everything that we use that gas sits in has been negatively affected so I found out our local grocery store in San Antonio and Wal-Mart's all get fuel from same place and the mid grade and high grade doesn't have ethanol in it so I've been using the mid grade for all my small engines and no longer had issues with water in my fuel. I don't need obtain boosters but the mid grade is fine for all my small engines

I enjoyed the hell out of the video. Very entertaining. Thanks Mike from Texas!

This was a great learning process about ethanol and the removal of it!. I cant find that gas with no ethanol so I've been running some cam2 racing fuel in my 67 f250 high-boy to protect the carburetor and lubricate my valves.

Excellent advice as always Hax, as an English man I fell to bits with your English accent at the end. Keep em coming buddy.

There is only one type of gas at the tank farm, when a tanker is loaded with gas it then pulls over for the addons to make the different types and grades (ethanol, higher octane & speical additives that some vendors use) . So all gas starts out as non-ethanol.

Thanks Haxman,,very interesting, and educational as well as entertaining,, THANK YOU

I learn something new everyday. Thank you!

The ETOH (ALCOHOL MOSTLY ETHANOL) you just through out, can be used for cleaning. It's ( should be better than 95% ethanol and up to 5% methanol), unless the more expensive 100% ethanol was used in the blend. The first gasohol used during the Carter administration had some alcohol blends that were as high as 50% methanol, and that melted many rubber fuel lines. But that alcohol you poured into the cat litter makes a great cleaning solution, lighter fluid for your grill or mixed with water, window cleaner.

First time watching your videos. I think you are hilarious and very knowledgable! Im not sure if you mentioned it but E10 sucks because it attracts water (hydroscopic) instead of being immiscible (hydrophobic) so it pulls in any water it can into your engine basically. Im from Australia I thought E10 was only a Brazilian thing have to say Im kinda shocked!

Great info and stellar presentation !

awesome videos, you make it fun, keep up the great job!

Don’t let anybody tell you you’re a clown. Most of us love your humor. You’re not forcing anyone to watch your videos.

The correct term for where the Ethanol is attracted to water is called HYDROSCOPIC (i.e. wants to combine with the water!) The opposite is HYDROPHOBIC where the water is REPELLED by said material! i.e. Teflon is HYDROPHOBIC. To power your small motors, my suggestion is to go completely with PROPANE and do a HIGH-SUMMER BULK BUY of Bulk Propane (in my area of western Canada, Superior Propane does 55 cents CDN per litre or $2.05 USD per U.S. Gallon when you buy 1000 gallons or 3700 litres minimum bulk buy!). That much will last the entire Winter Season if you keep only to simple space heaters and your stove, water heater and small 5000 watt generator run for a few times during the day when you really need it. The more you buy the cheaper it gets! And do note that Propane can be stored FOREVER if you keep your tanks clean and maintained properly! Gas and Ethanol last only 6 month tops even with additives! V

Brother your hilarios!! Very educational and Great editing. Thank you!

Your wife is lucky. Her hubby is not only knowledgeable and handy, he is funny to watch too. Thanks for educating me.

When testing for gas I prefer the cigarette lighter test over the taste test. 🤣

Haha I bust out laughing with the what makes e10 so great part! What also sucks up here in the north east is when we get that winter mix fuel crap! Which remind me, gotta fill up my generators winter gas supplies with summer gas before we switch over.

I like your videos first of all you straight to the point and keep pushing brother keep pushing

Most professional.Thanks youl

Super nice - thank you, helpful and entertaining 🙂

Thank you for this excellent video! Great job!

Just found this channel, awesome info and production value.!

I'm not going to do any of this but I'm still glad I watched the video.

Fantastic video, thank you so much !

DUDE, you and your family ROCK....................entertaining and informative....keep up the good work....Proud to be a Haxmaniac....Semper Fi

Very creative, and you are a hoot! Thanks!

Thank you. I did notice how fast my car was using gas after I filled it with the cheapest gas. I’ll never do that again.

Really great info. Thanks.

Very entertaining and informative.

Thank you for sharing. Much appreciated. Glad I didn’t have to learn the hard way

Oooh weee!!! you're my treasure find of the day sir this lady went looking for a mechanic to get some advice on learning a bit about generators and how I might repair one I was given... lo and behold I found YOU! What a bonus!! Thank you sir, I look forward to learning from you 🙏💃

Dude, love the video. You’re a trip my man!

I’ve watched thousands of videos. And I had to comment. This is awesome. Funny, great editing, clear and packed with info. Subbed

Dude you and your family are awesome - thank you for your videos

Well done -- THANKS! Now I know!

Great video. I absolutely loved the production and the thrown-in comedy. Still laughing.

What a great video,,,, I def liked, shared and subscribed, I look forward to seeing many more . You"re not boring and it makes the videos much easier to watch. Thank you for confirming something about E10 that I learned by accident.

Just realized I was watching this on 1.5 playback speed. It was still enjoyable. Thanks.

Very entertaining and good info! Keep it up!

We just bought a backup generator a few months ago, even filled it with fuel, this right here, convinced me to drain what I can, burn the rest, and go purchase a large propane tank for standby... glad I spent that little extra for the dual fuel geny

Retired after 50 + yrs as a car mechanic , now due to my new hobbies , i use chain saws , mowers , blower , weed eater . I use shell regular gasoline , and have zero issue . On the 3000 w generator , i shut the gas off to stop , all others the switch . I used to use the ethanol free gas , $ 20 a gallon . Went to car gas , and have no issues .

Love these videos! Thanks man