• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

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fuel treatments

nep2012

nep2012

Husqvarna
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Husky dealer where I got my bike gets crazy over gas. He says most of the problems he sees in his shop are due to ethanol. Had me using Star tron but said scrap that and use Liquid Performance. Works better and boosts octane. Seems to work well. Had popping/stalling problems. Raised the idle and started using Liquid Performance and popping/stalling alomost went away. They say this won't hurt motor even if use the higher rate, anybody with any experience with fuel treatments?
 
Ethanol will make your plastic tank swell and destroys plastics and rubber.
We are fortunate in Oz we have a choice of ethanol in fuel or without.
 
I have used liquid performance. My dealer highly recommended it. Seems that the bike runs good using it.
 
Same here, we probably all use Central Jersey Cycles Husky! But, I really believe Bob has tested this out though, on his desk must be every kind of fuel treatment made, and he told me that only with Liquid Performance did the water and ethanol not seperate out of gas. Enzymes Dr. Watson, SCIENCE!
 
I've started using Startron at Tinken's recommendation. I also use Torco Fuel Accelerator to bump the octane. My 511 runs terrible on all California gas, except it runs a little better with Chevron Supreme with the aforementioned additives. Startron is and enzyme additive.
 
Your dealer sounds like a quack. Fuel treatments (unless you need more octane or are storing the bike) are a waste of money.
 
Startron and Stabil both have enzymes which keep you from E10 separation. Stabil makes a marine formula which works very well. The image below shows all water added completely emulsified.

Liquid performance claims that ethanol equalizer is EPA registered and it is not, nor is there an MSDS sheet on the product anywhere online. I have requested one from the company, but word on the internet is that it is a snake oil. I will post if the company sends me one.

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w2ge said:
Same here, we probably all use Central Jersey Cycles Husky! But, I really believe Bob has tested this out though, on his desk must be every kind of fuel treatment made, and he told me that only with Liquid Performance did the water and ethanol not seperate out of gas. Enzymes Dr. Watson, SCIENCE!
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Yes, I go there. I am not sure that liquid performance really works any better than the other treatments but he highly recommends it.
 
Ive now used 3 of them Liquid Performance, Star-tron, and Sta-bil and all I can say is I've had issues when I didn't use an additive but the bikes runs about the same with any of them.

That said I also tend to follow what I'd call best practices of buying fuel. I buy my gas at reputable gas stations where the pumps don't look from the 50s and the filter isn't dripping. I don't stock pile my gas for months in the can, If I don't use it in two week it goes into my street bike, my car is a diesel. :D

Also Star-tron, and Sta-bil are sold about everywhere and even found on sale often including the marine stuff. Liquid Performance so far I've only found at the husky and KTM dealer.

Joe
 
Probably coincidence but I used Techron in my last batch of gas and promptly suffered from a clogged fuel filter and injector (ironic since it is supposed to be a cleaner). As I said...probably coincidence...but I am sticking with Startron to stabilize the fuel for now. When that's not handy I will go back to using a little bit of 2 stroke oil in my fuel (cap full to 5 gallons)
 
Wolf said:
Probably coincidence but I used Techron in my last batch of gas and promptly suffered from a clogged fuel filter and injector (ironic since it is supposed to be a cleaner). As I said...probably coincidence...but I am sticking with Startron to stabilize the fuel for now. When that's not handy I will go back to using a little bit of 2 stroke oil in my fuel (cap full to 5 gallons)
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It is a cleaner but will clean everything and then run it through your injector. So it might ahve dislodged stuff and then tried to pass it through your injector unsuccessfully.
 
BTW I have run nothing but pump gas with ethanol in all my fleet of bikes for decades with no issues. I only have one EFI bike (TE511) and it has had nothing but pump premium Chevron from day one, zero issues. :excuseme:
 
It takes a lot to clog a 449 injector. KTM's clog all the time. Cost us 10 races this year alone, including V2R
 
Motosportz said:
BTW I have run nothing but pump gas with ethanol in all my fleet of bikes for decades with no issues. I only have one EFI bike (TE511) and it has had nothing but pump premium Chevron from day one, zero issues. :excuseme:
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yea but that speaks to my best practices. We don't have Chevron stations around me but it's a reputable brand and I'm sure the pumps and tanks are moisture free and properly filtered. I think it's of moisture that gas related issues. I use it based on one bad experience that was mostly likely 1 in a 1,000 and at this point it's insurance and compared to my health insurance it's super cheep. :banana:
 
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