NICE! That's what I needed back in my airboatin days. LOLI just walk out the house door and then around the corner of the hangar..
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At my small local airport, its self serve and you need a credit card.Cash is king ! Just take your cans and jugs, show up . I'd planned on calling ahead. There are at least 3(these I'm aware of) small airports within 20 miles of me . A somewhat larger one at the 40 mile mark,
Kankakee airport .
Thanks bud thats good to know I appreciate it!If you put av gas directly in your tank the airport could get in deep s#!t. You can take a container and tell them it is for your race car or gas equipment (anything that doesn't drive on the road).
I couldn't get my 10:1 340 to run on anything less than 92 octane without pinging. We don't have a source of high octane non-ethanol here so I use premium pump gas (with ethanol) and use a product call Carb Defender (from Jegs) to bind the ethanol to protect the carbs (3 different cars). I was having problems up until then and had it recommended by Herb McCandless at one of his seminars at Carlisle maybe 8 years ago - no problems since.
I hope never to spend a dollar in California I left Illinois because it's not far behind. Then we had a economic dump in 2008 in about the third of Illinois moved over here to Indiana and they're going to screw us up with the crooks they like to vote four. They should stay at home and fix their mess they made over there. Government employee pensions primarily I'll stay off of politics thank you.At my small local airport, its self serve and you need a credit card.
I never really tried for avgas in california, but when i first tried here, a guy came by and helped me figure out what i had to do. He told me to just plug in my license plate number for the planes tail number. Worked like a champ. I told him, "california wont let you get away with that." His response? "F#&k california!"
Agree. I drive up to the avgas pump with a couple old racing gas five gallon cans. (Diesel pickup, they know its not going in that!)Thanks bud thats good to know I appreciate it!
were the problems you were having ethanol related? The pinging? Or was there a different problem related to the ethanol?If you put av gas directly in your tank the airport could get in deep s#!t. You can take a container and tell them it is for your race car or gas equipment (anything that doesn't drive on the road).
I couldn't get my 10:1 340 to run on anything less than 92 octane without pinging. We don't have a source of high octane non-ethanol here so I use premium pump gas (with ethanol) and use a product call Carb Defender (from Jegs) to bind the ethanol to protect the carbs (3 different cars). I was having problems up until then and had it recommended by Herb McCandless at one of his seminars at Carlisle maybe 8 years ago - no problems since.
Is this it? Carb Defender - Ethanol Fuel Additive - 10 oz. BottleTwo problems with separate but related causes.
The ethanol issue goes like this: ethanol attracts and binds with water (hydrophyllic). The gas left in your fuel bowls (which in my case can sit for a month or two at a time) evaporates because the fuel bowl is vented. The Gasoline evaporates first because it is more volatile than ethanol, and when the factories all went to EFI and a sealed fuel system, the oil companies took the anti- evaporation fuel stabilizers out of the mix. This leaves ethanol in there last with the water that is attached to it. The result is corrosion and deposits in the bowl and when the car starts up it is in every orifice that the fuel bowl feeds (jets, metering rods, etc). What the Carb Defender does is chemically fills the receptors in the ethanol to keep it from holding the water. I'm not a chemist. This is the way Herb McCandless explained it at the seminar (he's not a chemist either). What I know is that my carbs cleaned out and ran smoother over a couple months, after a few years of getting worse and worse.
The ping came from insufficient octane rating in the non-ethanol 87 octane gas I tried to avoid the ethanol.
So now my gas (premium with ethanol) is up to snuff from any good gas station as far as octane goes, and the Carb Defender deals with the potential bad consequences in a carbed motor on ethanol.
Thanks bud im gonna have to pick some of that up. That's the same compression I have so that makes me feel good about running premium.That's it - I put half a bottle in the tank and then 10-13 gallons of premium gas with 10% ethanol.
My 340 has factory 10.5 to 1 style pistons (.040 over but with permatex blue gaskets that are thicker than stock) that we figured for 10 to 1 when it was built 18 years ago. I've put 20,000 miles on it in its current configuration with the crossram in the last 12 years.
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