Syn fuel may be your best bet but I also have complete faith in fuel plus SeaFoam.
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When I drain the fuel systems and carbs completely I get a good start months or even years later. I find the older small engines made before "emissions" and other improvements all tolerate older gas no problem (older gas with a gulp of Seafoam). Any small engine made in the last 15 or so years is super finicky in my experience.
I have a 25-30 Y/O genny that was drained and sat for at least 15 years. Put it on the bench, did an oil change and inspection. Fresh starter battery and fresh gas, fired right up. Drained everything and slept comfortably knowing the hum of my genny will attract scavengers within range following the great pre election grid outage.
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I never quite figured out why the sexual urge of men and women differ so much. And I never have figured out the whole Venus and Mars thing. I have never figured out why men think with their head and women with their heart.
FOR EXAMPLE: One evening last week, my wife and I were getting into bed. Well, the passion starts to heat up, and she eventually says "I don't feel like it, I just want you to hold me."
I said "WHAT??!! What was that?!"
So she says the words that every husband on the planet dreads to hear... "You're just not in touch with my emotional needs as a woman enough for me to satisfy your physical needs as a man." She responded to my puzzled look by saying, "Can't you just love me for who I am and not what I do for you in the bedroom?" Realizing that nothing was going to happen that night, I went to sleep.
The very next day I opted to take the day off of work to spend time with her. We went out to a nice lunch and then went shopping at a big, big unnamed department store. I walked around with her while she tried on several very expensive outfits. She couldn't decide which one to take so I told her we'd just buy them all. She wanted new shoes to compliment her new clothes, so I said let’s get a pair for each outfit. We went onto the jewelry department where she picked out pair of diamond earrings. Let me tell you...she was so excited. She must have thought I was one wave short of a shipwreck. I started to think she was testing me because she asked for a tennis bracelet when she doesn't even know how to play tennis. I think I threw her for a loop when I said, "That's fine, honey." She was almost nearing sexual satisfaction from all of the excitement.
Smiling with excited anticipation she finally said, "I think this is all dear, let's go to the cashier." I could hardly contain myself when I blurted out, "No honey, I don't feel like it." Her face just went completely blank as her jaw dropped with a baffled----WHAT?" I then said "honey, I just want you to HOLD this stuff for a while. You're just not in touch with my financial means as a man enough for me to satisfy your shopping needs as a woman." And just when she had this look like she was going to kill me, I added, "Why can't you just love me for who I am and not for the things I buy you?"
Apparently I'm not having sex tonight either. Women......!
Expecting a woman to think and behave like a man is about as practical as expecting a man to think and behave like a penguin. Society tells us men and women are the same which the majority accept without question, while at the same time we all inherently know they're different, just like exemplified in the the above. Sure it's funny, but also has one foot in the "all the same" camp, with other foot in the "different" camp. Frustration lies in one camp, you decide.
Did an oil change this morning on the family hauler. I was surprised by the amount of oil caught in the catch can that I installed only 3000 kms ago. Honestly thought maybe 2-3 table spoons worth of oil would have been caught. Should have installed one years ago, especially with this engine being direct injection.
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^ Especially important in a DI engine.
Been contemplating catch cans on both my 3.5eb f150 and the 1.5eb bronco sport
Pros and cons?
Do they need to be model and engine specific.
Would ford warrenty care?
There is absolutely no con to using one.
Another upside that hasn't been mentioned, once you have a baseline of how much oil it's catching, switch to a heavier oil (10w30 syn) and you can monitor difference a heavier oil makes. From what we are seeing, the average amount of oil accumulating in the can is reduced by 60%+ (in some it reduced to almost zero).
IMO the amount captured is a comment on the effectiveness of the the PCV system, not the lubrication system. I'd be making oil selection based on lube requirements and whatever the catch can captures is a cost of doing business. Oil flow is what's needed to lube. Oil pressure is easy to measure, oil flow isn't. Oil pressure is a proxy for oil flow. if you have pressure flow is assumed. You can get pressure against a blocked passage. The gauge will be happy, the component being starved not so much.
Normal oil pressure in my 1UZ is 4psi at idle, but the oiling system is adequately flowing. If I pull the valve covers one head is varnished, the other clean simply because the PCV is drawing from only one head.