yankeeslover
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heres my story... i do not clean my own carbs as i am the least handy person on this planet... so every year i have a local mechanic winterize my sxr700 for $100.00.. heres my question.. i had sled done 2nd week of november.. it has now been alittle over six weeks since my carbs were cleaned.. living in upstate NY i never figured i would still be snowless right now, anyways, every two weeks i have started sled up and let it run for a good 10-15 minutes at a time until the coolant started flowing warm-get the engine nice and warm and the gas flowing..this was every two weeks on the mark.... how long can i safely do this without having this new ethanol gas plug up and varnish my bowls? i hate to pay again to have my carbs cleaned.... i only had like 3 gallons of 89 octane gas in sled.. last night i put 4 gallons of fresh premium gas in the sled and i did put some of that STARTRON in the tank last night..hoping that the startron may prevent the gas from going bad for the next couple weeks..... sled has started fine(5 pulls last night) and it idles perfect.... is six weeks enough time for that gas to go bad? should i be worried? and will that startron i put in last night help clean things out? I just hate to shell out another 100.00 bucks to have carbs cleaned again... and no, i cant do myself..LOL thanks much