I have heard good things about Startron but haven't tried it yet. Basicly the same thing, also heard good things about Lucas fuel treatment. Not sure but I think Seafoam was the first that advertised battling E fuels, but remember, all fuels have had issues. Long before E fuels came out, Gumout was sold by the case to remove varnish buildup from gasoline !!
Oh yeah. I used Stabil Marine for years in all my gas cans then I had some go bad and ended up cleaning carburetors. I ask my wife what she put in them and she said same cans as always. I checked the cans and they both smelled like varnish. That’s when I became a Seafoam guy. I didn’t think I mentioned I never stopped using Seafoam I just added Startron. They both work differently and it was something to try. I haven’t decarbed in a while and I’m trying a can of Mercury power tune since reading a lot of google things about it.
Last time I tried CRC Marine Tune Up and Decarbonizer. It was recommended buy a guy that gave me a bunch of advice walking me through the rebuilding of my carburetors.
It worked great but not much different than Seafoam decarbing.
I had never decarbed an outboard and did it on a lake. Since I was told when I finished it was important to run it at wot a while.
It was a week day and I don’t think I saw anyone else there thank goodness. I pulled up into an out of the way spot in some reeds. Pulled the cowling and keeping the motor at the suggested rpms started to spray it in the three carburetors. I’d spray it in one until it started sputtering and I’d have to raise the rpms to keep it running then it would recover and I did the next carburetor. Kept this up until I used almost the whole can.
About a quarter of the way though it started smoking. By the time I got finished it was smoking like a train. I looked up and couldn’t see a thing around me. There was no wind so the smoke hung out.
I killed the motor to let it sit a while like I was instructed. I’m sitting there worried someone is going to report a fire.
After a few minutes I pulled the rope and hit the main lake and went from one end to the other of the small lake several times. I kept looking over in those reeds and smoke is still lingering.
At first it ran rough and did everything but backfire. I never let off the throttle wondering what I had done to my motor.
I started letting off and it let out a hiccup while slowing down.
I opened it back up and said dog gone it (with different words) Run or blow up. A minute later it starting smoothing our and making the boat begin to skip a little to the point I had to keep steering to keep it straight.
That’s my second long story for the night I got to go finish the last spot of sap clean up on one side of the cover so I can stop until tomorrow.
Good job on that young man!
