ORIGINAL: Flyboy Dave
I fried a K&B .61 this season using some old fuel fuel, it was pink....it had
turned brown. I used it by mistake. You can believe it or not....your choice.
I had two buddies there watching my Ultra Stick fly. I noticed there wasn't
a smoke trail from the engine....I said it outloud. Before I throttled back to
land and richen up the mixture (I thought) the engine died. When I retrieved
the plane it was devoid of compression.
I haven't taken the engine apart, been busy....I just put another engine in
the plane.
My recommendation....dump the fuel.
Been there....done that.
BTW....I'm not a "fuel retailer".
Kind of reminds me of the old oil change commercials, "you can pay me now or pay me later". My flying time is too little, and engines too expensive, even the cheaper ones, to be bothered trying to reuse old fuel rather than forking up $15-20 for a new gallon.
