Posted by MarkB_MI on June 04, 2012 at 02:22:31 from (166.203.31.16):
In Reply to: Lead additive posted by Jerry Hrenchir on June 03, 2012 at 19:18:59:
The only place you can buy tetraethyl lead is at your local airport. Look for the pump that says "100LL". And it probably won't be for sale there in a few years.
As stated before, we now know have enough experience with unleaded fuel in old engines to know that most of the fears about valve problems were unwarranted. Lead was taken out of gasoline in 1995, yet there are plenty of old tractors running just fine 17 years later. It's not a bad idea to run a tank or two of 100LL through your tractor after a valve job to build up lead deposits, but other than that don't worry about it.
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