"I know of issues..." Respectfully, you don't. You have HEARD of issues, which are only GUESSES as to what the actual cause is.
Ethanol fuel is used as a convenient scapegoat by mechanics for all sorts of problems.
Taryl Fixes All on youtube did an experiment over a year and a half using 10 brand new identical lawnmower engines, 10 identical brand new gas cans. One can had plain 87 octane 10% ethanol, one had premium fuel, one had the $24 a gallon "never goes bad" gas in it, and the rest had 87 octane 10% ethanol fuel with various snake oil products in them. At the beginning of each month, each engine was started and run to see which gas would go "bad" first.
By the end of the experiment most of the engines were still running, including the engine with the UNTREATED 87 octane. I think 3 engines eventually failed to start, ALL were using "treated" gasoline.
Long story short these old tractors are from a time when fuel was poor quality. They don't much care what they're fed, and they will just run and run and run.
My claim to fame is the 7 year old gasoline in my Farmall Super H. Seriously that tractor sat and was only started a couple of times a year and NEVER had any gas put in it for SEVEN years. It was 87 octane 10% ethanol fuel, which eventually ran out. Which reminds me, I really need to start that tractor up and run it. I don't think I've touched it since before Dad died...
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