Twenty years ago I was working at a John Dealership that handled a lot of lawn mowers. At that time John Deere"s year end was on Nov. 30th. You could count on a semi load or two of new mowers just right before that. They counted them as sold as soon as the dealer was invoiced for them. We had a slow time in the shop that winter so we setup all of the lawn mowers and stored them in the store"s warehouse. Gas had just started having alcohol added. We did not even think about it going stale over the winter. The mowers that sold in the spring where fine. Then about the first of June we started having trouble getting them to start. We found that the gas had gone to varnish on just about fifty new lawn mowers. We removed the carbs and fuel tanks on the first ten or so and cleaned them. This was costing the dealership quite a bit in shop time. We had a hardware supplier that called on us. He saw the trouble we where having. His company sold "Seafoam". He gave us a case to try. We would drain the fuel tank. Then replace the old fuel with a gallon of new gas with a whole can of Seafoam in it. Then we would remove the spark plugs and crank the motor until we could smell the Seafoam at the plug hole. We then would let them set for a day or two. We never had to take one carb. apart after that on those new mowers. After that every shop that I have worked at has used it when setting up new small motors. Lawn mowers, water pumps, chain saws, string trimmers, etc. I am a firm believer in using it in fuel systems. I have not used it in the oil though.
As for Buickdeere. If what he is using is working for him, GREAT. I just know that Seafoam has saved me a lot of headaches on small motors.
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