Two things - 1) Those emails floating around about the shi**y gas that's out there, believe them 2) Sea Foam works. I will never travel far from home without having Sea Foam in my saddlebags to add a few ounces to when I do an out of town fill up. No, I do not work for Sea Foam. Here's what happened.

On Sunday, I took an early morning meet friends for breakfast ride and visit to a dealer 90 miles away or so. On the way back, about 50 miles from home, I stopped for Texaco gas. Within 15 seconds of restarting my motorcycle it began smoking, missing and rattling valves but no check engine light, and normal oil pressure so I decided to try and nurse it home.

Once home and turned off, it would not restart and seemed not even close to wanting to start. I checked to see if any codes had been "thrown" but "none" was all I saw with each test. Yesterday, I siphoned just about 5 gallons of gas out but prior to that I did a small sample by filling a quart glass jar. After it settled, there was this milky looking "mess" in the bottom of the jar.

Today I purchased 16oz of Sea Foam and added a few ounces to 3 gallons of new Shell gas. I cranked the bike over and it didn't respond and sounded like it had prior. After cranking for a while, I decided to jack the throttle 4-5 times and it popped and started. White smoke poured from the exhaust but it cleared up in 5-10 seconds or so. I did a 10 mile ride and bike seems back to normal. Been driving 46 years and never had an experience with bad gas.

 

Glad it's back to normal

 

Will keep your post in mind but honestly I have only bought bad gas that I know of just once. Usually if gas goes bad around my house it is from sitting.

 

Seafoam is some good stuff, have it in my shop and use it quite often,,, they make some other great products as well.

One can get bad gas if the water level alarm is ignored by the station.

 

Glad to hear the sea foam got you fixed up.

 

I filled up the car once and got a load of crap. Had to pull the tank and carb to flush it all out. Looked like just what you described.

 

What was the name of the gastation? Try to fuel at well known places that get a lot of traffic, thus the fuel is fresher.

Not too many folks are using Supreme gas these days so it sits for a long time in the tanks.

 

What? I was looking at the girl with the bow.

 

I also keep a can of this stuff and have had very similar results treating E10 issues....course this is usually an issue with larger fuel tanks.

http://mystarbrite.com/startron/

 

Been using it for years. Best stuff out there.