RE: Boat Motor Question
IMHO... ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS pull the fuel line off the motor and run all the gas out of the carb before you store it - even for a week, even for overnight. I didn't do it one time, and putting her in the garage for what I had planned would be a week turned into 3 months. Two years later, I'm just now getting her to start as easily as she once did - (2nd pull, no matter how cold it is). Ethanol is wreaking havoc with boat motors. We have a Center Console with twin Yamaha 225's and we put fuel additives in and change fuel filters every 50 hrs. My dealer tells me yamaha and mercury (among others) are pulling their hair out because their motors are just not designed to run on this crap.
I'm also on a kick right now of running high test gas in my 25 evinrude- seems to run much better. (hope it's not damaging anything!)