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Generator Fuel Guide: Store It Right, Start Every Time
The power goes out at 3 a.m. The air conditioner shuts off, the house starts warming up, and you’re counting on the generator you bought for exactly...
Small Equipment and Generators
8 min read
5 Things We Do to Destroy Our Engines and How to Remedy Our Errors
An overheated engine fails fast. Coolant boils, gaskets blow, blocks crack — the damage is loud, immediate, and obvious. But the slower kinds of...
7 min read
Fuel Additives: What Works, What Doesn't, and How to Know the Difference
You've been putting the same grade of gas in your car for years, doing everything the manual says, and something still feels off. The engine doesn't...
4 min read
Accidentally mixing gasoline and diesel fuel - What happens then?
Here are a couple of scenarios we've come across. Someone calls us at the Bell office and starts to describe a situation where they had a diesel...
4 min read
Getting Your Yard Equipment Ready for Summer
Unless you live somewhere like Florida (not that there’s anything wrong with that), you’ve probably had your small engines - lawnmowers, gas-powered...
2 min read
How to Winterize a Diesel Engine
In cases where diesel engines are going to be inactive for stretches during the winter, special steps need to be taken to prepare them. Most...
3 min read
Lawnmower Care
Would you be surprised if you were told that the average American knows less about lawn care than their parents did? A 2016 survey by the National...
4 min read
Common fuel-related small engine problems
Many kinds of motorcycles, scooters, ATVs, and go-karts have something in common with lawn mowers, generators and many other smaller machines –...
3 min read
Small Engine Fuel Stabilizers: what you need (and don't need)
We’re pushing now twelve years since the revolutionary widespread influx of ethanol in our nation’s gasoline supply. Or is it thirteen? In reality,...
2 min read
Can I Use Last Year's Gas in My Generator?
Generator gas tends to be out-of-sight-out-of-mind. We don’t care about it until there’s a real possibility that we’ll have to fire the generator up,...