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					Originally Posted by  jasoncooperpcola
					 
				 
				There is a Parade station about a mile and a half from my house. Bought 2.5 gallons at $3.95 a gallon for the pressure washer and lawnmower. I spent friday night cleaning carbs on both and now they run like new! The pressure washer had a thick black goo in the fuel hose that ran into the bowl jets needle and flowed out the intake into the air filter. This crap was like tar. Hose deterioration? 
			
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 Ethanol eats older hoses and you get that nasty black crap in your carbs. I had to rebuild the carbs on my old merc because of that very issue.