Does any 'light oil' act as a stabilizer?

[addyguy]

Maybe a silly question, but here goes...

There are specific products that are 'fuel stabilizers', like Stabil. For the most part, AFAIK, they are mainly very light oils, like 2-cycle oils would be.

Question: does any 'light oil product', like MMO, 2-cycle, ATF, Seafoam, when added to the gas, have a stabilizing effect?

Reason: parking my truck for 3-4 months. Instead of buying a bottle of fuel stabilizer, I'm thinking of dumping some cheap ATF I have in the gas to lube the fuel system. Will it work?

 

[Donald]

Stabilizer is much cheaper than any hassle you may end up with by going cheap. But 3-4 months is not a big deal.

 

[Quest]

light oil product, by it's very own self, typically does not have any anti-oxidating properties to make it a stabiliser of any kind.

in the case of fuel-stabiliser, it's the antioxidants that gets the job done:

(ref Mola's posting here):

https://bobistheoilguy.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=269211

Bottomline: don't get duped into believing certain light-oil based products come with the kind of potency to deal with anti-oxidation properties.

Just purchase the right product for the job and be over with it.


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