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Originally Posted by VoltsFRS2013
Thank you soo much!
A question about the premium gas thing --
my dad is a bit on the cheaper side and is going to insist on putting normal fuel in it (we already do this for our 2007 Honda Odyssey Touring that is meant to heave premium in it)
Will it hurt it to go back and forth? it's hard to reason with him
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It's important to use hi test gas because of the relatively high compression ratio. It will run on mid grade but the engine will pull timing, thus less power.
The manual says use premium (hi-test) only, and that's what it says on the filler cap.
Ask your dad, back when he might have had a 1957 Chevrolet, with a 283 cu in engine, with 2 4 barrel carburetors, if he would have used tractor gas (regular) in it ..... ??
Or, if he would have turned the distributor 3 degrees counterclockwise on his old stovebolt blue flame six.
If that don't convince him ....... tell him ol humfrz said that this engine isn't
his dad's old Ford flathead V-8 ...... that would burn anything that would pour into the gas tank.
Yep, old men can be hard to reason with fer sure ...... if the above don't work ....... just tell him that ol humfrz, from the forum, said just to use premium all the time......
humfrz