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Is It A Cure For Ethanol Problems?

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Originally developed for the treatment of marine gas, due to the devastating effects ethanol has on marine fuel tanks and other fuel related equipment, why wouldn't this product be an asset to the old fuel systems in our cars? It's supposed to tame the effects of ethanol damage on incompatible products. Be great if it works! It's advertized to be used in almost everything. PJ

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You have to ask<span style="font-style: italic">what problems</span>? "Marine" Stabil isn't a lot different than regular stabil, it's just more concentrated. Both are designed to prevent gum, varnish, and corrosion that can be effects of old fuel and moisture attracted by the ethanol. It doesn't alter, convert, or remove the ethanol - it's still going through the fuel system, so if you've got ethanol-sensitive parts they're still going to be exposed to the ethanol. It might help but it isn't a cure-all.

An afterthought: some aluminum engine parts are prone to corrosion due to direct contact with the ethanol and not moisture (apparently). Some people have had a lot of success warding off or at least lessening the effects of ethanol by adding seafoam and/or marvel mystery oil to their fuel.
 
Allot of places 'round here are advertising "no ethanol in our fuel". Folks are catching onand not carring it. Start telling your local staion (small) that you won't buy from the if they sell that crap.
 
I guess we're lucky here too. Probably 10-20% of our local stations advertise No Ethanol or at least have it as an alternative. Usually about 10-15 cents more than the E10 crap that almost killed my nearly new lawn mower. I hear some parts of the country that's just not allowed.
 
Interesting. I've run "up to 10% ethanol" for over 15 years and I've never seen any problems with anything.
 
aerog said:
Interesting. I've run "up to 10% ethanol" for over 15 years and I've never seen any problems with anything.
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It does leave a weird deposit in tanks and milage suffered, but otherwise everything seems o.k. I did have a rubber check valve in a motorcraft carb swell up, but that might also be from straigh Seafoam in it for a few months.

I don't buy the stuff unless I have to and my car never sits long. It will sit July-Sep though.
 
When I'm pulling a car trailer or even worse, a box trailer with my truck, I'll lose 2 to 3 MPG when I have to use Ethanol impregnated gas. I hate the stuff and fortunately, around here, there's not much of it around.
 
Ethanol in fuel does cause problems with small engines such as those used in lawn mowers, snow throwers and the like. It is also mandated for SE Wisconsin by state law.

The positive effect that such use of corn-based additives in fuel has meant that the price of corn has risen and has made some food and beverage companies to revert to using sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup in their products, Snapple being a case in point. HFCS is evil stuff.
 
Ethanol and the price of corn might be one reason, but the push for non HFCS has been going on for a long time. There's a whole group of "enthusiasts" (for lack of a better description) that post online where Coke products made with sugar are being sold. Costco was selling it for awhile and people were buying the stuff up like crazy. Most of it is from Mexico and points south. I had a couple of coke products in the Caribbean last week that were from El Salvador, non HFCS.

I prefer sugar-sweetened Root Beer made in Bar Harbor, Maine though. The best drink in the world. :smile:
 
In some of the local grocery stores you can find Coke, in glass bottles no less, in the "Ethnic" food aisle right along with many other treats from south of our border. That stuff is made with real sugar. But you can't find it in the soda aisle.
 
Seafoam also negates the effects of ethanol. Plus that stuff is magical! I swear if you opened a can of Seafoam and dumped it on your hood, it would fix something:smile:
 
Some times you can get lucky and find pepsi and mt dew throwback made with real sugar which tastes so much better than the normal gack. Coke also does the same thing in smaller amounts around easter.

I'm glad i'm still able to get non contaminated fuel around here even after ND had a major push to get ethanol into all gas. Now that my main car is diesel I'm no longer forced to support the corn lobby every time I fill up and finding the non ethanol fuel is fairly easy if you know where to look for it when the MG needs gas.
 
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