Yup, I remember those days, it took awhile for the manufacturers to come up with ethanol proof rubbers. I find that strange, ethanol has been used in dry-gas, especially in 2 stroke engines, for years.
Anyway the other strange thing I found was a brown-sugar like substance that would be left when the ethanol fuel evaporated. I *think* its really caused by suspended water and the impurities in the water. Seafoam cured that completely. I used Sta-bil but found that the original red formula clots, it'll get little dots where it coagulates. They float around and find the passages in the carb and plug 'em. You can see it in an old open bottle of Sta-bil. I think its Sta-bil reacting with air. What do you use to stabilize your fuel stabilizer? Seafoam doesn't do that. Supposedly Sta-bil Marine which is green, doesn't do it either. I put some in the equipment at camp last year, we'll see in a month how it worked out. -Curt Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 17:08:23 -0400 From: "Scott Ritchey" <ritche...@nc.rr.com> To: "'Mercedes Discussion List'" <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Subject: Re: [MBZ] ULSD now Ethanol Message-ID: <8CF9B81978844318BAB80E733BDEE1DF@ScottPC> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I think ethanol caused problems with several of my small 2-cycle machines. The gas cap on my chain saw swelled to the point it took a tool to remove or install it. I since got a replacement (loser fit-revised design) which solved that problem. The diaphragms in 2-cycle carburetors seem to get so stiff so you have to run them at part choke a for a long time (or constantly) to keep them running. I've had the fuel lines in two older leaf blowers disintegrate. I can't prove this is ethanol-caused but that's when it started. I do use Sta-bil in the late fall (when the gas may not get used soon) so maybe I should try Sea Foam. Scott _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
