Don't Use E15 Gas

GlenT

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This may be old news but I think it is important enough to post again:
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I have had trouble with the diaphrams in my 630 automatic fuel shutoff and we can expect many more problems with our steel fuel tanks, steel fuel tanks, cast iron carburetors, and gaskets with E15. I can't see why we need E15 with the current glut of oil from North Dakota and Canada.
 
All it"s doing is cleaning out the crud that built up in your tanks from using regular gas. Despite the wishes of some, the eth debate will never end. Chicken little rises again.
 
(quoted from post at 09:27:34 11/19/13) All it"s doing is cleaning out the crud that built up in your tanks from using regular gas. Despite the wishes of some, the eth debate will never end. Chicken little rises again.

Exactly. If the ethanol IS causing problems, it is because it was blended with gasoline of inferior quality or is way beyond its shelf life.
 
Ethanol is a water absorbing detergent that works well for anyone directly or indirectly making money off of it. For the rest of us, not so much.
 
If it was only the reduced gas mileage with E10 or worse yet, E15, I could live with that but to put junk in the gas to wreck my old tractors and old cars is insane.
 
We sure thought it was funny when the Beverly Hillbillies poured Granny's white lightening in the tank of that old truck though didn't we?
 
it"s no lesser a fuel than the tractor fuel, its just that no one is having experience with the fuels of yesterday. We always kept extra plugs for the old B and was always cleaning up fouled ones on both tractor fuel and kerosene. The fuel required at least 180 degrees temperature before you could change over. Always draining the carb sending gas to get it started...clearing cylinders you name it. I even remember heating the plugs with a propane torch in the winter. Once going we seldom shut the B off during the work day, even remember letting it idle during lunch.
 
In case you don't remember, regular gas can destroy diaphragms, too. Most diaphragms go bad because of one of two things: either they are old or were improperly installed. As far as ethanol absorbing moisture it is true but only to a point. It only absorbs what is already in the gas. Remember using "Heet" or some such other product to keep your fuel lines from freezing in the winter time? That is nothing but METHANOL which is MUCH more harmful than ethanol will ever be. It DOES corrode in and of itself. Ethanol absorbs the moisture that is ALREADY in your gas and allows it to be burned and gotten OUT of your fuel system so it DOESN'T cause rust and/or corrosion. Most of the propaganda put out on these things are from the oil and/or additive companies who are only preying on the "fears" of people. Ethanol is a good product that I have used for over 35 years with no problems whatsover. It has been used on my farm in everything from a chain saw, a parade tractor to hard working farm tractors. No problems whatsoever in 35 years. NONE. In fact, I have LESS fuel problems now. Mike
 
Mike: I totally agree...many folks must never have experienced the difficulties of the yesterdays. Just getting a lot of the equipment fired up was a major problem...little on keeping it going..the old 6 volt starting systems....gummed up engines from non detergent oil.....I'll take todays standards by any means...
 
I my area, the premium gasoline contains no ethanol.
I e-mail"d three of the oil companies with retail stations in my immediate area and they all replied, confirming that their premium is ethanol-free.
I have switched all of my engines except the daily drivers to premium for this reason.

I think there is truth to the statements about problems with ethanol. The manuals that came with two new small-engine powered products I bought recently state that fuels with higher than E10 should NOT be used, and they state that the shelf-life of ethanol-based fuels is very short !

Cheers,
JGC
 
I buy gas without ethonal at a FS station in Monticello. I add a small amount of oil to it. It smells like gas and stays that way for a long time.
 
Hi Frank, I found some ethanol free gas at the Fleet Farm station in Cambridge. Here is a useful link to stations selling the ethanol free gas in MN:
http://pure-gas.org/index.jsp?stateprov=MN
 
It seems some people want to blame fuel problems on ethanol. They seem to forget we had these problems long before ethanol came along. I have been using ethanol for 38 years and have not had any real problems on my tractors, trucks, chainsaws, mowers. Oh yeah, my battery went dead the other week. Could this be due to ethanol in my gas?
 

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