Military-Vehicles: RE: [MV] Ethanol vs fuel pumps

RE: [MV] Ethanol vs fuel pumps

DOConnor@zoomit.sikorsky.com
3 SEP 97 18:33:20 EDT

I don't know if the gas we have here in CT is similar to what you're talking
about or just the next worse kind. It has "MTBE" in it and some other things
too and is being mandated for urban and high smog areas now nationwide by the
EPA. Our last governor [Lowell Weicker] thought it would be a great political
idea to "volunteer" our state to use it all the time as a test for the rest of
the country. He's gone but the gas isn't and it wrecks even modern fuel
systems.
Example: the wife's '93 Taurus wagon went to Ford 3 times with no
power/stalling/dies in road. Their answer was "plugged injectors" which when
cleaned ran fine for 2 months then back again. A friend's Bronco had the same
problem and after similar trips to Ford decided to replace the entire fuel
suystem except tank including the hard plastic fuel line from tank to fuel
rail. Problem solved! The "new formula gas" was softening/eating the plastic
and using it to plug the injectors!
This isn't limited to the Fords I know but everything. You can't even leave
gas in a small engine for over two weeks because it eats things (like rubber
and plastic), varnishes carb passages closed almost as you watch and then you
have to do an overhaul and replace the gas just to start the tractor to mow the
lawn! I had to prime a carb and the plastic cup I used melted in my hand after
the primary bowl was filled and I poured more in to do the secondary bowl!! Now
we only fill the tanks enough to get the job done and then run the small
engines dry before putting them away. The cars & trucks have to be started and
run every week or it's a big headache. Hope the rest of you without this stuff
don't have it anytime soon.

Good Luck,
Dennis
Naugatuck, CT, USA

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