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Ethanol in the Northeast
Posted By: Walter Kaprielian
Date: Thursday, 28 October 2004, at 10:44 p.m.
My local marina owner Jeff Bridges has a 1970 31 Bahia Mar with Gas engines. I took my 20 Bahia Mar to him for work when I got it a few years back.
I saw him today and he asked me if I was having any fuel problems with my boat as mine is a 69, the same vintage as his. I said yes, seems I have been finding more residue than I like in the fuel filter and have to change them often. He said he thinks the 10% Ethanol in our fuel is having a strange effect with the epoxy in his tank as he has had to redo his heads, his carbs, his hoses, and his fuel looks much darker than it should. Shortly after all that work,the engines and fuel systems are all gummed up again.Strangely, I felt that way about the color of my fuel, I've had my carbs rebuilt twice in one season, and countless fuel filter changes.
He doesn't know what to do at this point short of rip out the fiberglass tank and replace it with aluminum. I've always preferred glass over aluminum.
Have any of you had a reaction similar, or even heard about an ethanol fiberglass reaction?
Walter
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