<VV> The new gas and accelerator pumps

Ron ronh at owt.com
Sat Mar 7 14:55:23 EST 2009


No, the question is, "Where can we buy some ethanol resistant accelerator 
cups?"
RonH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "FrankCB" <frankcb at aol.com>
To: "Grant Young" <gyoungwolf at earthlink.net>; <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 11:16 AM
Subject: Re: <VV> The new gas and accelerator pumps


> So where or how do we find gas that has NO ethanol???
>     Frank "wonderingly" Burkhard
>
> In a message dated 03/07/09 11:49:54 Eastern Standard Time, 
> gyoungwolf at earthlink.net writes:
> I don't think it is totally coincidental that I spoke with someone last 
> night who ordered a dozen new accelerator pump cups (because his 4 were 
> toast after about a year) and then saw an article in today's newspaper 
> that we are probably going to start seeing up to 15% ethanol in gasoline 
> "in spite of auto and fuel systems parts manufacturers concerns that it is 
> already causing fuel system parts to deteriorate with only up to 10%" (not 
> to mention that our steaks will also get more expensive :-). And, "lack of 
> a good pump squirt' is starting to be the complaint of many Corvair 
> owners, even within a year or so of a rebuild. And, the less the car is 
> used, the sooner the problem seems to occur. Many have probably heard 
> about the problem with marine carburetors failing due to being clogged 
> with fuel line debris and moisture problems as well as the complete 
> failure of fiberglass gas tanks. This is not an attempt to start a thread 
> or conspiracy theory, just a word to the wise.
> The Carbmeister
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