<VV> Ethanol

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Fri Oct 15 18:18:03 EDT 2010


Did you install an inline fuel filter?
Tony Hansen

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 8:57 PM, <Mikeamauro at aol.com> wrote:

> "...I would like to put to bed the fears of using E10 in Corvairs..."
>
>
> Sorry, but for me the fear is real, and the effects known: as soon as  I
> could no longer readily obtain non-ethanol fuel, I began to have problems
> with
>  blocked carb idle circuits. The palliative solution was to, about weekly,
> remove the idle mixture screws and blow carb cleaner and compressed air
> into the  screw ports. Now, over the past year or so, since I began
> treating
> all fuel used  with Marine StaBil for Ethonol Fuels, the blocked passage
> problem has gone  completely away... same car, same carbs, same ethanol
> fuel; the
> only difference  is the StaBil treatment. If there are folks out there
> using ethanol fuel with no  problems, then God bless you; I hope your good
> fortune continues.
>
> Mike Mauro (in humid Florida)
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