06-30-2012, 01:05 PM
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Ethanol laced gasoline!
Fucking shit eats rubber and plastic parts on vehicles. Oh but what do we now have a PLETHORA OF? Yep, you guessed it, rubber lines and plastic tanks!
If we had stuck with steel gas tanks and fuel lines there wouldn't be a need for this discussion but, here we are. And now the govt is mandating a raise in the level of ethanol mix. Currently it's 10% and now they want it to be 15%.
Add to this that you don't get as much mileage from ethanol mixed fuels and you just want to shoot blood from your eyeballs and have your head explode!
This shit ate through the plastic gas tank on my lawn tractor. Regular non mixed gas wouldn't have done that. A new tank is going to cost me $60.00. Fortunately I was able to do a repair by doing a half assed plastic "weld" job. I heated the crack to make it pliable and used pieces I snipped from an old plastic container (same type of material) to act as filler. I melted the pieces like a welding or brazing rod and crossed my fingers. It worked!
At least I bought myself this season without having to replace the tank. I wouldn't mind as much if it weren't an older tractor that I'm soon going to need to replace. I hate having to spend lots of money on something that is near the end of its lifespan.
Just to be safe I replaced the fuel line while I was at it along with the in-line fuel filter.
Fucking ethanol!!!!!!!!
Fucking shit eats rubber and plastic parts on vehicles. Oh but what do we now have a PLETHORA OF? Yep, you guessed it, rubber lines and plastic tanks!
If we had stuck with steel gas tanks and fuel lines there wouldn't be a need for this discussion but, here we are. And now the govt is mandating a raise in the level of ethanol mix. Currently it's 10% and now they want it to be 15%.
Add to this that you don't get as much mileage from ethanol mixed fuels and you just want to shoot blood from your eyeballs and have your head explode!
This shit ate through the plastic gas tank on my lawn tractor. Regular non mixed gas wouldn't have done that. A new tank is going to cost me $60.00. Fortunately I was able to do a repair by doing a half assed plastic "weld" job. I heated the crack to make it pliable and used pieces I snipped from an old plastic container (same type of material) to act as filler. I melted the pieces like a welding or brazing rod and crossed my fingers. It worked!
At least I bought myself this season without having to replace the tank. I wouldn't mind as much if it weren't an older tractor that I'm soon going to need to replace. I hate having to spend lots of money on something that is near the end of its lifespan.
Just to be safe I replaced the fuel line while I was at it along with the in-line fuel filter.
Fucking ethanol!!!!!!!!
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