Did You Know That Ethenol in Gasoline Will Ruin Your Engine?
@awesomehorizons (884)
United States
December 31, 2006 12:05pm CST
It's true! Ethenol, an additive that gas companies use to make gasoline go further, will shrink the gaskets in your engine and will eventually blow your engine.
Did you know that if you are at a gas station pumping gas in your automobile and a fuel tanker happens to be delivering at the same time it would be better to go to another gas station if at all possible?
Here's why: when the fuel tanker is unloading fuel into the tanks ALL of the additives and junk are being stirred up into the gas again, all those additives that are harmful to your engine that is :O
It's better to get your gas at least one half hour after a delivery has been made to give all those additives time to settle at the bottom of the tank again.
Or better yet, find out if the gas station you buy your gas from uses Ethenol as an additive. They have to disclose it to you if you ask them;)
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@thundercat (505)
• United States
31 Dec 06
They now make gasoline for cars that is 85% ethanol and 15% gas. Its called E85 and several American car manufacturers are producing cars that can run on pure gas or gas ethanol mixtures up to E85. If the ethanol really did this to those new engines then there would already be problems since this kind of gas is currently being used and tested in the central US.
@awesomehorizons (884)
• United States
1 Jan 07
I will be more specific. Ethanol is the problem for any automobile engine that has rubber valve guides and rubber gaskets.
There are rubber valve guides and rubber gaskets in the engines that shrink with the use of Ethanol. Once the valve guides and gaskets shrink they leak and cause damage to the engine causing the engine to have to be rebuilt or replaced.
The new E85 will be worse for all automobiles that have rubber valve guides and rubber gaskets in the engines.
When a fuel tanker takes a load of Ethanol to a fuel plant or a service station the rubber gaskets shrink in the trailer and the hoses and have to be stretched out after each load or the tanker trailer and hoses will leak.
On a smaller scale the rubber valve guides and rubber gaskets in an automobile shrink with time because the gasoline is not 100% Ethanol.
When everyone starts using the E85 gasoline, and they will be forced to use it eventually, then all of the automobiles that have rubber valve guides and rubber gaskets will have problems even sooner and will have to have the engine rebuilt or replaced more often.
Then the automobile manufacturers and automobile mechanics will flourish with business. What a concept ... yes?
@thundercat (505)
• United States
1 Jan 07
Do the new engines that are being built to burn E85 contain rubber gaskets that are possible problems, or have they developed a synthetic to make the gaskets out of to counteract this problem?
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@awesomehorizons (884)
• United States
2 Jan 07
I don't know what the automobile manufacturers are doing or what changes they are making to counteract the fuel problem to automobile engines.
Would you be willing to find out and let me know? I have the knowledge on what the fuel/gasoline does to engines but not what automobile manufacturers are doing.
