It's not the ethanol directly that does the damage it's the water that it absorbs - yes once more water is the enemy. Best tank for biofuel is polyethylene which is unaffected. They are also tough which is why they are used in new vehicles. Did you know that ethanol is the same stuff that is in beer and whiskey? And that is in water too. No wonder it rots your guts. Still........,,
pretty sure there are additives to stop the E10 from dropping out of the fuel, but from what I've read, it's more of an issue if you store the fuel for any length of time. As for reducing water in fuel what about fitting one of these just after the tank outlet?
used to drink it when worked in Kuwait.... now older and wiser! Not sure if the ex pat community still make gin, malibu etc etc out of ethanol... Was a big thing there at the time .. Between both wars..... silly dangerous stuff...
They have promoted the use of E10 in Germany for the last couple of years, but the Volkswagen Classic website implies "historic" (generally accepted here as anything over 30 years) vehicles "can be operated without any problems using a fuel that contains a bio admixture of five percent (E5)." http://www.volkswagen-classicparts....k/?L=2&cHash=f960acb4410473343d891da8c2e4172e So, they advise you can fill up with half super and half E10? Not sure but I think I'll stick to just running super in the bus and stick the marginally cheaper E10 in the focus, which I'm pretty sure would run on anything good to know my gut feeling about running E10 in the bus is vindicated. Cheers!
I had a mk2 fiesta years ago and the fuel lines had been replaced with a clear plastic type hose with a white braid inside the plastic It almost looked like hosepipe but without the rubber inner Does anyone have any idea what the hose was and if it would be more suitable for use with modern fuel than rubber hose which degrades due to the ethenol content
Sounds like compressed air hose to me. Don't know what it's made from, but I wouldn't trust it near fuel until I found out.
Hmm A piece left in a jam jar of petrol for a few months would show if it had any adverse effects on it
Sounds like reinforced pvc....which goes slimey if you subject it to petrol...it then goes brittle and splits....
80s on vws run plastic fuel lines, then they just have short lengths of rubber fuel line on the ends!!
True....but would it be the same stuff para had on his Mk2 Fister? Come to think of it, quite a few trials bikes and lawn mowers have that see through stuff...the hose I had did the slimey thing, so obviously no good for fuel line (Well I was only a kid, after all)
Just had 'very' quick read up on ethanol and may have misinterpreted what i read, it looked like e10 doesn't give off as much energy as staight petrol, that being the case then surely the higher the ethenol content the lower the mpg, so super unleaded being more expensive per gallon actually would work out cheaper?
It was this sort of stuff http://shop.joehughesinternational....?GPN=FP-CL-1&category=FUEL AND AIR->FUEL PIPE
Seems it is suitable for fuel with added ethanol http://www.classic-bike-shop.com/fuel-or-oil-pipe--armoured-clear-plastic--14-bore-2523-p.asp
I'd have my doubts if the material is not named and no standards are listed in that page. I fitted this as a fit and forget solution, it should not need to be changed for a long time, better than R9 up to 100% ethanol suitable http://www.advancedfluidsolutions.co.uk/55mm-id-732-100-bio-fuel-hose-diesel--petrol-2015-p.asp
