Re: ethanol gas treatment additive
That depends on what the treatment contains and what it "specifically" aims to treat. Lets set the record straight. People are blaming all sorts of things on ethanol when in fact ethanol has nothing to do with the problem. Anytime ethanol blended fuel is introduced to an area some old engines (pre-1987) or vehicles/boats with neglected fuel systems (neglected as it dirty, full of water, etc) may experience clogged filters, plugged up carbs, and as a result poor operation. Ethanol is an excellent cleaning agent and will do a good job of cleaning the fuel system so be thankful for that. The down side is the filter and carb clogging but you would have had that problem in a short while anyway. The issue is that people tend to run there engines knowing they have an issue. Clogged carbs means lean fuel mixture. Lean fuel mixture means lack of lubrication. Both conditions can cause an engine to burn a piston, score the cylinder walls and therefore result in a rebuild. If your engine acts up, whether or not you use E10, fix it. There are reports coming out of the east coast where for some reason they seem to be seeing more plastic and rubber part failures than elsewhere. Ethanol can create failure of fiberglass (not plastic) fuel tanks. Ethanol attacks the adhesives used in tank manufacture and turns this stuff to a glob of goop which can also result in fuel leaks. There is no fix for this. We've been using E10 in the midwest since 1997 and there are no issues except as pointed out. If you have an older engine, clean the fuel system, replace fuel system hoses, fuel pump diaghrams, and carb kits and gaskets with current E10 tolerant replacements and go boating. Chances are your engine needed this even before E10 came on the scene.
