Swapped out known old rubber with initial fluid and filter change, so yes, early on failure. I was intent on using as much BioD as I could, so first failure was a big bummer. Must have been old stock hose, or too many batches of poor fuel. Got fresh hose with the same troubles. I guess dealership and Rusty must be stocking chinese garbage, instead of real fuel lines and rubber bits. But that is crazy talk.
Refiners here are not small, unless you count 5-100 million gallons a year as small. If they make a bad batch, it would be a large one. clay On Nov 1, 2012, at 5:57 PM, Tim C wrote: >>>> Viton is not impervious to B100. I have had to do DV twice on both >>>> Gump and E300D. Return lines have disintegrated as well as lines from >>>> the tank. Cigar hoses 2x. Valve cover on E300D turned to mush because >>>> the hoses leaked into the valve head and I had to suck 0.5 gal out of >>>> there. O-rings for fuel filters went south twice. Filler neck gasket >>>> melted. > > Over ten years in Seattle, replacing rubber twice per car (I assume once > early in that time) does not seem like that much to me, regardless of > fuel. Am I missing something? > > Valve cover is weird. But I thought rubber had a 5-10 year service life in > the southeast, where we only have minor weather. > > Best, > Tim > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
