I remember when the E10 junk was pushed upon us so many years ago. The older cars had all manner of issue with rubber bit failures. I had to deal with three cars within 6 months needing hoses and gaskets due to being melted by ethanol. The replacement rubber bits did work better, but the cost was wallet busting.
Sure, there are new bits, just need the source and cash. What was out in fuel before the mandate for oxygenated petrol was probably much less per volume clay 1974 450sl - Frosch - Two tone green 1986 SDL - Polei 1982 300 SD - Allen retired models- 2002 s430 - Victor, a Stately & well tailored crap 1976 300D - Blei Vanst - it looks silvery 1972 220D - Gump - She was green, simple and ran 1995 E300D - Gave her life to save me against a Dame in a SUV POS 1987 SDL - Beware Nigerian Scammers > On Jul 30, 2018, at 7:25 PM, Peter Frederick via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > I'm always amused by ethanol destroying plastic or rubber parts in > carburetors. After all, gasoline has contained some amount of ethanol since > 1972 somewhere in the country at one time or another. MTBE isn't much > better, and was more widely used, too. > > Surely ethanol resistant materials are not THAT hard to come by...... > _______________________________________ > http://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 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
