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barney

Post subject: Re: good fuel or bad E10

PostPosted: 12 Oct 2012 10:49

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pash wrote:

But yeah, be interesting to see what happens to fuel taps, tank linings, pipes even alloys used in carbs...

IIRC didn't Ducati suffer from fuel filler cap seal problems a few years ago in the us , wrong spec seal been eaten by ethonal .

pash wrote:

I don't know, but reading this makes interesting reading...

http://dspace.mit.edu/openaccess-dissem ... 21.1/66907

only had chance to read first couple of lines intersting about change to flame speed

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Mike_S

Post subject: Re: good fuel or bad E10

PostPosted: 13 Oct 2012 08:28

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Ethanol can cause some plastics to swell, Ducati plastic tanks did this in the USA and had to be replaced.

Some fuel pumps have plastic components that can also swell when exposed to ethanol. Some Yamaha models are affected by this.

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