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Brad O
13-01-2011, 04:36 PM
I've noticed "alcohol resistant" fuels lines recently in the chandlers. Does anyone know if there is an issue using old style fuel lines with ethanol (E10) fuel?

FishHunter
13-01-2011, 05:08 PM
Some fuel line materials are permeable to Ethanol, not sure if 10% will be an issue but E85 definitely will be.

ifishcq1
13-01-2011, 08:05 PM
what ever you do don't put it in your boat especially if you have built in fibreglass tanks
the other local servo (not the oaks ) had ethanol in their basic unleaded and it wrecked 2 500ltr tanks and I had to throw away 400ltr fuel, an expensive lesson
the ethanol started eating the glass tanks and the older style black hoses went very soft very quickly
and yes I had the gel tested at work to confirm the cause

cheers