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10% Ethanol and water in your gas?
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[QUOTE="XRpredator, post: 1323130, member: 19389"] I'm not sure if this is just a local phenomenon, or if everyone else is having to deal with this recent issue: Here where I work, most of our vehicles run on diesel (motor graders, loaders, dump trucks, loaders, etc) but we still have gas pickups for whatever other uses. Recently, we had to have most of the injectors on a 2004 GMC 2500 4x4 replaced. The alleged problem was that they had rusted(!) due to water in our fuel. Then we had another one of our pickups, same year, make and model, have the fuel pump go out on it. We had it replaced and it went out again in about two weeks. Before they'd put in the second fuel pump, they tested the fuel and said there was water in it. So we decided to do some investigating . . . After talking to a couple of the fuel distributors, they said we had to have a certain type of filter on our pumps to seperate the water from the gas because the fuel contains ethanol. Now, I seem to recall from basic chemistry (or maybe it was auto shop) that ethanol is hydrophilic (attracts water). So we put these filters on our pumps to see if that will solve our alleged problem. After we get the filter on, we pump out about a pint of gas and lo and behold, we can see water at the bottom of the container. This does not bode well. My question is twofold: Has anyone else had this problem with 10% ethanol fuel? And, why the hell didn't someone think of this before the feds started mandating a certain percentage of ethanol in our gas? [/QUOTE]
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