Sunday, January 11, 2009
Ethanol Gas Destroying Snowmobile Engines
In more grim news concerning the ethanol industry, snowmobilers are reporting a new gas, E10, which is a mixture including 10 percent ethanol, is ruining engines of their machines.
Snowmobiles and ethanol simply do not mix, and it's best to just get rid of the combination before the machine is destroyed completely.
"There's a major issue with ethanol in that in as little as ten days ethanol will separate from gas and if you burn straight ethanol in a snowmobile or a lawnmower or something like that you're going to cook the engine on it," said Lt. Pat Dorian with the Maine Warden Service.
If that's not enough, condensation can be a huge problem too, as water can absorb ethanol, which can also destroy the snowmobile engines.
Now the solution to the problem of condensation is to put an additive in with your gas which prevents the ethanol from separating from the gasoline.
I have a better idea: get rid of ethanol permanently. This is getting more ludicrous by the moment. You put ethanol in your machines, although they'll get ruined, then you have to go out and get an additive to prevent the engine from getting ruined by putting ethanol in in the first place. Just use the normal gasoline you have always used, that will keep all this nonsense from happening.
This just shows the corn-based ethanol isn't the only issue, it's ethanol itself that's the issue.
Ethanol Fix continues to call for the complete abandonment of the pursuit of ethanol as a viable biofuel.
It doesn't matter which piece of power equipment run by small engines you have, it's going to end up being ruined by the use of ethanol mixed gas in it.
When you consider you're riding a snowmobile in many cases far away from home, it can become a potential danger and hazard to run it with ethanol, similar to running an outboard motor in the summer far away from where you put it in the water. It's becoming dangerous to use the mixed fuel, as it could result in harm to the user.
Now with calls for a higher mixture of ethanol in gas used for snowmobiles and other power equipment, it's going to get worse if this outrage continues, as not only is it unsafe, but it's getting costly to owners as small engine mechanics confirm they've never seen so many small engine equipment in their shops.
To me, snowmobiles, generators, chainsaws, boat motors, among many, can pose a danger to those using them with ethanol when the chances of them malfunctioning or not functioning could end up being a physical danger to the user.
Taking everything into consideration, snowmobiles aren't a good fit for ethanol, and neither are chainsaws, generators and boat motors. It's time to drop the usage, as the current bitterly cold winter shows, it could be a matter of life and death if your snowmobile malfunctions far away from safety because ethanaol messed up the engine.
We need to communicate with our lawmakers and let them know the damage and safety hazard ethanol is when used in snowmobiles and other power equipment we own. That way we can get rid of the misguided strategy and drill for more oil that already exists and put our research money into something that works.
Snowmobiles using ethanol isn't one of those areas that we should be even thinking about considering, as experience has proven.
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get the ethonal out of our gas .I have lost two mpg in my truck this is more than ten percent.wake up people.
ReplyDeleteSeems odd that they would be having problems with ethanol in snowmobiles since snowmobile rental agencies in Yellowstone National Park have used E10 for about a decade with very good results.
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ethonal is a disaster. People are trying far too hard to replace regular gas and oil when we still have billons of barrels of known reserves in America that the government has ignorantly refused to allow us access to.
ReplyDeleteThat has artificially created a shortage which has ended up with the misguided ethonal debacle which is destructive and has negative impacts on food and many other sectors.
We need to open up our land and off our coastlines to drilling and shale oil extraction while then - without fear motivated efforts - look at real, lasting and legitimate answers to the energy challenges we face, but are really still decades away.
I can say from experience that ethanol and small engines do not mix well. Here in New England where weather can include huge temperature swings anytime of the year. High humidity. And more importantly long periods of storage for out of season equipment. This new fuel mixture is not condusive to the average consumers needs. Many small engines are swelling pistons from over heating and requiring top end rebuilds. This was fine for me till the engines started coming back to be RE repaired at my cost.
ReplyDeleteI'm done repairing what looks like fuel cause damage and telling folks to junk their equipment. For automobiles the mileage deteriation seems to not justify the use of ethanol.
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ReplyDeleteThey have bean using 2-5% ethanol for more then 10 years and is currently the widespread replacement of lead (tetra-ethyl lead)
ReplyDeletenothing close to that, lead is for a specific reason, valve guide and valve seat wear and has nothing to do with the ethanol. modern engines are made of different metals and dont need lead. ethanol is a a lousy fuel unless the vehicle is specificaly desined for it. ethanol is hydroscopic mening it absorbs and retains water. also ethanol boils at 173F this causes vapor lock and this is the main complaint
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One of our snowmobiles just stopped in the middle of a frozen lake. Engine is gone. Just found out about the ethanol problem and will try to find ethanol free gas. Good thing we weren't in the back country. Brian and Eve
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