WRONG!!! go and look up the fuel line parts for an E85 and 'regular' vehicle. flex fuel vehicles have fuel lines that are manufactured with ethanol resistant fluorinated polymers (cost). Also, aluminum and zinc die cast intake parts are especially suceptible to corrosion from ethanol. Thus flex fuel vehicle need to use fuel metering components that will withstand the corrosive properties of ethanol.
There is no difference in the rubber fuel lines. The parts are different for a couple reasons. 1 E-85 vehicles run higher fuel pressures and volumes. 2 the routing is different to accommodate the sensors.
I ran e-85 for years in a turbocharged 92 escort to no ill effects. LOTS of people tune their high performance cars to run e-85 because it is a cheap, high octane fuel, which means they can tune more aggressively. It is REALLY big in the Subaru community. I looked up all of this stuff at the time because I was still concerned about all the old wive's tales like the one you are repeating. I found out they weren't any more true then than they are now.
Stop listening to this ! No where does it say, from Ford or otherwise, that any 5th generation Explorer, will not have issues and you are ok to use E-20.
This is just plain BS............best regards Plum
No, like I said, Ford doesn't say you can. Ford doesn't do emissions testings for blends above 10% ethanol or fuel economy testing. The EPA and several other organizations however do. Ford won't tell you to do anything they haven't tested for, there are liability issues.
Find, a South Dakota resident, probably has a pretty good incentive for ethanol. Look at what corn prices have done for the economies in farm country (SD included). It's been a tremendous windfall, at the expense of others.
You wanna bet? Ethanol has not had any significant impact on corn prices or our economies. Anyway, I work in academics, so... My job is safe with or without corn prices. Besides, REALLY high corn prices don't actually do much to help the farmer either. Higher corn prices means higher feed prices, and as you know, livestock is another huge industry here. Higher corn prices also means higher seed prices, and higher prices of other things made with ethanol, including some fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides. You may think that per bushel prices going through the roof means a farmer rolling naked in a pile of money, but it doesn't. Besides, the reason for such high prices in the last year were droughts. Higher demand for more and more corn/soybeans actually means we have to use more expensive farming techniques just to meet demand. If you don't make every acre insanely productive, you will just end up broke and bankrupt, and your farm land will eventually go to some corporate farm. The farming techniques needed to make land productive enough to afford the farming techniques require more fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, irrigation, and far more strict planting and harvest schedules.
Considering the HUGE surplus we produce of food crops every year and have to sell to foreign countries, you have nothing to worry about when it comes to part of our corn and soybean production being shifted towards biofuels. If nothing else, we'll sell a little less to China.
Besides, as we are using more and more biofuels, we are always looking at cheaper and better sources for biofuel, like algae or switchgrass.
Either way, believe it or not, I am not some government or farmer shill that is behind a giant conspiracy to separate your cash from your wallet...
Also, in this state, ethanol free fuel is available EVERYWHERE.
Well didn't this type of issue arise when we went to unleaded fuel? As I recall, it would be the end of cars that were engineered for lead in fuel ..... something about the lead seating the rings. There wasn't an issue when it came about, even though there were lead additives marketed for these vehicles that could be added to a tank of fuel.
Pretty much sums up the whole argument. Auto manufacturers and most of the public said that lead free fuel would cause a laundry list of issues. Improper sealing, drying out fuel lines, power loss, cats sleeping with dogs, the end of the horseless carriage, global thermonuclear war, you name it and someone was saying lead free fuel would cause it. Every single time the government even hints at some new standard or requirement for cars, there is a horde of "experts" on the subject who have heard that the change is going to cause the end of civilization as we know it.
Yet the 48 F-3 pickup my grandpa gave me kept on running just fine.
