E85 and gas

[mental_help]

A couple of gas stations around here are selling gas mixed with the corn fuel i think it is called E85 its allot cheaper then regular gas so i was wondering can my truck run this and if not what would i have to do to git my truck to run it?

 

[schmidlkofer]

im also interested.

 

[mental_help]

im also interested.

I take it you have seen the lower prices for the E85 and gas mixed fuel.

 

[schmidlkofer]

I take it you have seen the lower prices for the E85 and gas mixed fuel.

no i havenot what are the prices where your at? i live in enid oklahoma and they dont care about fuel mileage here lol town is to small and poor and we also dont have emmisions. you can cut your cats off and they wont say boo

 

[mental_help]

i don't know the E85 prices but i know the gas price is 2.98 a gallon and the E85 is a lot cheaper but what allot of people do around here is they run tractor diesel in there trucks witch is like 90 cent a gallon but is illegal.

 

[schmidlkofer]

i don't know the E85 prices but i know the gas price is 2.98 a gallon and the E85 is a lot cheaper but what allot of people do around here is they run tractor diesel in there trucks witch is like 90 cent a gallon but is illegal.

yeah you get caught running red deisel your screwed.....biggg trouble for thaat... hope they dont ever have random checks like they do in some towns i would discourage people from doing so.

 

[93explorer4life]

gas is almost 3.50 here in ellettsville indiana, indiana dont care about emmisions as well .
now this red deisil???? is this something taht ca be ran in a regular gas motor??
and im curious about runnin e85 in my truck, cause i dont wana pay 3.50 for a gallon of gas no more.
and i heard taht they are gona start making every gas station around here hold e85. just a roumor tho! hope itsa a true one! what is involved in making this work?

 

[BWilliams]

Negative on the E85 for you 1st-gen'ers... only the 2002+ 4.0L SOHC X and the 1999+ 3.0L Ranger are FFVs. (http://www.e85fuel.com/information/ford.php)

You guys would get an idiot light with a "mixture too lean" code.

 

[mental_help]

Negative on the E85 for you 1st-gen'ers... only the 2002+ 4.0L SOHC X and the 1999+ 3.0L Ranger are FFVs. (http://www.e85fuel.com/information/ford.php)

You guys would get an idiot light with a "mixture too lean" code.

I know i cant run strait E85 but can i run it with gas?

 

[mental_help]

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[techieman33]

NO, you can't put e85 in your tank, period. It will just cause you a lot of problems.

 

[mental_help]

NO, you can't put e85 in your tank, period. It will just cause you a lot of problems.

dang, well thanks every one for the info.

 

[colecifer]

The most you can probably run in our trucks is a mixture of 5% ethanol 95% regular gas. I wouldn't want to run much more than that.

 

[mental_help]

The most you can probably run in our trucks is a mixture of 5% ethanol 95% regular gas. I wouldn't want to run much more than that.

Thats the stuff i am talking about.

 

[schmidlkofer]

after i cleaned it up on a spell checker



NO you can not run red diesel in your X, it is the same thing as regular diesel. It just has a dye in it to color it red, It is also colored red because there is no highway tax on it.

exactly. its red so if they do checks on vehicles its easy to tell if the person with the vehicle was useing it.....we are down to 2.94 now....hope it goes evenmore.

 

[briwayjones]

The most you can probably run in our trucks is a mixture of 5% ethanol 95% regular gas. I wouldn't want to run much more than that.

Actually many places in the country only sell regular gas which contains 10% ethanol. That's the way it is around here. All of the gas contains 10% ethanol.

 

[BWilliams]

Many states have laws stating that the gas HAS to be 10% ethanol.

 

[mikeh44]

any body can run up to 10 % without any problem at all for all the 02 and up x's you must have a "K" in the middle of your vin

 

[Opera House]

E85 may be cheaper, but you also get a lot less miles per gallon. It is not a way to save money. Putting a gallon of E85 in is cheaper than adding a bottle of dry gas to get rid of water in the tank. That's the problem with alcohol mixes. If not fresh, you might be paying for water too.