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Recommended fuel grade Crusader 350s
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Re: Recommended fuel grade Crusader 350s
You will find it takes a lot of time to fill your boat with 5 gallon cans!
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I have tried this many, many, many years ago and it was a lot of work hauling 5 gallon cans around and possibly dangerous filling so many. Not worth it in my opinion.
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( All weather people have to say this on air, near lakes )
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Re: Recommended fuel grade Crusader 350s
I fill my tanks, then run them to dam near empty before I refill. So far, no issues for me with the boat. Fingers crossed.
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tomschauer wrote:Source of the post I agree with all the negative regarding ethanol fuel, However, I have not been able to find non ethanol fuel on the water in my area for at least 10 years. Even on land there is only one station I know of within 50 miles of me that has non ethanol gas.
I fill my tanks, then run them to dam near empty before I refill. So far, no issues for me with the boat. Fingers crossed.
I agree, if you buy the fuel and use it then probably no big deal for you at this point after that much time, so long as the fuel does not sit around for long periods without treatment. The other thing is his boat is 12 years older and has carbs, mid 80's fuel residue coating everything tanks/lines etc unless previous owner cleaned it all up.
Sometimes I guess there is no way out , just good to be informed and ready in case anything happens IMO. I use 91 up here in the car and truck cause they can sit around sometimes, the 91 up here at certain stations is ethanol free.
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( All weather people have to say this on air, near lakes )
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Re: Recommended fuel grade Crusader 350s
Ethanol tends to absorb water much more than gas, is 10 or 15% ethanol blend going to make that much of a difference? I doubt it.
Ethanol has less power than gasoline which translates to higher fuel consumption for equal amounts of power applied. Kinda like diluting your Whiskey with water.
I have an old ragtop Mercedes, 1996 to be exact. Fuel pump just started spewing gas a few years back. Ethanol ate the seals.
On the other hand I purchased a new Yamaha 25hp fuel injected outboard last year for the rib. No issue running ethanol blend in those as all components are designed for ethanol blend use. Says so in the manual.
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