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Old 10-22-2022, 06:03 AM
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Default Rubber vs. Ethanol
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Originally Posted by DaleDivine View Post
Why ethanol free gas???
Unless specially designed for Ethanol, rubber components will be “eaten” over time by Ethanol. Typically, lawn equipment, small power motors, outboard motors, etc. are not designed to ethanol specs. Golf cart motors would fall into that category. Now I may be wrong in that “newer” motors have been modified to accept ethanol without harm - so no foul if I’m wrong….