Richard Pike
Joined: 09 Jan 2006
Posts: 1670
Location: Blountville, Tennessee
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 Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2013 1:00 pm Post subject: Ethanol in fuel |
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About a month ago, my hangar mate had time off work for a quick late afternoon flight, but only had time to buy some ethanol corrupted fuel. Flew for a while, but not enough to use all the ethanol fuel up. He called me today, concerned that he still had some of that stuff in the carbs, and no time to get to it.
So I took the dog for a walk and went by his hangar. Pulled the float bowls off and sure enough, the fuel remaining in them had a faint milky grey tint, a little corrosion was beginning to form on the walls of the float bowls, and there were a couple of tiny drops of water in the bottom of each. Wish I had thought to take a picture, but I just dumped them.
Then it occurred to me to wonder about my Kolb, so I went and pulled my float bowls off and looked. My last flight was December 8, the fuel in the bowls was the color of tea, very thin pale brown, obviously old, but clear, no corrosion, and no water. Wish I had taken a picture, but I'm not that clever.
Bottom line, two identical 582's; one with fuel over two months old and simply old, the other with ethanol laced fuel 1 month old and already starting to cause problems.
Worth what ya paid for it.
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Richard Pike
Kolb MKIII N420P (420ldPoops)
Kingsport, TN 3TN0
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