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Plunker

Posted 4/9/2014 7:52 AM (#705560 - in reply to #704953)
Subject: Re: Best oil for 200 optimax

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^10 % ethanol fuel will be just fine in that motor. Run a conditioner if you wish. I have 6 work boats with 150-200 hp motors, various makes and models, each of them see well over 1000 hours/year. Guess what, not one problem that I can attribute to ethanol! Every time a mechanic has a problem they can't figure out it gets blamed on ethanol. There can be bad batches of gas that have ethanol as well as non oxy gas. You can't attribute that to the fact that it just has ethanol in it. Newer boats all have fuel lines that can tolerate ethanol.

That being said you can make a case against ethanol for various other reasons that are not the topic of this thread, but blowing up your motor because of it are not one of them.