Check this out

[Wormin]

http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2008/...a/?partner=RSS

[greenriverman1]

Thats all we need!

DA

[riverrat12]

Is Indiana still ethanol free???? If so I know where I'm fillin up...Chuck

[crappiepappy]

Here's some note worthy info :

the most important preventive steps for outboard owners to take are:

Install a water/fuel separating filter between the fuel tank and the engine if one isn’t already in place, and spend the extra dollar or two to get a 10-micron cartridge for the filter, rather than the traditional 30-micron cartridge. The finer cartridge does a better job of removing water and impurities, he said.

Add the manufacturer’s recommended amount of fuel stabilizer to every tank when you fill up, unless you’re going to burn up the tank within a week or so. The two most popular stabilizers are Star Tron and Sta-Bil, both of which Noyes said help keep ethanol from separating, and as a result keep water that gets absorbed in the fuel from accumulating in troublesome concentrations at the bottom of the tank. (And yes, fuel stabilizers are expensive).

“But you must put the stabilizer in when you fuel up,” he said. “It doesn’t do any good to do it afterwards.”

Noyes said engines most severely affected by E10 appear to be two-stroke, fuel-injected outboards, followed by two-stroke, carbureted outboards. Inboard-outboard engines rank third on his hit list, followed by four-stroke outboards and finally by inboards.

(copied from a article about ethanol related marine engine problems)

I've also learned that not all gas that's rated E10, is exactly 10% ethanol .... some less, some more.
The water seperator filter, adding Sta-bil &/or Seafoam, and other ideas have been discussed, at length, on the Crappie.com website (where I moderate). I no longer have a boat/motor of my own, so I have no dog in this fight ... just passing along some info.

.... cp