Primer Bulbs

[R19]

Just my recent experience. A mechanic replaced my bulb and line from the tank to the engine with one of those new ones. The fuel line was shinny grey. Not sure if it was epa grade. I guess it was a relatively inexpensive unit. It was a joke. Basically it did not work all the time causing the engine to cut out at high rpm and the bulb did not pump all the time. Replaced it with a, get ready, $60 OMC setu up. Problems solved.

After many attempts of trying to post a picture of grey fuel line that came from a 2008 model boat I gave up. There has been more than one grey fuel line on the market for a few years. One is ethanol resistant and the other is not. Anybody wanting information about a link that gives details about which grey fuel line is ethanol resistant, you need send me an IM because I can not get the link/picture to load on this site...

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Here's the link:
http://www.bbcboards.net/zerothread?id=681502

..added by Peter

[peter]

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[R19]

Thanks Peter for fixing the link.

I believe if people open the link and see the 3 year old fuel line they will be shocked and run out to thier boat and inspect thier lines immeadieatly. What you see in the picture is not actually ethanol,it is the inside of the line being ate away because ethanol is much more corrosive than regular fuel...grey with red writing is asking for trouble...grey with blue writing can be ran with ethanol fuel.

When running ethanol in boats,lawn mowers,weed eaters,chain saws or anything that will sit for a prolonged period of time you have the possibility of damage to your fuel system. Ethanol does cause harm to our vehicles but not as much because it does not sit for prolonged periods of time.

One of my college term papers was about ethanol fuel. I had to choose wether I wanted to write about the pro's or con's of ethanol fuel. I found a lot of information on the internet while doing reshearch for my paper. There are good things about ethanol fuel but I believe the hamful effects out weigh them.