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Aug 17, 2013Explorer
barlow46 wrote:
For those of you who choose to use regular gasoline without ethanol in your small engines or outboard engines be aware of the "phase separation" when e-10 is used or added to a tank with regular gasoline in it. Here is a link from Mercury Marine questions and answers that does a good job with the explanation. http://www.ejmertaughboatworks.com/ethanol.pdf
Yup, if you use regular gas, you could have a buildup of water in the bottom of your tank. If that amount is high enough and you switch to E10, the ethanol will attempt to take the water into solution and problems can result. If you use E10 all the time, no water ever builds up in the bottom of the tank. I've got some old vehicles (1967 Vette and 1977 IH Scout that were run on "pure" gas for many years. When E10 came along, I did not run into problems with either.
Again to the OP, a 2007 engine will run fine on E10----------the only additive you may want to consider is something like Stabil when you store the MH.
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