Anyone know if Harley's are E85 compatible? They just opened a pump here!!

 

If E85 = 85% Ethonal the answer is no.

 

My Sportster owners manual says not more than ten percent ethanol.

 

E10 max as per the owners manual.

 

No, very few vehicles are. Don't run it in your mower or anything else unless the vehicle was specifically designed for it, and I'd think twice about it then.

 

E85 on ice with a splash of cola will get you where you wanna go, though.

 

E85 also gets you 85% of the mileage you'd get with regular gas at about 90% of the price of regular gas.

 

A serious afr enrichment is required to run this or it will run very lean. I believe all the other components in the system are compatible for it, or could be made to be. Let's face it, it's coming eventually. For a box stock harley at the present time it cannot be used, as it's not mapped for it and cannot make the fuel adjustments.
Ron

 

E85 is bad ****. 85% Ethanol, 15% gasoline.

Burns hotter, dry rots gaskets, seals, rubber hoses faster, less MPG.

 

this is a subject I hate cause E85 is a joke ... most new high dollars cars wont run on it ... I had a BMW towed in to my shop last year with running problems and after about 4 hours of back and forth found that the person was running low grade fuel with 10% mix ... think about what the e85 would do .....
it burns up sensors
runs hotter
loss of gas mileage
and to add to it farmers are switching a lot of there crops over so they can cash in on this BS form of fuel ... and if you look around on the internet there was a study last year where a college took fuel samples from a bunch of diffrent gas stations and found that a lot of them where running 15 and 20 % and not the 10% or less they claimed ...what a joke