I have heard that the enthanol or other additives in gas now are starting cause problems with the needle in caburtor .... i heard that lots of import bikes been have problems ... it been kind of gumming the carbs up ... have anyone else heard this

 

I run non ethanol, it's difficult to find but there are
places you can find it. Click the link for stations in WV...>Non EthanolWV<

 

To much ethanol can destroy the rubber components in the fuel system. Ethanol does bond with moisture. This can act like water in the fuel and cause miss firing. My Sportie runs like crap on ethanol fuels.

 

thanks there only one close to me it in winchester va only sell 87 oct

 

http://www.pure-gas.org/

This site can be useful in finding ethanol free stations.

 

Ethanol is NOT a problem as long as it's concentration in the fuel is at or below 10%.

I see a lot of Urban Legends and Pseudo-Science on this forum regarding Ethanol as a Boogieman. I suspect that dirty fuel, or folks that voluntarily put other additives in their fuel tank (known as Mouse Milk in the industry) that also contain Ethanol thus raising the concentration over 10% are more the issues and these have nothing to do with the Ethanol, or the amount of Ethanol that the fuel company put in.

If Ethanol concentration goes over 10% it will play havoc with rubber/plastic bits that are usually made from Buna-n polymers. Replacing Buna-n with Viton materials takes care of this but Viton has less of a tolerance for friction (such as when used for Accelerator Pump Cups and the like).

 

Amen to that!! Ever since I saw that site on this site, I've used it numerous times for road trips.

 

My understsnding that the main problem is that if your motor sits and the fuel begins to dry out that it leaves a heavy gumming from the ethanol.

 

that could have been there problem .. was that it has set for awhile.. being it was some the inports shop .... they did say it was some four wheel had the problem

 

Boogieman?
I'll bet you have money in corn futures.
There's also some good reasons for not using corn fuel.
I intend to use non ethanol as long as I can get it.
Your free to do as you please too.