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Consumer Reports of E10 Contaminated Gas & Engine Damage:
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Everything you need to know to safely manage ethanol & E10 gasoline...
Lawn and small gas-powered equipment,
snowmobiles, generators and more...
Reports of Engine Damage from Contaminated E10 Gasoline - View Page One.
Send Report to Fuel-Testers:
REPORT Contaminated E10 Gas, engine damage due to ethanol blends, abnormal test results (high ethanol or water in gas) and/or problems with ethanol fuels.
CONSUMER REPORTS:
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The following lawn equipment manufacturers permit use of E10 gasoline in the following engine brands:
Agco (500 Series Lawn Tractor) - Billy Goat (Quiet Blow Blower) - Echo (Grass Trimmer, Power Blower, Tiller/Cultivator) - Homelite (Ranger Chain Saw, Yard Broom) - Honda (Rotary Lawn Mower) - Husqvarna (Ranger 55 Chain Saw) - John Deere (Rotary Lawn Mower, Snowblowers) - Lawn Boy (GoldPro Series Lawn Mower) - Manties (Tiller Model) - Massey Ferguson (Lawn Tractor) - Simplicity (Lawn Tractor) - Snapper (Riding Mowers) - Toro (Lawn Mower) - Troy Bilt (Tillers) - Kohler - Tecumseh Products Company. View more.
View list of manufacturers/brands that prohibit use of e10 fuel or issue warnings/precautions.
PROTECT YOUR ENGINE
Fuel-Tester and/or Quik Check
will quickly reveal gasoline ethanol and/or water contamination.
Gas that is water contaminated separates into 2 or 3 visible layers - Above sample has over 50% alcohol/water - See lower layer, revealed by testing with 1 drop Quik-Check. (Petroleum upper cloudy layer, does not absorb QC).
Right: Non-ethanol gas (no alcohol or water) -
Blue Quik-Check drop settles to bottom.
Left: Gas with alcohol.
Quik-Check turns sample bright blue.
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Engine type: All years Artic Cat Snowmobile, Location: Maine Initials: P.L.. Date: 2/10/2009
" I am a Arctic Cat Dealer for 25 years. I have EFI 2 Stroke engines that have in tank fuel pumps. These pumps are failing in less than 5 miles. I have proven this senario on 5 different ocassions-5 different sleds-5 different brands of E-10 fuel. The pumps are failing right out of the crate. Fuel lines are deterioriating-supposedly "fuel compatable" lines from the factory as OEM. I have never witnessed this before. What is happening to the pumps? HELP!!! "
Fuel-Testers Note: Inquiry sent to Artic Cat corportate office asking if engines parts/motors have always been designed to be resistant to E10 fuel, awaiting response...
Request Snowmobile/Recreational Vehicle Manufacturer E10 warnings.
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Engine type: Briggs & Stratton, Small gas-powered equipment. Location: Maine Initials: C.P.C. Date: 1/18/2009
" Motor siezed after running gasoline with 10% ethanol -Reporting that my 3 year old woodsplitter with a Briggs & Stratton 6.5 hp motor seized up. Oil was fine and could not figure out what or why until I found this website. Not very happy. Please advise. "
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March 2009 - Check back - More reports will be added to website soon...
VIEW PAGE ONE - CONSUMER REPORTS OF ENGINE DAMAGE FROM E10 GASOLINE
Non-Ethanol No Water
QC settles to bottom
(not absorbed).
