prochargedsrt
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Im running a custom 94 octane tune and the only 94 in my city is at husky and it has 10% ethanol in it, good? bad? no effect?
Ethanol good or bad?
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i would not let it sit in my tank for a month or more, if you are driving the truck fine, if you are storing it for long periods of time...... no ethanol
You'll be fine running the 94 tune with that fuel. My truck always ran better on full without ethanol in it though.
trussman
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I personally try to stay away from ethanol. My truck always got worse mileage, seemed like it idled worse, and the biggest thing is I have had tons of boat motor issues related to ethanol on my boat and skis. I don't use any of them or the truck enough to burn through it before it messes stuff up.
Good advice. I've heard few horror stories already of this type of fuel making a mess of things in vehicles that sat for too long.
Skypilot68
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I have used Huskey or Petro-Canada 94 for years, with no issues. I have not seen any issues after storing the truck for months on end during the winter. Stay away from E85. If you get over to BC, Chevron has 94 also.
Hate to tell you this, but your truck is probably only a few miles away from completely being ruined from this. But don't worry, being the nice guy that I am I will take it off your hands.
prochargedsrt
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thanks for the replies, if i ran 91 octane and threw in a bottle of octane boost every tank or two would that basically be the same as 94? if so i could go that route to avoid the whole ethanol situation
No, that's not the same thing and is a bad idea.
shorty
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Is he drinking the octane boost of putting it in the fuel tank. That has to be determined before you can say it is a bad idea. :chain:
Wait, one of those is a good idea?
Hate to tell you this, but your truck is probably only a few miles away from completely being ruined from this. But don't worry, being the nice guy that I am I will take it off your hands.
Oh no! I had no idea. Please go to my house right away and take my truck; I think I forgot to set the garage alarm this morning. Oh, I also didn't feed the doberman's. One is named Fluffy, the other Pookey. Just use those names and they will come right over!
prochargedsrt
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thanks for the info
ghackett1
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On my other cars (older muscle cars with carbs) my 10 is very new to me, but I use this stuff by Lucas, it's in a little bottle (green color liquid) and you pour it in to 20 gallons of ethanol mixed fuel and it keeps the ethanol from doing damage. I've had the carb bows off to change jets and stuff and the inside of the bowls are like brand new. Been using the stuff over a year and am very happy with it. Of course it adds like $7 to each 20 gallons but it works.
I've been adding 2fl. Ounces of pure acetone for every ten gallons of 93 fuel for years in both tens. Old drag racer's trick. Read up on it. Gotta be 100% pure though, hard to find.
trussman
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I'll stick to my "bad" opinion as I have torn multiple fuel systems apart that have had ethanol ran through them. I have about 4 stations to choose from to fill the 10 that are E-free. Worth the extra $ IMHO if they are available.
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