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Originally Posted by Model A Ron
Brent
I know your not a fan of MMO but what a wonderful use to prevent rust  . On a serious note ethanol gas does tend to go bad faster and it does attract moisture. Are you saying this is not a problem in the Model A? If your using your car regular may be just fine but I wanted the opinion of people on hear. Regardless I would never use ethanol fuel in a car that is not used much.
Ron |
Ron, you are the engineer amongst us. As far as me not being a fan of MMO, that is definitely not a factual statement. I can show you more than one partially-full bottle of MMO in my shop. It does have many uses in my book. What I am not a fan of is claims how MMO corrects things like noisy tappets on a Model-A engine, -or how it coats the inside of a gas tank enough to prevent rust from forming.
There is something else that it misleading in your statement. Ethanol fuel does not attract water. It absorbs it. Huge difference in that the water must find its way into the gas tank first. Ethanol fuel does not "draw it in" to the tank anymore than non-ethanol fuel does. And, if the water is absorbed into the fuel in large enough quantities to cause a fuel tank to begin rusting, then at that quantity it is likely going to struggle burning inside of a Model-A engine, ...even one equipped with one of those magical Lion heads!!
The sole benefit to using a non-ethanol blend of fuel is to curb the tainting process that occurs with ethanol fuels as you mentioned above.