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Mike Wills wrote:
I dont recall seeing scores of cars pulled over on the shoulder of the road with failures directly attributable to ethanol use.
You haven't? I don't understand how you've missed them - the columns of black smoke should have pointed straight to them.
Maybe you only drive at night? |;)
Okay, there was a bit of hyperbole there, but I can't help but wonder if the increased numbers of on-the-road car fires I'm seeing as I cruise the freeways of AZ and NV isn't due, in part, to alcohol. The Saturn dealer wouldn't let me have the part for analysis (it was a warranty replacement), but at only 30 months old, we had to have the fuel pump replaced because it had fractured and was spraying fuel out the top of the tank and onto the ground. But for the lack of a spark, my wife would have been immolated. A few years back, our oldest son bought a 91 Lumina, with the 3.1L V6 engine. It's virtually identical to the 2.8 in my '89 wagon, with which I'd never - in the 15 years I drove it - had a fuel problem. He'd had it about 3 years when I walked by the car right after he'd parked it and smelled gasoline. We opened the hood and he started the car - the fuel pressure regulator (under the upper half of the intake manifold) was leaking fuel. Another roadside fire narrowly averted.
Currently, we're both driving dual-fuel Fords, so I'd expect that ~they~ are set up to resist the effects of ethanol.
I wonder how long the new Saturn fuel pump housing is going to last - or what else will give out.
Dale R.
COZY MkIV #0497
Ch. 12
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