Wondering

[40cr]

I'm wondering, how many of you folks who speak of water in your gas, and in the separator, are purchasing your gas from the marina ? I've had my boat for 2 years, have always purchased the gas from the same inland gas station. I've never had any water in the gas or the separator, and I check often.

Of course..... now that I have made this statement, watch what happens.

[tommyr904]

I have never got marina gas with water in it,the gas i got was from an inland station that just started the 20% ethanal.

[thomas70]

99.99% of the folks boating have not and will not. I own and run a marina and the majority of the issues that come in are from neglect not water. But everyone wants to blame it on something or someone.

[40cr]

thomas70, I believe I agree with you. It seems to be a topic here somewhat often, just looking for a possible common factor that I have not experianced with my boat. I should probably leave well enough alone.

Thanks

[blackswamp]

For what it's worth, both times I have had fuel problems the gas was purchased at a commercial fuel dock. In both cases we had been fishing for a couple of days and needed to buy fuel on the water to finish the weekend. These were commercial docks, not associated with a specific marina, that cater mostly to the commercial fisherman. I have wondered if the problem may be they just don't pump that much gas. I would think that most of thier sales would be diesel. It's possible they don't move enough gas through thier tanks to keep it fresh. In both cases the gas was full of trash, as well as water, requiring multiple filter cartridge changes, In both instances, for the balance of the trip, we developed a routine. Every time we stopped to fish, the first thing I did was empty the seporater, while everybody else dropped baits. Pain in the a&&. Not a real happy camper but, Hey!, some days chicken, some days feathers.[img]../images/emoticons/confused.gif[/img]

[blackswamp]

Thought I would add, differant docks both times.

[LittleMrs]

tommyr904 - 9/10/2008 7:32 PM

I have never got marina gas with water in it,the gas i got was from an inland station that just started the 20% ethanal.

you mean 10%, right ? E85 (15% ethanol) requires a Flexible Fuel Vechicle to work properly. I don't think anything greater than E90 (10% ethanol) is in common use right now.

[jim1]

correct me if I'm wrong, but pretty sure E85 means 85% ethanol (15%gasoline).
Am I mistaken?
Jim

[getusummm]

Yes, E10 = 10% ethenol, E85 = 85% ethenol

[40cr]

I've been driving a long time, ever since I was a teen I've always tried to get my fuel from as few places as possible. On the theory, if I have fuel problems, I want to know where that bad fuel came from.
It has been most helpfull several times. I've had few problems with my cars and trucks and never a problem with the boats. It just seems like some people are always having a problem with it.
I stick with major brands, been with chevron for better than 10 years now, and at the same station(except on road trips of course)
I believe if you "just get the cheapest"......well, then that's what you get. The facility may move a lot of volume through it but it's still probably full of all kinds of crap. Bottom of barrel so to speak. The screw-ups from the refinery's, the clean-outs of storage tanks, the rejects from better facilities.
While the pecentage of alcohol could be accurate, you also have to figure you would be getting the cheapest of the alcohol too. All of that refinery's low quality stuff too. Where is this gas being blended with the alcohol ? At Exxon's finest refinery or two trucks at the rest area in the middle of the night.
Question what you purchase first....... not the results thereafter.

[LittleMrs]

Hody cwrap ! you guys are right - my bad. EWWWWWWWWWWWW -- I guess I was looking at the bright side trying to think that there would never be more than 14% ethanol in mainstream gas. good grief .... thanks for the correction ... now my stomach needs to stop flipping LOL