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Old 05-06-2011, 08:27 AM   #27 (permalink)
abogart
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Originally Posted by Old Tele man View Post
...aluminum and ethanol don't "play well together."

...stainless steel and ethanol, however, are OK with one another.
Ah, so it's most likely the fuel rail that I should be concerned with. I think it's aluminum, but I'll have to look at it a little closer, I don't think there's any other easy way to tell the difference between Al and SS.

What effect exactly does ethanol have on aluminum? The fuel rails seem to be a pretty sturdy chunk of metal, I couldn't really see a hole erupting in one of them simply due to higher ethanol content.

Edit: It looks like at least the outer casing is made of SS. Hopefully the rest is too.
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