Originally Posted By: southernjeeper
Hands down the best picture to clearly see what people deny that ethanol is good for our gas. It's doing this kinda stuff slowly if left untreated!!
Thanks for this thread reply man!!
That's not showing phase separation, which would look kind of milky and likely in 3 layers. It probably would phase separate over time though. Someone added water in a 1:3 ratio. If it were zero-ethanol gasoline, it would look the same. In fact what it's showing is that there are limits to the amount of water that can be dispersed by E10 (about one part in 200).
Granted - I've seen phase separation in the tank of a lawn mower, but I don't worry too much about a modern car's gas tank.
Red Line used to have a water remover/antifreeze product. I found it on clearance once at an auto parts store that was discontinuing it. They claimed that it could remove an equal part water compared to how much was used, by dispersing the water into little droplets, adding a lubricant to the water to prevent damage, and lowering the freezing point. I used to premix it with SI-1, and it would turn into this strange milky liquid. I contacted Red Line and they said it was OK to use together. It's apparently still on the market, although I remember it was darker looking than this picture.
http://www.redlineoil.com/product.aspx?pid=81&pcid=12
Hands down the best picture to clearly see what people deny that ethanol is good for our gas. It's doing this kinda stuff slowly if left untreated!!
Thanks for this thread reply man!!
That's not showing phase separation, which would look kind of milky and likely in 3 layers. It probably would phase separate over time though. Someone added water in a 1:3 ratio. If it were zero-ethanol gasoline, it would look the same. In fact what it's showing is that there are limits to the amount of water that can be dispersed by E10 (about one part in 200).
Granted - I've seen phase separation in the tank of a lawn mower, but I don't worry too much about a modern car's gas tank.
Red Line used to have a water remover/antifreeze product. I found it on clearance once at an auto parts store that was discontinuing it. They claimed that it could remove an equal part water compared to how much was used, by dispersing the water into little droplets, adding a lubricant to the water to prevent damage, and lowering the freezing point. I used to premix it with SI-1, and it would turn into this strange milky liquid. I contacted Red Line and they said it was OK to use together. It's apparently still on the market, although I remember it was darker looking than this picture.
http://www.redlineoil.com/product.aspx?pid=81&pcid=12
