Too late..the engine overheated and froze the piston... :-(

G

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:57:32 -0400, Gil wrote:


How much truth should this be?

I got a service guy telling me that now the Govt mandates that Ethanol
is added to gasoline. The guy was telling me at certain percentage is
too much for the outboard engines that causes the head/piston to fail.

What do you think?


Modern synthetic oils blend well with ethanol enhanced gasoline so
lubrication isn't a problem per se.

However, ethanol doesn't play well with standard blend two cycle oils.
In that sense, your mechanic is right.

Use a good synthetic and you'll be fine.