There are many sites online that will tell you what kind of damage does occur to older engines prior to hardened valve seats. The only people I know who make claims that ethanol laced gas not causing any damage are either tree hugging whack jobs or corn growers who want people to use ethanol laced gas in spite of potential problems for their own personal gain. The lead in gas reduced the transfer of metal between the cast iron head/valve seat and the steel valve. You can look that up.
Now you take an older engine, replace any rubber parts in the fuel system with parts made of modern materials, take the head/s in and have hardened seats installed and yea, you can burn ethanol laced gas. Keeping this tractor related IIRC the Ford 8N had hardened seats from the factory.
Also tell me why small engine manufactures just a year or 2 ago were telling buyers to run ethanol free gas? Why do all the marine and small engine mechanics (who don't sell gas) tell their customers not to use ethanol! I wish MN would repeal the law requiring ethanol in newer vehicles. When I went to IL in Oct our Suburban picked up about 1.5 MPG when I was in states that allowed using E zero gas. Kinda makes one mad when they are burning more fuel because of ethanol!
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