Re: ethanol and fuel mileage

Posted by fixerupper on October 26, 2003 at 20:16:30 from (206.72.52.5):

In Reply to: ethanol and fuel mileage posted by Terry on October 26, 2003 at 08:35:08:

I have a '79 dodge pickup with a 360 that got about 9 mpg in short driving.Quite a few years ago I advanced the timing to try to get a little better power/mileage. I can't realy say that it had more power,but it did have a little better mileage. The down side was it was pinging pretty good. Ethanol was something new then and I had heard it had a higher octane, so I found a station that sold it and filled the tank(s) with it. The ethanol mixture stopped the pinging and the mileage stayed up. The only problem was I had to use ethanol all of the time at a time when it was hard to find. Now here in Iowa it can be found in almost every station and I use it all of the time.
Only had trouble with it once and that was with a '76' plymouth 318. The ethanol dried out the accelerator pump diaphraghm. I found out that was the only model year it gave trouble, and I could not get an ethanol resistant diaphraghm for it any where. Almost any newer vehicle will not have any problems.

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