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SVTPerformance's Chain of Restaurants
The Distillery
Guys using E-85 Check your fuel filters!!
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<blockquote data-quote="MaximumVelocity" data-source="post: 12613713" data-attributes="member: 51716"><p>I sample the E85 we use in town constantly, never seen a bit of contamination in the 5 gallon fuel jugs that we use. The only filter elements that I have ever seen with that kind of black soot have been from cars that had or developed pump issues. When you back flush the filter element and dry the dirt out, it is a carbon / graphite deposit and the only source that I can pin point is the pump brushes. On a '12 with E85, a in tank pump failed, filter and dirt looked exactly like the OPs. Checked the tank, passenger side was spotless. Driver's side where the pumps sit looked like glitter was suspended in the fuel. Consensus from that and the pump supplier is that it is brush material. Pumps are now back at the manufacturer for failure analysis (along with one out of a Subaru that failed simultaneously to these). Pumps are approved / tested by the manufacturer for E85 appliactions.</p><p></p><p>I'm not saying that you can't get contaminated fuel but I havent seen it yet and the stations that we buy from are new (new tanks and pumps).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MaximumVelocity, post: 12613713, member: 51716"] I sample the E85 we use in town constantly, never seen a bit of contamination in the 5 gallon fuel jugs that we use. The only filter elements that I have ever seen with that kind of black soot have been from cars that had or developed pump issues. When you back flush the filter element and dry the dirt out, it is a carbon / graphite deposit and the only source that I can pin point is the pump brushes. On a '12 with E85, a in tank pump failed, filter and dirt looked exactly like the OPs. Checked the tank, passenger side was spotless. Driver's side where the pumps sit looked like glitter was suspended in the fuel. Consensus from that and the pump supplier is that it is brush material. Pumps are now back at the manufacturer for failure analysis (along with one out of a Subaru that failed simultaneously to these). Pumps are approved / tested by the manufacturer for E85 appliactions. I'm not saying that you can't get contaminated fuel but I havent seen it yet and the stations that we buy from are new (new tanks and pumps). [/QUOTE]
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