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You will enjoy our immaculate clubhouse, heated pool, hot tub, & tennis don’t run in a straight line, you have some low spots where fuel
courts. Our beautiful grounds have floating docks with 30 & 50 Amp sits. You’ll get a high concentration of alcohol and water in these
power, water, and dock-side pump outs available.
low spots. These low spots could
Please call the marina office for reservations. contain 50% ethanol, and your fuel
Discounted rates are available for longer stays. lines are rated
for 10%. So
810-982-2492 "2012" look extra hard
FREE One Night Stay! at the dips in
Located on the Black River; your fuel lines for weak spots.
15 minutes by boat from the St. Clair River when booking  North Bay Marine also has seen a rise in
2200 Water Street (at I-94) Port Huron, MI 48060 two or more fuel primer bulbs having internal delamina-
consecutive nights! tion and recommended replacing with the
Seasonal, Monthly, & Overnight Mercury brand shown here.
Visitors Welcome Present this ad upon  Valvtect provided the photo below left
arrival... no photocopies. which shows another fuel line cut open. The
brown spots are pieces of corrosion caused
FUEL LINE FAILURES Continued from Page 8 from the Ethanol, and could also be coming
from the gas storage tanks where you buy
According to Valvtect, if the fuel is highly contaminated, have it your fuel. Again, change your filters.
pumped out. Check and drain water separators regularly. Enough  Storing for the Winter: Empty or Full
water will cause phase separation, even within the filter. Tank? Again according to the USCGA...
 Inspect rubber parts, primer bulbs, fuel hoses — even ethanol- Opinions vary about whether tanks should
resistant hoses — for swelling, softness, or cracking. According be left empty, or about 95 percent full during
to the Coast Guard Auxiliary, todetermine the effect ethanol may winter storage. According to some experts, the
have had on your fuel system, when changing the fuel/water sepa- benefit of leaving tanks empty is if there’s no
ethanol in the tank, it can’t absorb water and
rator,

Ethanol Effects on 2004 Marine Fuel Hose

pour some of the gasoline into a clear jar and check the lev- Hopefully...or hopefully not, depending on how
el of water and debris. If you see black specks in the fuel, you look at it, "The day of the bigfoot house
you’re looking at a potential ethanol problem. The black
specks are typically pieces of rubber fuel line that has begun has ended."
to deteriorate internally. If you find this, replace the affected
fuel line with a new U.S. Coast Guard Approved ethanol-re-
sistant line. North Bay Marine owner recommended no "af-

ter market" brands,
and said he's using
all Mercury fuel
lines which were
just introduced last
year as the newest
product to com-
bat ethanol. Since
normally fuel lines

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