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Similar to how Biodiesel attacks the rubber hoses in older diesel engines.
Modern diesels, or older diesels w/ updated hoses, don't seem to have that
problem.
Chip
S/V AlleyCat
Dacula, GA
On 8/1/06, <> wrote:
>
> writes:
>
> If the tanks have been sealed with tank resin, which is necessary to
> be a sealed vessal suitable for fuels, what's the problem?
>
> Well according to several listees on another list and Boat US reports and
> at least two insurance company's the ethanol attacks the resin, softens it
> up and you now leak all over.
> This started with the gasoline , and older vessels (like mine)
> Particularly in the NE and Cal coasts. Bertrams Hattaras's, some Chris's
> . When you talk diesel a lot of sailboats have built in fiberglass tanks.
> Carl Hibbard
>
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