Ethanol eaten my fuel pipes

[Marco07]

On Saturday I discovered that my Biturbo Spyder had developed an enormous fuel leak which had me frantically pushing the car out of the garage in case it caused a fire.

Turns out the fuel pipes had split at the filter inside the air filter box and on further inspection the whole tubing was in a dreadful state. I have NEVER used E10 so this must have been the effects of E5. Now the fuel lines have been replaced I’m hoping E5 will be okay but I use ethanol free Esso whenever available.

It is a worry. If I’d been on the Eurotunnel it would probably have caused quite an incident.

 

[allandwf]

NEVER used E10 so this must have been the effects of E5. Why can't it be the effect of old age? Never make assumptions when fault finding. Hopefully it's an easy fix for you.

 

[midlifecrisis]

All you have to do is change your old rubber fuel hoses for modern ones that are naturally resistant to the effects of ethanol.

 

[conaero]

And your injector/carb seals and all the rubber parts of the fuel pumps. Seen several F355/348’s with fuel pumps where the rubber crumbles.