[Rhodes22-list] Gas Tanks, Vents, and Carburetors

[Rik Sandberg]

Rummy and all,

Rummy, I guess you are going to believe whatever you want. Not much I 
can do about that. But know this: There was more to your friends engine 
failure than water in the gas.

But for the folks that may not know how these things work. I don't think 
it's fair to them to have them thinking that their outboard is going to 
blow up every time they get a few drops of water in their fuel tank. 
Yes, water in the gas is not a good thing. It will sometimes make your 
motor stop running or fail to start and it is a pain in the ass, but you 
are not going to have catastrophic engine failure every time a little 
water gets sucked up from the gas tank.

If that were true, then every engine in the world would be blowing up on 
a pretty regular basis, because they all get a little water in the gas 
tank from time to time.

Rik

R22RumRunner at aol.com wrote:
> Todd,
> Water injected into cylinders might be a good thing depending on whether  the 
> engine was designed for that. Obviously the cylinders on my friends Mercury  
> outboard were not. The only source for water to enter the engine came from the 
>  gas tank. There's no mystery here. It was a simple case of moisture from the 
>  tank destroying the engine.
>  
> Rummy
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