Fuel mixture

Liveonthewater

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I changed my water separator on my 5.1 mercruiser, I accidentally filled water separator with 40 to 1non ethanol fuel and installed. Question is will that fudge up my motor
 

Chris1956

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The water separator will be refilled with straight gasoline, as you run the motor. So it will initially run on that 40::1 mix, and then the oil in the mix will lessen quickly.

I always ran some 2 cycle oil in my MerCruiser fuel. It seemed like it was good to have some oil running thru the cast iron intake manifold, to keep the rust down.
 
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