Bertram33 User Forum

it embarrases me to admit she is supposed to represent me. i'm in for e85 as soon as they give ME a 50% tax credit on new engines and 100% tax credit for new fuel tanks which we will ALL need.

3.75 here on long island ny for the pleasure of putting gas in my tanks that will disolve them.

not sure how to post pictures here. if you can, i could email it to you for posting. jim

here is a picture of a hatteras tank that went bad. it looks just like the bertram tanks i saw. http://www.samsmarine.com/forums/showth ... #post27011 jim

and if you evaporate the gas layer and drink the ethanol, which is kind of like moonshine, the leaking tanks make you laugh.

i conducted a little experiment of my own. in november i took 2 glasses, filled 1 with gas/ethanol and put a strip of the fuel tank in it. filled the other with gas/ethanol, forced phase separation, and put a strip of fuel tank in it. the 2 glasses were left in my unheated garage with saran wrap lay...

the ethanol/mtbe mix sat all winter, about 5/8 of a tanks worth. unlike the station owners who are supposed to adhere to certain regulations (emptying, cleaning, certifying) regarding their first delivery of ehtanol fuel most people were never informed of the incompatability. yes, most underground t...

sorry i can't help with the specific year or models with the problem. when i was at the yard i was only concerned with THE problem not the WHO aspect. most of the people i have spoken with who have a problem (all hatteras owners) started in the (2005) spring when using the winter stored fuel. i do k...

the years that are being affected are anything pre 1985/1986. one of these years seems to be the magic one, where at least hatteras (or subcontractor) changed their resin formula to something more resistant. the betrams/hatteras' i have either seen or heard of with problems are late 60's to mid 70's...

doug, thanks. running 427 ford chris crafts and yes i have glass tanks. went thru the ordeal last summer (2005) of bending pushrods and scratching my head as to what was going on.

hi guys, i'm a fellow commisorator with the fuel issues. the government has all sorts of white pages for fuel distributers on procedures regarding emptying and cleaning the tanks before accepting the first load of corn fuel. ethanol and mtbe don't play nicely together, of course no one warns the boa...