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Re: contamination in carburetor
Posted to Technical Discussion Forum on 10/16/2008

I've seen an orange-ish, dry residue left in vehicles that used gasoline that contained MTBE. MTBE also used to be found in several "octane booster" -type fuel additives: it's been illegal here in California for a few years now so I haven't seen it for a while... Login to read more.