jackson@jaws.DEC (Brenda was a catholic girl......) (03/09/85)
>RELAX! As I understand it, the only purpose of putting lead into gas is to >raise the octane rating--and one can do that without using lead. I think >EPA is to be commended for taking this step. I hate to inform you of this, but cars that were designed to run on leaded gas will not particularly like unleaded. The lead in the gas forms a coating on the valves, and protects them from burning. The valves in newer cars that are designed to run on unleaded are much harder, and less succeptable to burning. Those of us with older cars are probably going to be getting lots of valve jobs. (that sucks) Bill jackson Arpa: Jackson%JAWS.DEC@decwrl.arpa USENET: {allegra|decvax|ihnp4|ucbvax}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-jaws!jackson