va-to
Noun
Mexican-American slang. Originally from northwest Mexico (Sinaloa, Sonora, Chihuahua, Baja California)
Hispanic youth; guy; dude

There are two camps in the carburetor rebuilding industry: those who believe that oxygenates cause problems, and those who don't. I have said much elsewhere on this subject, but it is simply a very sad thing. Not only that there is this misinformation and focus on the trivial, but even more that it has made enemies and hurt businessess and caused such disruption, hand-wringing and rhetoric, unecessarily. Thus I refer to the "gotta use Viton or you're stupid" folks as Viton vatos. Gangsters. Meme mongers.

And you know, some of the loudest Viton voices have been found to mislead, harping so much on Viton when they don't even use it themselves! And note, even Viton, as superior as it is, cannot resist carburetor cleaning chemicals such as aerosols. It's not smart to expect it to.

A few Viton facts.

• Viton o-rings probably weren't used by the OEMS
• California had ethanol as early as the 1980s
• Brown color does not necessarily indicate Viton
• Viton cost two to three times as much as buna/nitrile
• Viton is much less flexible than buna