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If it smells like gasoline you can get away with blending it into fresh gasoline and burning it through your engine. If it smells like varnish dispose of it as best you can.
If it's ethanol and more than a few months old dispose of it as you would varnish.
If it's ethanol and more than a few months old dispose of it as you would varnish.
It smelled like an old man’s leather shoe filled with Skoal spit.
i knew it only had a few gallons in there so I thought it best to just remove it and start fresh.
Our town has a hazard waste recycling center that takes old gas so not a big deal to get rid of. It all fit in my 5 gallon gas can. I put a temp in-line clear filter just to see new fuel and it’s pumping clean fuel now to carb.
I guess if I drained the fuel tank in my 71 I'd burn the fuel in my mower. Either that or mix it with Waste Motor Oil and try to get rid of it in my diesel truck 🤔
No. Same for the lawn mower, chain saw, and gas can. Those sit forever and don’t have any issues. Maybe related to the gas formulation or the low humidity/high temperatures here in the desert?
Last edited by Fun71; December 2nd, 2023 at 07:45 AM.
No. Same for the lawn mower, chain saw, and gas can. Those sit forever and don’t have any issues. Maybe related to the gas formulation or the low humidity/high temperatures here in the desert?
We leave E10 sit in the subarctic for 5 months of winter, bad things happen especially witb 2 strokes. Yeah, that looks like ***** 3 seems right.
So I am draining the tank. Before I run car too much.
this is first sample, really not much sediment but it sure is a rich color.
Rate my bad gas from 1-10 bad being 1 and fresh being a 10.
Who cares? Put it back in the tank, add a few gallons of fresh gas to dilute it, and get on with life.
I think people spend way too much time worrying about old gas. Back in about 1994, my father and I helped my across-the-street neighbor, who was not a car guy at all, start his father-in-law's 1969 Cutlass S that really had been driven only to church on Sundays by a little old lady (his mother-in-law). His father-in-law, who was from the old country, never got a U.S. driver's license, so when his wife became too old to drive in 1986, the Cutlass was parked in their garage with no storage preparation at all and left untouched until we started working on it 8 years later. The car was a true barn-find in that, for then being 25 years old, it had only 7500 miles on it.
Anyway, we did pull the fuel inlet from the carburetor and cranked it to get whatever gas was in the tank to flow out. It flowed fine, and it looked and smelled just fine after 8 years of sitting. We eventually got the car started, and it actually ran pretty smoothly. I advised my neighbor to get some new gas and burn the old stuff through, but my point is that the old gas worked just fine
Generally I would say that if there are just a few gallons left in the tank, get a 5-gallon gas can, fill it, and pour it into the tank on the car. Start the engine and burn the old stuff through. Don't bother to try to siphon the old stuff out or have the tank drained in some way. Filling with fresh gas and using it up will clean the tank just fine. and it's a lot less trouble.
December 1st, 2023, 11:35 AM
