TURTLE wrote:
"Stormin Mormon" wrote in message
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I got a load of bad gas in the truck. Only starts if I give it a squirt of
ether. This is getting tired in a hurry.

I've tried the siphons with the squeeze bulb. Only barely acceptable. And I
got on eof the Mr. Goodpump with the piston pump. Still only marginal.

Anyone out there tell me how to safely drain a couple galons of gas into a
gascan. Then I can go buy some of a different brand of gas, and hope it
mixes in.

That ether can routine is getting irritating.

--

Christopher A. Young


This is Turtle.

Are you sure you got water and how much.

A little water : Fill up and put 3 bottle of costal water remover from Auto zone
and burn it out. If you ain't got no money. Get you 3 or 4 pints of rubbing
alcohol and pour in it on a full tank.

A lot of water. Get you a cordless drill and a self starting metal roofing screw
with the rubber gasket and washer. Drill a hole in the lowest part of the gas
tank and drain till just gas comes out. just tighten up screw where the gasket
and washer will cut the gas off from coming out. If you feel you will never need
it again. Clean the screw area real good and cover the screw and area around it
with J.B. Weld and it will seal it off for any gas leaking any more.

TURTLE


I've got a nit pick. What is "costal water?"
And a better solution. rubbing alcohol is
commonly 70 percent so it has a lot of water. It
would be ?possibly? cheaper and much better to use
denatured alcohol from the paint store. Fresh,
denatured alcohol will be somewhere between 100
and 95 percent alcohol. But you really only need
a pint can of standard gas additive for just about
any amount of water.

However, he said bad gas. Does that mean old gas?
if so, then Stormin ought to drain the tank. He
can do that several ways, but on a truck it would
be about as easy to just pull the tank; I wouldn't
put a hole in it. Or, he could disconnect the
line at the gas filter and put 15 pounds or so
pressure on the tank with a compressor. A hose in
the tank with a sock wrapped around would be a
good enough seal for 15 pounds. And I would wash
the tank out with another 2-3 gallons of fresh gas.