"George E. Cawthon" wrote in message
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TURTLE wrote:
"George E. Cawthon" wrote in message
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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.
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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.
This is Turtle.
Coastal Water : The Green Water remover at Auto Zone that the locals use to
get water out of the gas. The Locals call it Co Water .
Now to Plain 70% water Rubbing Alcohol as a water absorber. The rubbing
Alcohol will Mix up a lot of water in the gas , if you have a lot gas in the
tank. The rubbing Alcohol is not just to absorb the water but it is to make
the water mix with the gas. Alcohol in a mix of gas and water is like putting
soap in a mix oil and water which will make them mix and be one product.
Now using rubbing alcohol is the last resort when you don't have any money
and everybody has a few bottles of rubbing alcohol laying around or get some
at $.50 a bottle. If you have money go get two bottles of Coastal Water
Remover at Auto Zone and fill the tank with gas then be done with it.
The 100% Denatured Alcohol is high as a cats back to use for water remover
when Coastal water remover is $2.00 a bottle.
TURTLE
TURTLE
Ah, that explains it. We don't have an Auto Zone.
I don't know what your costs are but isopropyl is about $1 per 16oz bottle (8
to the gallon) (and they are 30 percent water). The little 8 oz cans of
gasline antifreeze (16 to the gallon) cost nearly $1. So I don't see that
denatured alcohol at $9-10 a gallon is any more expensive. Anyway, ethyl
alcohol (denatured) is fully miscible with water and fully miscible with gas.
The point of the alcohol is to keep the water mixed and not let it separate.
A quart of alcohol would probably be enough to get 2-3 quarts of water to mix
fully with 10 gallons of gas. Two quarts of water in 10 gallons of gas would
highly degrade the gas regardless of what you use to get it to mix. Best deal
would be to eliminate (or trap) the water instead of mixing it with the gas.
Anyway, something is seriously wrong if one has more than a couple of ounces
in 20 gallons of gas.
This is Turtle.
Let me put this one on you. Did you know that regular gas with no Alcohol or
additives has to be 6% water to start with !
TURTLE
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