<VV> old gas ruins engines?

[Frank DuVal]

Probably by making the valve stem sticky. I ran old gas in my vehicles 
for years to get rid of it. One day I put several gallons of old gas in 
my Corvair van. The next day I drove it, but only on three cylinders! 
All three intake rockers on one head were floping in mid air because the 
intake valves were stuck open!!!! Applied something like WD-40 and kept 
tapping on the stem ends with a hammer and they eventually closed. Must 
really dilute old gas from now on.

Frank DuVal

TimogensTurbo at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 5/31/2006 12:42:16 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
> kcvair at netscape.com writes:
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>> I drained the gas out and decided to use it in lawn mowers.  It ruined a 
>> lawn mower engine also, before I realized the problem.
>>     
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> Please tell us how?   Lawn mower engines can usually run fine on 80 
> octane...which is "base gasoline"...or at least was 20 yrs. ago!
>
>
> Matt Nall
> stocker, mod, v8, turbo, boat, Sandcar
> ALLVAIR!
> Timogen was a softy!
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