<VV> Stale Gas Questions - No Corvair

[Tony Underwood]

At 07:15 AM 7/25/2007, Bob & Kathy Gilbert wrote:
>Well ,perhaps some Corvair...
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>I have recently purchased an "elderly" boat which has sat around for a while
>- like some Corvairs we have purchased.
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>It had about half a tank of gas of indeterminate age. I topped it up but it
>is exhibiting running symptoms that make me think I have bad gas and/or
>water in the gas.
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>I can add methyl hydrate to absorb any water but what can I do about the bad
>gas? There is no practical way to drain the tank (I think they put the tank
>on the floor and built the boat around it!)

Don't bother with adding anything to the tank to "dry" the 
gasoline... not before trying this trick.

Visit your favorite FLAPS and pick up a cheap (inexpensive) electric 
fuel pump and wire it (carefully) to a battery, get a few big plastic 
buckets, detach the fuel line from the engine's fuel pump, plumb some 
standard rubber fuel hose from the line from the tank and attach it 
to the electric pump.   Switch on, let it gurgle the fuel into the 
bucket(s), check the lot regularly until everything is out of the 
tank.   If there's any water in the tank you'll see it quickly as the 
fuel first starts to run into the bucket.   You can likely use this 
fuel in the lawnmower etc and then dump a gallon or two at a time 
into the car when it's down to ~ half a tank, rid yourself of the old 
fuel while getting some actual use from it.

This also works on Corvairs when you don't feel like crawling around 
under the car getting stale stinky gas all over you.


tony..