<VV> Non-Corvair Specific: Gas freezing?
ricebugg at comcast.net
ricebugg at comcast.net
Mon Dec 23 22:22:54 EST 2013
All: My wife ask if we should fill up the tank on her RAV tonight. We then had a conversation about keeping at least half a tank of gas in the car during cold weather like we are having now in Central Illinois. She thought it was to keep the gas from freezing. I told her it was to give you heat if you get in trouble, assuming the motor is still running. I realize condensation inside the tank can freeze in a fuel line, but that it is rare. Never had it happen in 40 plus years of driving up here.
I assume one of you chemist types will know the answer here. The question is, just out of curiousity, what is the freezing temp of gasoline? I assume it will freeze at some temp, but so far down the scale everything else in the car has become non-functioning.
Thanks,
Historically Yours,
James Rice
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