Water in gas

They sell stuff called gas line antifreeze or dry gas which takes car of it so it will burn through.

Mike

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Water rolls around on the bottom of the tank. The fuel pump will suck it up and it should end up in your fuel filter if it's not too much. Take your fuel filter off and drain or replace it often for a while. Put a can of methanol or gas dryer in the tank. So you didn't say how much water we're talking about.

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what Mike & Mike stated....... ditto.......use "Dry Gas" additive.

~:~ MarshMonster ~:~

Actually, methanol (Dry Gas, maybe) is a pretty marginal additive. It will work for minor contamination.

Better is isopropanol, butanol blends, etc., with surfactants.

Avoid the cheap blends. If you really have water contamination, you need major help.

If you have lot of water in the tank, chemicals WONT cure it. You will have to drain the tank, refill with clean gas, add the best additives, and see what happens.

I have been there, done that, and have researched it on the laboratory basis.

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yeah......there's always that too.......

~:~ mm ~takes a toke....defers to the expert on the topic~ ~:~

The water will settle out because it does not mix with gasoline. Adding some dry gas (methanol) will help it mix in, though.

The bad news is that the water probably contains all kinds of crap as well. Which means even if you DO manage to burn all that gas up, you will want to change your fuel filter immediately afterward. Or make your kid change the fuel filter.

--scott

Water, methanol (known as a "co-solvent") and gasoline form a three-way emulsion. That is why methanol (dry gas) can be used to purge a fuel tank of a limited amount of water, thus allowing a car with water contaminated fuel to run -- albeit roughly -- until the water is gone. Without the methanol, or a similar co-solvent from the alcohol family, the car will die whenever a slug of pure water comes through the fuel line.

Anybody who doubts the properties of methanol, gasoline and water can pour the above substances into a mason jar and see for himself. Or ask a chemist.

Don

Scotch on the Rocks? ''shaken, not stirred''. If you have a glass of water and pour some alcohol into the water, the water level will barely rise up at all. Another old ''trick'' when there is water in the gas is to pour a bottle of Whiskey into the gas.Seems like a waste of good Whiskey to me.I bet a bottle of Everclear would ''cut'' that water real good. cuhulin

How about buying a length of hose and syphine all the fuel out let it sit till fuel and water seperate then syphine all the good gas out of the can and dump it back in.

Pete