Re: old / stale gas

Posted by NC Wayne on July 19, 2005 at 22:03:43 from (205.188.117.66):

In Reply to: old / stale gas posted by Joe Bloggs on July 19, 2005 at 18:51:36:

Go to NAPA and get some Sea Foam. I'm not much on all these fancy additives on the market nowdays but this stuff really works. I've used it in several things over the years that had old gas in them, but the oldest stuff I ever tried it on was in a a forklift. When it was given to me it had been sitting for nearly ten years with a couple of gallons of old gas in it and no easy way to get it out. When I got it it wouldn't start for anything. I checked out the carb and fortunately it was clean and dry with just a very small amount of gum in the bottom of the bowl. Still I cleaned the carb and added several gallons of new gas and a couple of cans of the Sea Foam to the old stuff in the tank and the old girl fired right up. It smoked and stank for a while til I ran enough new stuff through it to get all the old gas diluted and ran through, but it would run. That's been nearly 8 years ago and I've had absolutely no problems with it at alltoday. I can walk out to the shop right now and it'll fire right up. With the amount you've got I'd try adding it say a gallon or two at a time in with at least three times the amount in new gas and at the same time put in a can of the Sea Foam and I don't think you'll ever know the difference. I wouldn't use it in a new car or anything fuel injected because the tollarances in them are so tight that there could be the possibility of a little "gum" getting in them from the old stuff but in an older engine with a carb it shouldn't be a problem.

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