Re: Draining Gas for Winter

From: Bob Hamilton (hamilton(at)cast.navnet.net)
Date: Tue Nov 16 1999 - 16:19:18 CST


Jay,

        Add a product called "STA-BIL" to the gas tank and run for 5-10 minutes
and you will have no problems. It is of many good gasoline stabilizers on
the market.

Bob

At 10:01 AM 11/16/1999 -0800, Jay Laifman wrote:
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>
>
>OK I've been slammed by enough people that draining a tank before the
>winter is not a good idea.
>
>HOWEVER, after what I've just been through on my 911 (with admittedly
>injection) after putting only 1 gallon of 1 year old gas in the tank, the
>first thing I'd do after storage would be to DRAIN those full tanks.
>GARBAGE - that stuff is pure GARBAGE. It took me three tank fulls with
>injector cleaner, plus a number of tank fulls of standard gas without
>injector cleaner, all new 14 qts of oil, and two trips to the mechanic, to
>finally get that stuff out and get my car running right again.
>
>Jay
>
>

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