From: Sonny Heath (sonny@defuniak.com)
Date: Tue Aug 16 2005 - 19:29:17 PDT
Joe,
Some guy who owns a small engine repair shop told me the other day that gas
can go bad in less than thirty days.
He says he got a warning notice from one of his suppliers.
Sonny
----- Original Message -----
From: "GotaM35" <gotam35@joetrapp.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 8:02 PM
Subject: [MV] Old gas don't work
>> I just thought I would pass on a little story about my M3A1 scout car and
>> bad gas.
>>
>> Late last year I had the in line 6 engine (sorry, it's a ford) I put in
> the
>> car running very well. A turn of the key and it would fire right up.
> Over
>> the past few months it has been getting harder and harder to crank. I
> tuned
>> it up and checked for vacuum leaks. It just wouldn't crank easy. It
>> took
>> lots of turning over. Last week I ran it out of gas and I removed the
> jerry
>> can that feeds it. It had some nasty looking stuff in it so I dumped it
> out
>> and put a few gallons of fresh gas in it. I put it back on the car and
>> tried to crank it. To my amazement it fired up as soon as the bowl was
>> full. Now it can sit for days and I just turn the key to engage the
> starter
>> and presto, it fires right up.
>>
>> Moral: Gas even only a few months old can go bad. This jerry can is sat
> in
>> one of the jerry can holder on the vehicle and gets lots of sun. That
> might
>> have helped along. I know a lot of us leave our vehicles sitting with
>> gas
>> for months at the time. I won't anymore.
>>
>> Joe Trapp
>>
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