From: m35products (m35prod@optonline.net)
Date: Wed Sep 28 2005 - 20:56:51 PDT
It was gasoline-flavored water that had leaked into, or condensed within,
the tank. Happens all the time with old equipment that is left outside in
the weather.
apb
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Vandervort" <pgv@mydb3.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 12:56 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Generator - bad gas
> Here's a good one. My dad has this old Oliver crawler. One day he
> couldnt get it running. I finally got a chance to take a look at it. It
> had gas, spark, air but wouldnt run at all. I took the mag apart,
> checked the carb, looked at everything. Gas smelled fine too. After
> about 2-3 hours of checking EVERYTHING three times I took a wild shot at
> the gas. Poured some on a rag and put a lighter to it and it would NOT
> burn at all! Smelled like gas, looked like gas (yes fresh gas), but
> would not burn at all. I have never seen anything like it.
>
>
> PauL Vandervort
> MVPA 437
>
>
>
>
> MV wrote:
> >
> > I have a number of vehicles and occassionally I will get a batch of gas
> > that is simply too bad to burn in a particular car or truck. I have had
> > good luck putting the bad gas into cans and feeding it into my forklift
> > and Case gas tractor by mixing it with fresh gas - half bad/half good.
> > Both the forklift and the Case tractor have low compression engines -
> > like 6:1 and it doesn't seem to bother them much at all.
> >
> > Sooner or later the government is going to realize that having gas that
> > goes bad in a month or two does have some national ramifications.
> > Especially if it can't be stored for emergency situations.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >
> > Ed wrote:
> >
> >> That is a great site! My reasons for wanting to convert is that the
> >> propane
> >> does not require anything special to store it. As far as I know it
never
> >> goes bad like gas or diesel does and while it may put out a smaller
> >> amount
> >> of power for running my well and most of my inside electrical items it
> >> should do just fine. I have a military 10kw genset that I found is
more
> >> like a 20kw due to the power it puts out! I turned on everything in
our
> >> house to include the central A/C and it handled the load with a 75%
load
> >> showing on the load meter on the genset!! I highly recommend it for
> >> emergency use. Here in upstate South Carolina it's mostly for ice
storms
> >> that knock out power for several days at a time. We have a large wood
> >> burning fireplace so heat isn't a problem but having backup power sure
is
> >> nice!
> >>
> >> I wired it into the main wiring using a double throw, double pole
> >> transfer
> >> switch to prevent powering the lines and killing some lineman that
thinks
> >> that the line he is about to touch is dead!! Our setup was inspected
and
> >> approved by our power company and in fact was shown in one of their
> >> monthly
> >> magazines a few years ago. I have a 250 gas tank to fuel it but even
> >> though
> >> I use Stabile the gas will still go bad after a couple of years. I
have
> >> about 50 gallons right now that is crap. I have to drain it and try
> >> to get
> >> it into shape for the mower or something. At the price gas is now I'm
> >> not
> >> about to throw it out!
> >>
> >> Best Regards,
> >>
> >> Ed
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: <Recovry4x4@aol.com>
> >> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> >> Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 13:10
> >> Subject: Re: [MV] Generator
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> http://www.propane-generators.com/military-surplus-generators.htm
> >>>
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