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by Rattnalle
14 Feb 2018, 12:56
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Re: Water in Gas

Adding ethanol in some way will probably get rid of it in a less noticeable way than the current one. It'll mix evenly with the ethanol and burn without making a fuss. If you have access to petrol that's part ethanol a few litres of that will do the trick.
by crlande
15 Feb 2018, 18:00
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Re: Water in Gas

Ethanol (E10) blended gas at the pumps is the problem. Ethanol attracts water so if your tank is less than full you have moist air in rest of tank space.
by Rattnalle
15 Feb 2018, 22:38
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Re: Water in Gas

Ethanol (E10) blended gas at the pumps is the problem. Ethanol attracts water so if your tank is less than full you have moist air in rest of tank space. Condensation will form either way to some degree. Less if the tank is kept mostly full. But water and ethanol is soluble so the water can go some...
by mrbrian200
16 Feb 2018, 07:29
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Re: Water in Gas

How do vehicles that run on E85 deal with this problem? I've seen water in my fuel filter-- one time last summer I disconnected and poured the contents of the filter into a glass jar. From the amount of water observed in the bottom of the jar it would seem that the bottom half of the filter below th...
by June
16 Feb 2018, 08:10
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Re: Water in Gas

I understand ethanol absorbs the water allowing it to pass. I do know acetone mixed with water alone will run a car engine no gasoline. I saw it on a tv program. On Coast to Coast radio program a good 15 years ago a guest stated that by adding a small amount af acetone to each tank will boost fuel e...
by Rattnalle
19 Feb 2018, 06:56
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Re: Water in Gas

The pump will do it for you if you just turn the ignition to 2 and put a tube in a good place, yes. Heet seems to be mostly expensive methanol which does the same thing as adding ethanol. But if you have a lot of water, enough to make the var run poorly, I'm guessing you'd need a lot more to really ...
by June
19 Feb 2018, 08:57
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Re: Water in Gas

After taking off the fuel rail and dumping the water, etc. out, I reinstalled it and the car ran ok for a few minutes, with some misses, Now back to the same as it was. I have added a can of Heet. Planning to repeat the removal, dump process today. any suggestions beyond that? Can I take the rail o...
by mrbrian200
19 Feb 2018, 23:04
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Re: Water in Gas

That's a lot of water. You might look at the station where you last purchased gas as a possible cause. It happens. Once a year or so locally I'll hear of some station where their underground tank didn't get sealed properly after a delivery and a torrential rain ends up in people's fuel tanks. Or the...
by June
21 Feb 2018, 14:09
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Re: Water in Gas

sucanache wrote: 19 Feb 2018, 07:02Thank you!
How is the car running? Did you do anything particular that solved the problem? I read you siphoned from the fuel rail over a gallon of water. That is not normal, either someone garden hosed your tank or you really got bad gas. June
by oragex
22 Feb 2018, 16:09
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Re: Water in Gas

That's a lot of water. You might look at the station where you last purchased gas as a possible cause. It happens. Once a year or so locally I'll hear of some station where their underground tank didn't get sealed properly after a delivery and a torrential rain ends up in people's fuel tanks. Or th...