What to do with 1999 gas?
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When I drained mine, I had about 6 or 7 gallons of 20 year old gas. It was in two 5-gallon buckets. I put it out behind my garage without a lid and started thinking about what to do with it. It was July and very HOT outside. I walked back out there a couple days later, and it was GONE!!! I never did figure out who stole it.
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I drained about six gallons of gas that was in my '51. The truck had been sitting for six years or so. I drained it into a couple of plastic outboard tanks.
IT WAS THE NASTIEST SMELLING STUFF YOU CAN IMAGINE.
Now I have been pouring one-year-old gas from mowers, snowmobiles, boats, etc. into my daily driver for about 20 years. As long as you have plenty of fresh gas in the tank, the car will burn it just fine.
But what about six-year-old stanky gas? I thought I'd give it a try in the riding lawn mower. I put one gallon of the crap in the mower's tank, which had about two gallons of fresh stuff in it at the time. So it was a 70/30 mixture of good to bad. I used a cafeteria-worker style hair net to filter out the rust chunks and other crud.
Damned if the mower ran pretty good. The only sign of distress in that mower was that when you turned the throttle all the way down to idle, it would sometimes stumble and try to die. But as soon as the RPM's were up higher, it ran very normal. Throughout the whole summer I used that gas, at one point it was a 50/50 mix and the engine was used to it by then.
So I was able to use all of the stinky stuff. That was 3 years ago and the mower still runs great.
So don't toss it out or pay to get rid of it, simply pour a little at a time into some other piece of equipment or car that gets used regularly and has a tank of fresh fuel to mix it in with.
If you can run something with your 14-year-old gas in it....and I'll bet you could, you'd be my hero.
Tom
IT WAS THE NASTIEST SMELLING STUFF YOU CAN IMAGINE.
Now I have been pouring one-year-old gas from mowers, snowmobiles, boats, etc. into my daily driver for about 20 years. As long as you have plenty of fresh gas in the tank, the car will burn it just fine.
But what about six-year-old stanky gas? I thought I'd give it a try in the riding lawn mower. I put one gallon of the crap in the mower's tank, which had about two gallons of fresh stuff in it at the time. So it was a 70/30 mixture of good to bad. I used a cafeteria-worker style hair net to filter out the rust chunks and other crud.
Damned if the mower ran pretty good. The only sign of distress in that mower was that when you turned the throttle all the way down to idle, it would sometimes stumble and try to die. But as soon as the RPM's were up higher, it ran very normal. Throughout the whole summer I used that gas, at one point it was a 50/50 mix and the engine was used to it by then.
So I was able to use all of the stinky stuff. That was 3 years ago and the mower still runs great.
So don't toss it out or pay to get rid of it, simply pour a little at a time into some other piece of equipment or car that gets used regularly and has a tank of fresh fuel to mix it in with.
If you can run something with your 14-year-old gas in it....and I'll bet you could, you'd be my hero.
Tom
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If the gas is still in liquid form, and even if it smells like a dead possum was marinating in turpentine for a month in hot weather.....it will still burn. Fashion a filter from something to go over a big funnel (such as asking the fat chick who works at the local Subway for a hairnet) and use as much of that gas as you can. It might be the last time you get to hear an engine running on good 'ol days gas.
Then party like it's 1999.
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Then party like it's 1999.
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I have been told more than once they do NOT want ANY gas mixed with the waste oil. Adding this amount will make some low grade napalm and would invite disaster.