[AJD] Re: Antique-johndeere Digest, Vol 8, Issue 16

[Tommy]

14 days? Eric, where in the world are you getting that info. I worked for a 
major oil company and our quality guys didn't like for us to keep a tank 
off line with product in it for more than 90 days, and they were ultra 
conservative. It would certainly take longer than that to become of 
questionable quality....Tommy

At 08:27 PM 12/16/04 -0500, you wrote:
>Back on the list, finally-hi all.
>
>(Answering digest)
>
>Dean, LP compression with modern gas should be no problem, but I'd say 
>considering how little actually gets used, premium is cheap insurance.
>Everybody knows that modern pump gas is only formulated to be fresh for 
>about 14 days, right? After that, it starts turning into ... something 
>other than satisfactory motor fuel... Sta-Bil, my hero.
>
>Lou and all D owners-my cousin just did his D, and being a world-class 
>cheapskate, found valves from an 820 or something that were the same 
>dimension as a D except quite a bit longer. He had a local shop shorten 
>them and grind in the valve collar grooves. I don't remember the total but 
>it was considerably less than new, perhaps less than half the cost.
>
>Eric
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Tommy Wilson
Hattiesburg, MS
1950 IH H
1951 JD B
1952 IH SC