[Farmall] Water (or something) in gasoline

Tim Savelle tim.savelle at gmail.com
Sun Aug 14 15:42:39 PDT 2011


I use plastic 5 gallon gas cans and keep them in a closed shed.  I've been
filing my lawn tractor from these same cans for years, including using gas
with ethanol, and have never had a problem with my lawn equipment.  My lawn
tractor stays in a small, closed shed at all times.  Since my tractor has to
stay outside and covered, I wonder if the temperature and humidity extremes
outdoors cause the ethanol and gasoline to separate.  Do you think that's
possible?




On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 3:45 PM, john hall <jtchall at nc.rr.com> wrote:

> Kind of puzzling since you are buying the fuel from multiple stores and it
> has happened on more than one occasion. They make products for removing
> water (It more or less makes it bond with the gas so it will burn).
> Generally you see them in the winter and they are pretty cheap. You may try
> just adding an appropriate amount of that every time you add gas. Possibly
> consider 93 octane, the oil companies seem awful proud of their premium
> fuel
> so maybe there is better quality control.
>
> Is the gas can you haul fuel in sweating  in between fill-ups? If it is the
> problem should show up in everything that is fueled from that can.
>
> John Hall
>
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