Can you use 4 yr old gasoline?

[Ed Donnelly]

When I stored my Criterion for the winter 4 yrs ago, I put in 30 gallons of hi test
4 bottles of gasoline antifreeze,1/2 bottle of Stabil and 1/2 bottle of 104 octane booster. Little did I know I would not be using the boat for 4 yrs.
Drained the gas out, removed the fuel lever says and the tank was spotless.
My friend Rob said the gas smells good. so he put 10 gal. In his nearly empty Jimmy.

The truck runs great...WHO KNEW....Ed

[duckhunter]

The gas line antifreeze I'm familiar with is straight ethanol. Sounds like the rest of the $10 bills you poured in the tank did the trick!

I try not to run any suspect fuel in the boat, and definitely not in any two strokes (OB, chainsaws, weedeaters, etc). As long as it smells ok and doesn't have any water in it I'll run it in the mower or the pressure washer. They don't seem to be very picky about fuel and I do keep up with changing the filters.

[gcarter]

The gas line antifreeze I'm familiar with is straight ethanol. Sounds like the rest of the $10 bills you poured in the tank did the trick!

I try not to run any suspect fuel in the boat, and definitely not in any two strokes (OB, chainsaws, weedeaters, etc). As long as it smells ok and doesn't have any water in it I'll run it in the mower or the pressure washer. They don't seem to be very picky about fuel and I do keep up with changing the filters.

I was going to suggest the lawn mower.....but Ed probably still has snow on the ground while we're getting 90* afternoons!
What we all need is some sort of auxiliary engine powered device we can fuel with old gasoline.........

[Greg Guimond]

Maybe the gas up in the Northland has less ethanol. I always thought that in certain areas you could actually still buy no ethanol gas.

[RockyS18]

Maybe the gas up in the Northland has less ethanol. I always thought that in certain areas you could actually still buy no ethanol gas.

Those areas are rare, there's only one place that I know of and it's pretty far from me.

edit- unless you're referring to farther north than LG

[Carl C]

I was going to say lawn mower too. Just nothing high performance. I'd use it.

[Conquistador_del_mar]

A Warlock boat I just bought had 4 year old gas with Stabil, but I didn't want to run it in the boat so I pumped it into my old Chevy dually with a low compression 454 after checking it out by the smell and color test - the truck runs fine with it. I also used some in my rider mower with no problems.

[duckhunter]

My buddy runs a shop and has all kinds of customers come in with fuel issues. He ends up with 55gal drums full of bad gas - stinky, phase-separated, nasty stuff. Runs it in his mower all the time. Just siphon off the top!

I won't do that. If it's that nasty I'll just dump it on the neighbor's lawn or something. Maybe put it in a garden sprayer and write my name.

We've got 2 ethanol-free stations near me, both about a $0.50/gal premium over E10. One near the boat ramp that gets the boaters and one in the middle of town that gets the lawn care guys. I was surprised how many EtOH-free marinas there were in FL when I was down there for spring break. $5 a gallon, ouch.

They've got lots of auxiliary gas powered stuff in Canada. Let's see, there's snowblowers, ice augers, generators, wood splitters, the big smelters they use to convert whale blubber into lamp oil...

[roadtrip se]

Makes pretty good fire starter around the homestead. Wouldn't use it for much more....

[Ed Donnelly]

Our Sunoco 94 is corn free...Ed

[mc donzi]

Our Sunoco 94 is corn free...Ed

So is our Shell V-Power...92 Octane, I think

[osur866]

Old gas makes for good weed killer on driveways and sidewalks

[joseph m. hahnl]

I thought you said you put stabilizer in it. I'd use it for auto fuel

[Pismo]

Sounds like Yes.

[Greg Guimond]

Our Sunoco 94 is corn free...Ed

Maybe the gas up in the Northland has less ethanol. I always thought that in certain areas you could actually still buy no ethanol gas.

So is our Shell V-Power...92 Octane, I think

You guys are lucky to have a high octane option without ethanol. Can't get it in the NYC Tri State area at all