Drain it all of the tank and line ! Hate to see you piss money away like that but water in the gas is hard to get all out . You can always let the gas sit in something so the water & gas separates then take what you can save . That's the safest way .
I was going to ask the same thing. I was in my daily and filled up in a station on the way up. The car dropped down to about 5 cylinders on the way up. I put it down to the bad rain and water getting up into the engine compartment.
Water is heavier than gas. All fuel has some sort of moisture in it. On reciprocating engine aircraft they have a fuel strainer, which is merely a bowl for fuel to run through before the carb. The strainer has a check valve on the bottm you open before flight. You can see water come out, then gas. Close the valve and your good to go. Could possibly hook up some kind of this deal on yours, although I have never seen it on a vehicle. Hopefully that helps a little
One thing to keep in mind when using HEET. Stick to the recommended mixture as HEET is one of those things that more isn't better. It turns water to a lighter consistency that will p*** through the fuel system. Add more than recommended and you get an oatmeal like consistency. I learned this lesson the hard way after plugging up the fuel lines and trashing a fuel pump.
Same thing happen to me last week... car was shacking and miss firing at idle and when I went to take of it would shake the well out of me and the door gl***. I had a whole tank of gas and dropping the tank was out of the question. So I went to the part store and bought two cans of Sea Foam and a can of carb cleaner. Dumped both cans in the tank and sprayed the hell out of the carb. It was so ****ty of gas I tried making the gas more rich and the idle air screw on the p***enger side would not even work but the driver side would. I finally got the **** gas burnt out of it and I went and put Shell 91 oct. in it and the damn this is running great. Better gas mileage now than I was getting before so maybe it helped adjusting the carb
Yeah what you say is correct but knowing this to be true threw me a curve. The fuel line on my 34 Ford gas tank comes right off the bottom of the tank. This was the 4$ a gallon gas so I cracked the fitting and drained off all the water. With the water all gone from the bottom of the tank, I rebuilt the carbs, blew out the fuel lines, added fresh gas with a bottle of dry gas and started it back up. It started screwing up before I got the fresh carbs synced and adjusted. I'm about to pull my hair out now knowing that I had eliminated all the water. After chasing some new wild geese, I pulled a carb and sure enough it was gummed up with water...again!! This time I pulled the complete fitting out of the botom of the tank and the first thing I see is 3/8" of 1/4" copper tubbing sticking out of the fitting protruding up into the tank. The PO customized the fitting so any dirt in the tank would stay in the tank. So when I drained the water there was still a 3/8" of water still trapped in the tank until fresh gas was dumped in stirring up the water. I thought sure that I had covered all my bases and got fooled. It was not fun.
Here's my little update.After draining the tank three times and about six hours into it i got her running like a champ.Come to find out the secret was buying a 50 dollar electric pump set up and hooking the pump to the mail fuel line right before the fuel pump.What a pain in the ***.And my whole saturday shot down the tube. Oh well that's HOT RODDIN!!!!
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