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what to do with old gas
06/13/09 at 15:48:56
my friend's bike was sitting for 9 months with gas in the tank. We drained the old gas out but I have no idea how I can dispose of it. Where can I go?
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06/13/09 at 15:59:19
Try the 20gal tank of his F150. Two gal of stale pump gas mixed in with 20+ gal of fresh ain't going to make a difference. If he has any issues with that, have him add a bottle of injector cleaner...needs to be cleaned any way!
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06/13/09 at 16:10:32
Oh Yeah, if you need to store your bike for an extnded period, go to your local municipal airfield...the small fixed wing strip, and buy aviation gas. They can't pump it into your bike or car, but most will pump it into an approved container.
I ran a 1976 Goldwing for years. If I let it sit for two weeks with pump gas it would not start "period". I could put aviation gas in it and leave it for nine months or a year. With a fresh battery charge and the float bowls primed it would fire on the first crank. The same can be said for a 250 Honda Helix.
Drain the pump gas out and run it dry. Then refill with aviation gas and run it around the block once or twice.
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06/13/09 at 18:40:46
or use it to kill ants....
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06/13/09 at 18:56:01
As I was recently registered with the State of California as an Environmental Assessor, I am familiar with the laws in CA concerning the disposal of your gasoline. As you are an individual and not a business, legally you can do one of 2 things. You can use it for the purpose it was intended by pouring it into any gas tank, or you can call your local city hall and ask them the location of the next community hazardous waste round-up and give it to the trained techs who will identify, correctly package and dispose of your waste gasoline. In some areas, the city will have hazardous waste collection days where they will pick it up from you at your residence. The easiest legal thing to do is walk up to one of the million illegal aliens in CA and ask him if he wants some free old gas. He will immediately take it from you and dump it in his gas tank
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06/13/09 at 19:06:24
9 months is peanuts, just use it; mix it 50/50 with
fresh gas and use it normally, neither you nor the
bike (or car) will be able to tell a difference.
(it's not rusty, right?)
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06/13/09 at 23:56:21
I've run my old gas thru the lawn mower(with inline filter) and had no problems. Besides, unlike a motorcycle, if the lawnmower stalls, pushing back home is not a problem.
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06/14/09 at 00:05:35
Stimpy - FSO wrote
on 06/13/09 at 19:06:24:
9 months is peanuts, just use it; mix it 50/50 with
fresh gas and use it normally, neither you nor the
bike (or car) will be able to tell a difference.
(it's not rusty, right?)
I believe draining the carb is the key. Dad has a lot of hayfield tractors that only get used a couple months in the summer. When he parks them in the fall, he just shuts the fuel off, and runs 'em until they die, to get all the gass out of the carb. And all they have for filters is maybe a screen, and a sediment bowl. Of course they're all late '40's, early 50's Internationals, so they're not real finicky.
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