XPost: alt.home.repair   
   From: esp@snet.n   
      
   On 3/31/2025 11:29 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:   
   > Woozy Song   wrote:   
   >> One of those bush survival TV shows said put a litre of methylated   
   >> spirits (denatured alcohol) in the tank, which blends with the water.   
   >> Never tried it myself, sounds a little dodgy.   
   >   
   > Yes, this works very well if you have small amounts of water in the gas, not   
   > so well if you have a whole lot of water in the gas.   
   >   
   > These days it's superfluous, though, since we have ethanol in the gasoline   
   > already and this will get water into solution.  Unfortunately the original   
   > poster probably has gasohol that is already saturated with water, so the   
   > best thing to do is pump as much out as possible and then refill with clean   
   > gasoline, and hope the ethanol in the clean gasoline gets as much as possible   
   > of the water into solution.   
   > --scott   
      
      
   I'd do a bit of both.  Put in some alcohol and just a few gallons of   
   clean gas. They will help purge an residual.  Once you are sure it is   
   running OK, then fill it up.   
      
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