Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 09:55:25 -0800
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From: David Marshall <vanagon@VOLKSWAGEN.ORG>
Subject: Re: Water deliberately added to gasoline?
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Robert,
What you should do is what the Canadian Military did with their VW Iltis
'Jeeps' - put a water separator in the fuel line just like a Diesel. The
only problem is that you would have to do this before the high pressure fuel
pump but it is one way of trapping that Oregon water.
David Marshall
Fast Forward Automotive Inc.
4356 Quesnel Hixon Road
Quesnel BC Canada V2J 6Z3
http://www.fastforward.ca mailto:sales@fastforward.ca
Phone: (250) 992 7775 FAX: (250) 992 1160
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-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
Of Robert Keezer
Sent: December 9, 2002 11:36 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Water deliberately added to gasoline?
On my recent trip to Oregon, I asked a Texaco attendant if their fuels had
alcohol in them, and he said just the mid-grade and premium. Regular he said
is alcohol-free.
I told him that when I was at the Arco station in Springfield a few days
earlier, I asked the Arco pump man if they had any alcohol-free fuel, and he
said all Arco grades have 10% alcohol. Thinking that my cutting out may be
related to water in the gas, and knowing alcohol absorbs water, or is
soluble with it, I decided to stop using Arco and go with Texaco and others.
.
The Texaco attendant, at a station about 15-20 miles north of Eugene , told
me something else that flipped my lid.
He said that Arco "put" more water in their tanks than Texaco did. At least,
that's what he had heard. I asked him twice- yes, he said, the stations add
water to their gas. I asked the reason and he said the stations were
"allowed" to add water to the gas, but he had heard that some Arco stations
added more .
Then he told me of a customer that had to be towed in to have the tank
drained-the reason it stalled: water in the gas from a valley Arco station.
Are these company indoctrination myths or have I been in seclusion too long
and all of you are thinking "where have you been"? Everybody knows that!
Put water in the tanks? I am left to think that perhaps this part of Oregon
is within the boundaries of the Twilight Zone. I have never heard or read
that gas stations or companies deliberately ad water to the tanks.
Honest, I did'nt bump my head or make this up to liven up the list
discussions.
Robert
1982 Westfalia
Robert
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