Date:         Tue, 6 May 2003 16:05:47 -0500
Reply-To:     Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Demons in my engine, water in my gas tank?
Comments: To: developtrust@COX.NET
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The water displacement chemicals are:
#1) plain old rubbing alcohol.
#2) A patent product called Heat
#3) Berryman B12
Pick your poison they all work.
The best way is to drain your tank, jack the bus as high as possible on
the front and let the 1.5 gallons of never used sludge drip out your tank
drain.
Then add the water absorbers with a full tank of fresh gas.
Current unleaded gasolines remove oil spots on your driveway very well. A
little pile of kitty litter, oil sorb and brush it in with an old broom.
Let dry and no more oil spots. (Driveway only, not in your garage.)

Stan


On Tue, 6 May 2003 13:48:11 -0700 developtrust <developtrust@COX.NET>
writes:
> Isn't there a product that will get rid of water in the gas tank? I
> remember
> Stan Wilder mentioning such a product available at any FLAPS.
>
> William
>
>
> > Dear list,
> >
> > Still hunting demons after another afternoon
> > of troubleshooting, and there is still a $100
> > prize to be had.  See www.emriver.com/vandemon.htm
> >
> > My advisors think maybe I still have water in
> > the gas tank.  I know I can check for that by
> > pulling the outlet tube.  But three questions:
> >
> > Can water hide in low spots in the tank?  When
> > I drained it (twice) I jacked the driver's front of
> > the van to make the outlet the (supposedly) lowest
> > spot, where the bad Juju would gather.  Right?
> >
> > Second, are there other places that the H2O could
> > have hidden?  Enough to escape two tankfulls of good
> > gas I've run through?
> >
> > Third:  I probably have leaks in the top of the tank.
> > I have NOT driven the van in the rain since cleaning
> > the tank, but we have had a lot of rain.  Is is possible
> > for rainwater to get into the tank with the van sitting
> > still?
> >
> > Water in the gas would nicely explain all the problems
> > I'm having.  And why I get quite a bit of exhaust steam
> > (for two or three minutes) when I start the engine cold.
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Steve Gough
> > '86 Westy
> >
>
>

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