A trick I learned as a Bush Pilot in Alaska. Works with gasoline, don't know about diesel. With gasoline, pour it through a chamois (pronounced "shammy") skin (sheep/goat skin you get at your FLAPS or Wally World - auto section). The skin - a real one that is - while being leather, is very porous, and gasoline will pass right through, while leaving water and contaminants behind trapped on the surface of the skin. All bush pilots used this trick when fueling from cans, drums, and other suspicious sources out in the bush country. Never trust fuels under those conditions to be water and contaminant free. Always strained it through a chamois when fueling. Just a few drops of water could cause one to have a really bad hair day with and engine failure on takeoff over a cliff or out over the water or over the river when taking off from a river sandbar. Tough to make emergency landings in those places. At very minimum a few drops of water in the gas could give you white-knuckle fever and/or cause the pucker factor to go off the scale and leave a permanent cone in the seat cushion that even the very best brand of cone remover would not remove. Regards, John Rodgers 88 GL Driver |
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