Re: water in gas tank

On 3/31/2025 11:29 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:

Woozy Song  <suzyw0ng@outlook.com> 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.