water in my gas

C.R. · Jan 18, 2011

was pushing snow today what a pita! make a pass and the tractor starts sputtering took a look and the sediment bulb was full of water wow does that slow the progress down make a pass ,drain the water repeat...took about 3x as long as it should have grrrr! heet didnt help,too much water.

old · Jan 18, 2011

Sounds like you either need to change where you get your gas or if you buy in bulk check your tank. I know years ago I ran into a problem with that. We had a winter storm coming in so I went to town and got gas. Pours some in each tractor so as to be ready for the snow. Well yep it came. Went out to start tractor #1 no go would not hit a lick so on to tractor #2 same thing. went back to #1 and found the sediment bowl full of ice, pulled it off and then not gas would flow. Didn't have any heet on hand but had rubbing alcohol so used that and after a few hours was going again.. I have and will never buy gas from that station ever again

Tyler Jackson · Jan 18, 2011

Not to long ago a couple hours north in Indy there was this gas station that had a faulty valve on there tank underground and people were filling there tank up with a ground water gas mix. not good

LarryT · Jan 18, 2011

Once I got some contaminated fuel. Didn't freeze but the water was in a place that I couldn't drain without removing the tank. It was on a pickup not a tractor. I called my Grandpa and told him what the trouble was and asked him what short of pulling the tank could I do. He said to hold on and he came over to the field I was working in. Gramps pulled a bottle of Wild Turkey out of the pocket of the seat in his truck and poured about 1/2 into the tank. He told me to start it and I never had another problem. I have never since had to resort to that but it mystified him where his Wild Turkey was disappearing to. hehehe hiccup,

LarryT

fixerupper · Jan 18, 2011

It never happens on a warm day when you have all kinds of time.

Got water in the tank of my 105 gas Deere combine once due to my fault not checking what was in a pail before I put gas in it. Must have dumped the sediment bowl 15 times before it cleared up. The bottom of the tank was about five feet below the carb And I got so I could pull the bulb, dump it and put it back on before the idling engine died. I didn't even turn the gas off, just let it fly during the five seconds the bulb was off. Jim

Bob · Jan 18, 2011

"a faulty valve"

Methinks that silly excuse is another term for "a rusted out leaky tank"!

Mark - IN. · Jan 18, 2011

Contaminated fuel? I've always been pretty lucky there, but since you brought it up, there was a time when I was low on gas in a pickup couple of decades ago, so stopped at a Clark station and filled up. I'm sure that Clarks do just fine, even that one. But that day I must've gotten the bottom of the tank because I don't think I made it a mile down the road after that. Truck was running fine until I filled up, so what changed? I drained the tank and smelled more like water than gas. Filled it again, changed filter...Varoom, varoom, varoom. Things happen, but also do my best to keep the tanks as close to full as possible so don't have much metal to attract condensation.

Also had a place decades ago that had a fuel oil furnace. Used to let the water out and change the filter and add some denatured alcohol before winter. Nothing like having the filter freeze stopped up and shutting down the furnace on a real cold day. One time of that was enough for me.

Mark

Russ from MN · Jan 18, 2011

Ever since they started putting 10% ethanol in our gas I have never had a problem, knock on wood! I just found some bottles of heet that I have probably had for over 20 years, they are half evaporated away! I hope they don't raise it above 10% though, that would start to effect mileage.

JDseller · Jan 19, 2011

My Dad filled up his pickup on his way home from work. His truck died 1/2 mile down the road. He changed the filter three times and never got it to move. We finally trailered it home. Took the tank off and drained it. We got fifteen gallons out of the tank. Ten of it was water. He had bought twelve gallons of "gas". He went to the station and they paid for the hauling home and gave him fifty dollars free gas. They found out that they had a leak around the fill lid on their under ground tanks.

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