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In Reply to: Archives seem to be available via Google, FWIW... posted by NickB on April 29, 2001 at 20:28:45:
I sure hope you don't have water in your tank. My wife got water in the gas tank of her Chevy about 25 years ago WHAT A PITA!!!!
That car randomly stalled & would not restart for 2 years. We dropped the gas tank & had it steam cleaned twice, no difference. I blew out the fuel lines with compressed air and a solvent, no help.
You had to replace that STUPID little filter about half the size of you pinky finger Chevy put in the base of the carb, you needed TWO split end pipe fitting wrenches GRRRR!!! I HATED that car!
The only thing that finally fixed it was putting a HUGE FRAM gas filter in the fuel line on the advice of a grizzled old mechanic at a local garage. I got the biggest one I could find, it was bigger than a lot of oil filters. It had so much volume it took months to fill up with crap vs. the 3 days the dinky little GM filter lasted. What a mess when you went to change it though, gas went everywhere.
Anyway I needed to vent I sure hope you don't have the same problem!
Tom M.
I'm having trouble with what I think is water in the tank of my Y2K M, and I did a Google search on "water in gasoline" to see if I needed isopropanol, ethanol, or methanol... and I came across a hit for a posting from this group dated December 24/2000 from Allan that mentioned water in the tank. Granted, it was on page 13 of 22 pages of hits, but it _was_ there!
Since I've never been able to find recently-archived items in this group, I thought I should share my finding...
BTW, anahydrous isopropanol is the way to go. Great link on the subject here: http://yarchive.net/chem/gasoline_dewater.html
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