From: GotaM35 (gotam35@joetrapp.com)
Date: Tue Aug 16 2005 - 18:02:30 PDT
> I just thought I would pass on a little story about my M3A1 scout car and
> bad gas.
>
> Late last year I had the in line 6 engine (sorry, it's a ford) I put in
the
> car running very well. A turn of the key and it would fire right up.
Over
> the past few months it has been getting harder and harder to crank. I
tuned
> it up and checked for vacuum leaks. It just wouldn't crank easy. It took
> lots of turning over. Last week I ran it out of gas and I removed the
jerry
> can that feeds it. It had some nasty looking stuff in it so I dumped it
out
> and put a few gallons of fresh gas in it. I put it back on the car and
> tried to crank it. To my amazement it fired up as soon as the bowl was
> full. Now it can sit for days and I just turn the key to engage the
starter
> and presto, it fires right up.
>
> Moral: Gas even only a few months old can go bad. This jerry can is sat
in
> one of the jerry can holder on the vehicle and gets lots of sun. That
might
> have helped along. I know a lot of us leave our vehicles sitting with gas
> for months at the time. I won't anymore.
>
> Joe Trapp
>
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