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Subject:Re: Spare Fuel Pump Saves the Day
From:Mike B
Date:Fri, 5 Apr 2013 21:55:06 -0400

No, not hard at all, Scott.  Mix old stale gas 50/50 with fresh gas and
it burns just as well as any other gas.
As you already explained, there's no easy way to legally dispose of it,
and it's too expensive to discard when it will burn just fine in your
vehicle.  I would know, I've already done this trick many times before.

Mike B.

On 4/5/2013 9:36 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans wrote:
> running fresh gas into a fuel pump that had a little oil or WD-40 in it
> and right into your fuel filter then engine, isnot likely to do anyharm.
> That's one of the reasons I suggested WD-40 ..
> a fantastic unversal moisture disperer.  And not harmful to much at all.
> Don't drink it though.
>
> ways to get rid of old gas -
> just let it evaporate ....very bad in environmental terms, possibly even
> illegal.
> 2.  burn it in tiny amounts in a running car or van.
> 3. sneak small amounts into your waste engine oil that you turn in for
> recycling.
>
> no joke either ..something like5 or 10 gallons of old or contaminated
> gas is not an easy thing to get rid of.