[dk1677]

For those of you that live in the cold climates,With todays gasoline they say its not as necessary as it was years ago if you keep your tank filled in sub-freezing weather ( so you don't get moisture in the tank) But I have heard and read thats it not a bad idea and to only use isopropyl alcohol dry gas ( it will absorb water in the gas) I put one in every other tank full in the very cold weather

 

[Pshrynk]

Not worth it unless you live in Whitehorse. Todays gas is formulated to deal with the problem.

 

[Waldorf]

nope don't use it, never heard of this stuff!

 

[dk1677]

nope don't use it, never heard of this stuff!

Surely you jest! :chuckle:

 

[Quiet Lunatic]

nope don't use it, never heard of this stuff!

Same here dk..never heard of dry gas..:shakehead:

 

[dk1677]

Ok I will bite , I think you guys are pulling my chain but for those who don't know Dry gas is an ethanol-based additive used in automobiles to prevent any water in the fuel from freezing, or to restore combustive power to gasoline spoiled by water. It is a liquid that is added in to the fuel tank, that absorbs the water and keeps it in solution.

 

[Quiet Lunatic]

Ok I will bite , I think you guys are pulling my chain but for those who don't know Dry gas is an ethanol-based additive used in automobiles to prevent any water in the fuel from freezing, or to restore combustive power to gasoline spoiled by water. It is a liquid that is added in to the fuel tank, that absorbs the water and keeps it in solution.

Theres only one gas thats well known to me, but I'm gonna keep that one quiet....

 

[Waldorf]

is it like that STP fuel additive stuff? Is it a NY thing?

 

[Chaos872401]

Dry Gas

I use but I have to get some and put it into my Nitro it has been getting colder here but I also have had no problems and dont want to. I know what a bad tank of gas can to do your car because it happened on an older car of mine and let me tell you it was real expensive to fix.

So I will be adding dry gas to both my cars for the added protection. OH and by the way it does work. One of my friends had trouble with his 1970 challenger would not start in the middle of winter. Now he is a mechanic work for GM on Caddilacs. He had no idea what was wrong. I made the suggestion of putting dry gas in and in a few hours after that he got his ride started so water in the gas does play a major part in this in the winter. It cant harm the vehicle only help so why not drop in a bottle or too.

Just one mans thought on this subject

Andy
:Racing:

 

[dk1677]

I have 2 stories about water in the gas ; The first happened in 76 I had a new 76 AMC Pacer that I had gotten in the fall of 75 and my wife and I were visiting her parents about 50 miles away and and stayed a few days, I filled up the night before we were leaving and the next day as were just a mile or so way it started bucking and had no power, I turned around and went back to the in-laws and my father in law said it sounded like bad gas we got a bunch of dry gas and put it in, It got us home but was not running right so I left it at the dealer and they called the next day and said there was a lot of water in the gas and they took the tank out and drained it and put fresh gas in and it was fine. I called my insurance agent and he put it down as vandalism and the insurance paid. The second was in the fall of 83 I had picked up a new 84 Jeep Cherokee Chief I had ordered and as I was driving home I saw that there was only a quarter tank to I went to a gas station and filled up, went home ( about a mile) and had supper and my wife and I went out for a ride. I had hardly gotten out of the driveway when it started bucking and wouldn't take gas , thinking it was a "new car problem " I had it towed in to the dealer they called the next day and said it was water in the gas and put a lot of dry gas in and said to run it till almost empty. ( it worked no more problems) I went to the station and talked to the manager and he said the water must have been in there from the factory ( he said that had happened to his father once) and it was not his stations fault. ( funny a few months later they put new tanks in) It was many years before I went back to that place , it changed hands several times and now its where I go all the time, (Sunoco) I found it was the only gas that didn't give that sulfur smell in the exhaust in the Honda I had .

 

[Waldorf]

Dave, remind me to never fill up with gas in your town! I've never had this problem.

 

[dk1677]

Dave, remind me to never fill up with gas in your town! I've never had this problem.

I think that thats mostly a problem of the past, now they have all changed to fiberglass tanks from the old steel ones,if you go to a modern mini- mart, Your lucky it was a pain!

 

[Blue ram]

I think we call the stuff Gasline antifreeze

 

[Waldorf]

I think we call the stuff Gasline antifreeze

So, as I asked before...is this like that STP gas treatment stuff:
http://www.stp.com/fuel_gastreat.html
or this:
http://www.stp.com/fuel_water.html

 

[Blue ram]

Looks like to me, the second you mention is one of those kind of products

 

[Waldorf]

Looks like to me, the second you mention is one of those kind of products

the gas treatment product also says it has "additives" to prevent fuel line freeze ups. I've never had this problem myself, maybe the gas is better over here in Canada? :chuckle:

 

[dk1677]

the gas treatment product also says it has "additives" to prevent fuel line freeze ups. I've never had this problem myself, maybe the gas is better over here in Canada? :chuckle:

Could be , I guess that its they are putting the ethanol in now its not so much of a problem, it was back in the 50s and 60s you never knew what you were getting at a gas station

 

[NO2SLT]

Dry Gas? Nope Never heard of it either.

 

[BLUBYU]

Isopropryl Alcohol products should never be added to a gasoline powered engine (car. truck, boat, etc) that runs on gasoline that has Ethanol added to the fuel (like here in New Jersey and many other states). It reacts badly with the Ethanol and will actually make matters worse. We had to take it all off our shelves in my store and send it all back.

Any gasoline additive you use today should say "alcohol free" right on the bottle if you are putting it into an Ethanol blended fuel system. Truthfully, with today's fuels and filters on most gas pumps, it has not been such a big problem.

I remember when I was a kid working in a gas station, we would put some water detector on the bottom of the sticks when we checked the tanks and had to call and have the bottoms sucked out if it got too high.

 

[Corsairkid]

Ok I will bite , I think you guys are pulling my chain but for those who don't know Dry gas is an ethanol-based additive used in automobiles to prevent any water in the fuel from freezing, or to restore combustive power to gasoline spoiled by water. It is a liquid that is added in to the fuel tank, that absorbs the water and keeps it in solution.

LMAO at the wikipedia links!!! :rep: