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If there is RUST in the Can I'd buy a new Can for my fresh fuel.

Keep the old can & Gas for 'Clean up' of dirty greasey parts or for lighting your next bon-fire.

ZooTech wrote:

JWF505 wrote:

Skier wrote:I would filter it out and throw it in my cage with a lot of fresh gas. No sense wasting it.

my thinking exactly, when gas is $3.08 a gallon for the cheap stuff i refuse to waste any of it.



JWF

Half a gallon of rusty gas running around your car's engine??? Hope you really like riding that bike of yours, cuz your cage is doomed.

BTW, I am paying ~$2.35/gallon for mid-grade at Shell, Sunoco, Marathon, and Kroger. Wal-Mart has 87-octane for $1.99 with a swipe of the Wal-Mart card.

I do like the bike im riding And my cage was already doomed, even before i put leaded gas into it once (odd story) Its an 85 GMC Safari Van, it currently gets 7 miles to the gallon, has crank windows and locks, no lights, turn signals or speedometer. Its a POS but i wouldnt trade it for any little small car in the world, unless you could a bike as a small car, then maybe



JWF

on the topic of gas I noticed that my 82 yamaha calls for "regular" in 1982 that meant leaded. Now that olnly unleaded gas is available does it matter what octane I use? And is one better for the bike than another?

ZooTech wrote:

JWF505 wrote:

Skier wrote:I would filter it out and throw it in my cage with a lot of fresh gas. No sense wasting it.

my thinking exactly, when gas is $3.08 a gallon for the cheap stuff i refuse to waste any of it.



JWF

Half a gallon of rusty gas running around your car's engine??? Hope you really like riding that bike of yours, cuz your cage is doomed.

BTW, I am paying ~$2.35/gallon for mid-grade at Shell, Sunoco, Marathon, and Kroger. Wal-Mart has 87-octane for $1.99 with a swipe of the Wal-Mart card.

Haha, are you serious? I would have not a single problem at all to filter the gas out with, say, a painter's filter, used for pouring paint into your HVLP gun's reservoir, then putting that in a car's gas tank. Poof, you have nice, filtered gas.

Let's assume the huge chunks don't get caught by the filter. Well, they have the in-tank pickup filter to get by. Let's assume that doesn't work, but there's a filter before the fuel pump. Let's assume that filter doesn't work. Well, most fuel pumps, mechanical or electrical, have some kind of internal screen.

All kinds of redundant systems, and adding 5% of the gas tank's capacity of this "bad" gas is not going to hurt a thing.

Hey, if you're driving a beater and don't mind a bunch of rust clogging up all those filters and screens, then have at it. I myself am driving an '05 with under 13k miles on it and won't be pouring any bad, rusty gas in my tank any time soon.

ZooTech wrote:Hey, if you're driving a beater and don't mind a bunch of rust clogging up all those filters and screens, then have at it. I myself am driving an '05 with under 13k miles on it and won't be pouring any bad, rusty gas in my tank any time soon.

No worries, then, since you're just pouring possibly bad gas into your tank. No huge rust-flakes in it, or even small ones, thanks to the filtering before it gets anywhere near the vehicle's gas tank, as I described.

And you could throw in that much plain old water into a full tank of gas and it shouldn't cause any problems at all, so the gas in question shouldn't be a problem at all.

Why not use the old gas for your lawn mower ? That's what I did with mine.

BeerBaron

peterman wrote:on the topic of gas I noticed that my 82 yamaha calls for "regular" in 1982 that meant leaded. Now that olnly unleaded gas is available does it matter what octane I use? And is one better for the bike than another?

All cars required unleaded gas in 1975. That's when Catalytic converters became mandatory. Since only unleaded could be used, the availability of leaded gas became less and less. BYy the 80's, leaded gas could not be found. All motors made from the mid 70's on up were designed with hardened valve seats to handle this. Your Yamaha is fine. My 1976 CB360 is fine.

If you don't like the environmentalist hippies you can stick it to em by dumping it in a river.

Vit0r wrote:If you don't like the environmentalist hippies you can stick it to em by dumping it in a river.

*slap upside the head*

You have to drink that water at some point.