Sugar in gas tank, help!

[AmishMike]

Used to route the windshield spray hose up the bottom of the steering column aimed at the drivers seat. Then connect the motor to the brake light switch so it ran when you hit the brakes. Make sure the lines were empty, buying you time for the unsuspecting driver to leave the area before the joke is sprung.

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[Charles 236]

I laugh - but having restored my share of old vehicles, tractors, stationary engines and so on, gravel is your friend along with some thing like vinegar. Slosh, rinse, repeat............. then you pour in a gas tank sealer and slop that around in the dried out tank, pour the rest back into the can for the next tank and let the tank sit open for a couple of days.
You've just removed a lot of rust, sealed the inside of the tank and given it many more years of life. I've got a couple of tanks out there I did 20 years ago - still going strong, after that process. My nephew's 69 Javelin had some rust in the tank - it's still in good condition. I've got stationary engines with 80-90 year old tanks I did that with - still doing well.

I used a piece of chain to de-rust old gas tanks before sealing them. I just figured it would knock everything loose that could come loose, and sealer would keep everything else in place.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

I used a piece of chain to de-rust old gas tanks before sealing them. I just figured it would knock everything loose that could come loose, and sealer would keep everything else in place.

Exactly. I've used chains, cans of bolts, anything that can easily be removed again (no sand or anything gritty or dirty)

 

[Stuntman Mike]

I have read that people put stones or gravel into the tank, then attached it somehow to a concrete mixer and let it run for several hours.

 

[Rusty PW]

This is the stuff I used on motorcycle gas tanks. Works great.

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[Brokenpinata]

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[Gladiator Brad 704]

Drop it and clean it out good.

 

[Curt Oz]

And there were some that questioned why a locking gas cap was one of the first purchases I made for the new truck.

Same here. One of the first things I bought was a locking gas cap.
With 4 ex-wives and 1 crazy stalker I'm not taking any chances.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Same here. One of the first things I bought was a locking gas cap.
With 4 ex-wives and 1 crazy stalker I'm not taking any chances.

My ex is in Florida, we parted as friends and I'd actually trust her to borrow my truck. I did loan her my Comanche years ago when the Eagle she got in the divorce needed some work.

 

[biplaneguy]

one guy thought white gas was merely unleaded - it's kerosene

Ah, no. White gas is naptha. Put it in a device intended for kerosene and it will be an exciting experience.

 

[salvino]

But why would environmentalist cause him to waste gas

Maybe, because they see a Jeep as a gas guzzler and want to kill it.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Ah, no. White gas is naptha. Put it in a device intended for kerosene and it will be an exciting experience.

Lots of "definitions" and understandings depending on your age, the era we're talking about and so on.

I was talking about a guy who ended up with kerosene instead of GAS when he asked for white gas. He thought white gas was kerosene and stations around back then only knew regular gasoline and kerosene so when he asked for white gas - which should have been unleaded gas, he got kerosene and thought that is what was meant when he was told "use white gas". White gas is gasoline, not naptha.

From a lantern/camping web site -

Coleman white gas and kerosene are two different products. Coleman white gas is a liquid form of petroleum gas that is made from 100% light hydrotreated distillate. Its component includes cyclohexane, heptane, nonane, octane, and pentane.

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And that's different from Coleman fuel which is called "white gas.

That's what he should have gotten - unleaded, plain gas.

White gas for us, me, when I think of white gas is camp fuel.
So it depends on your perspective and timeframe.

Since some were still using old-time lanterns in that era, you saw both being used in lamps and it was deemed to be interchangeable for some things.
i recall buying white gas from a station for use in a gasoline lantern I had for camping in the 1980s. It was gasoline, not naptha.
My father-in-law was specific - no regular gas, no kerosene, no canned fuel - white gas from a station.
That thing worked for us for years - burned nice and bright, and enough heat that you didn't use it inside on a hot night.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Maybe, because they see a Jeep as a gas guzzler and want to kill it.

Look at any TV news story that involved a vehicle losing control, or hitting someone or whatever.
If it's a car, the story goes "the driver lost control and drove into the crowd"
But let it be an SUV and the story is written -
The SUV lost control and plunged into the crowd.

SUV= evil, bad, witchcraft
Car - the poor driver lost control.

 

[biplaneguy]

White gas for us, me, when I think of white gas is camp fuel.
So it depends on your perspective and timeframe.

Since some were still using old-time lanterns in that era, you saw both being used in lamps and it was deemed to be interchangeable for some things.
i recall buying white gas from a station for use in a gasoline lantern I had for camping in the 1980s. It was gasoline, not naptha.

True, packaged Coleman fuel is, I think, a newer thing. When I was younger you could still go to an Amoco station and get "clear unleaded", i.e. gasoline with no additives, but I don't think anybody sells such a thing any more, except for maybe the unleaded and non ethanol fuel sold in hardware stores for small engines. Ordinary gasoline will work in stoves and lamps designed for Coleman fuel, but with the additives it may not burn as cleanly, and may be less healthy to be around. If you look at a can of Coleman fuel it says (or at least did last time I looked) "V.M.P. Naphtha", which is kind of a vague term for light petroleum distallates (VMP stands for "Varnish Makers and Painters as it's also used as a solvent).

But either way, my original point is that it's not the same thing as and not interchangeable with kerosene.

 

[salvino]

Look at any TV news story that involved a vehicle losing control, or hitting someone or whatever.
If it's a car, the story goes "the driver lost control and drove into the crowd"
But let it be an SUV and the story is written -
The SUV lost control and plunged into the crowd.

SUV= evil, bad, witchcraft
Car - the poor driver lost control.

SUVs and guns are the most evil of all inanimate objects.

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