mrvette
Phantom of the Opera
well, the vette was flat bedded about 5 miles a couple daze ago, on account
of I ran it lo on gas with the new gauges in there....so that thing has been
running/idling like crap, shakes the whole car around, and as you may
remember it's been a highly intermittant PIA for several years now....and
so the use of Techron seemed to 'cure' it and as long as I ran Techron
specifically, it was fine....more or less....certainly one hell of a lot
better than without it.....
well this time around Linda showed up with 5 gallons.....poured it in the
tank, and so ran the fuel pump, thought so anyway....ran engine for about
30 seconds, got ready to drive home, and engine died, and refused to
restart......ran the fuel pump , at least thought so, to recirculate
gas...and still no go....this on the side of I 295 and 103rd st...so we get
the AAA flatbed to the house...and I run the pump for sure, and check with
pressure gauge and listen to it run here in the driveway.....
and it's rough as a cob.....not just one cylinder, but a raggedy assed idle
that's all fucked up....
so I got disgusted and left it alone yesterday....today I pulled the line on
the bottom and drained the tank, the 4 gallons came out nice and yellow
looking like piss, and smelled of gasoline....
in the bottom of the tank looking through the filler up top, with a
flashlight, that gas still in there about a inch deep....looked
milky...cloudy.....so I vacuumed it all out with the shop vac....do not do
that without many precautions....EVER....so it's in a clean glass now, and
looking like a cloudy mix of shit, that don't smell like GAS or Anything,
except funky......
so went to the station for 4 gallons of fresh fuel after drying out the tank
but good and proper....
and car ran fine....went up to top it off, and then again for a beer
run....runs better than it has for a long time....NO Techron at this point
in time...guess I will know in a week or so......
another bout of water in the tank with this car.....makes me wonder WTF is
going on....
tempted to get a locking gas cap.....
What is the difference between Ethanol and Methanol.....except the M on it....
I tried some quart of Denatured Alky in it like from a paint store...
and this glass full of shit does not have a strong odor of gas OR alky...
smell like funky crap though.....
:stirpot::chinese:
of I ran it lo on gas with the new gauges in there....so that thing has been
running/idling like crap, shakes the whole car around, and as you may
remember it's been a highly intermittant PIA for several years now....and
so the use of Techron seemed to 'cure' it and as long as I ran Techron
specifically, it was fine....more or less....certainly one hell of a lot
better than without it.....
well this time around Linda showed up with 5 gallons.....poured it in the
tank, and so ran the fuel pump, thought so anyway....ran engine for about
30 seconds, got ready to drive home, and engine died, and refused to
restart......ran the fuel pump , at least thought so, to recirculate
gas...and still no go....this on the side of I 295 and 103rd st...so we get
the AAA flatbed to the house...and I run the pump for sure, and check with
pressure gauge and listen to it run here in the driveway.....
and it's rough as a cob.....not just one cylinder, but a raggedy assed idle
that's all fucked up....
so I got disgusted and left it alone yesterday....today I pulled the line on
the bottom and drained the tank, the 4 gallons came out nice and yellow
looking like piss, and smelled of gasoline....
in the bottom of the tank looking through the filler up top, with a
flashlight, that gas still in there about a inch deep....looked
milky...cloudy.....so I vacuumed it all out with the shop vac....do not do
that without many precautions....EVER....so it's in a clean glass now, and
looking like a cloudy mix of shit, that don't smell like GAS or Anything,
except funky......
so went to the station for 4 gallons of fresh fuel after drying out the tank
but good and proper....
and car ran fine....went up to top it off, and then again for a beer
run....runs better than it has for a long time....NO Techron at this point
in time...guess I will know in a week or so......
another bout of water in the tank with this car.....makes me wonder WTF is
going on....
tempted to get a locking gas cap.....
What is the difference between Ethanol and Methanol.....except the M on it....
I tried some quart of Denatured Alky in it like from a paint store...
and this glass full of shit does not have a strong odor of gas OR alky...
smell like funky crap though.....
:stirpot::chinese: