Bad Gas

[MitchTheFridge]

So I ran my truck outta gas and I had a skidoo that I had just boughten the same day in the box of my 09 5.7L hemi and I siphoned the gas from it to put in my truck and it turned out to be bad gas. Since then it's been basically in a limp mode type state, I cant accelerate or do anything past 60kmh, it stalls, it sputters, it's doing all sorts of things that do not sound good. I dont have a clue what I should do. Any suggestions???

 

[GTyankee]

Put in a few gallons of the highest premium gas in your area

There is a product that is suppose to help get rid of water in gas, i don't know the name of it

This corn gas that they forced us to use, not only has a lot of water in it, it gums things up & corrodes metal.
That is the reason that all gas tanks are plastic now

 

[Jeepwalker]

 

[turkeybird56]

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^^^ DITTO ^^^

 

[kurek]

Just put gas in it. Doesn't need to be premium. All you need to do is dilute the stale gas and drive.

There's nothing wrong with ethanol fuel, that has nothing to do with any of this whatsoever.

 

[GTyankee]

The way i see it is that that corn gas may have been in the SKIDOO for a period of months.
Therefore the gas that was in it is absolute crap

The Ram's fuel tank contents has to be revitalized
The method that i mentioned above, would be the method that i would use.

The carburetor & tank on the Skidoo has to be carefully cleaned out, before you even attempt to start it

The corn gas ruined my big generator that i use when the power goes out in my apartment building, i use it to supply electricity to 2 refrigerators, 2 large freezers & some lights in a couple apartments, it keeps every ones perishables safe.
Those carburetors are expensive !!

 

[turkeybird56]

All I can say is: Friggin ethanol fuel, who needs it. Stop it, go back to regular fuel, grow more corn, process it ship it and just maybe we can feed some more PPL. Just a thought.

Rather feed the corn to PPL than in my gas tank. ALL IMHO.....

 

[rule18]

More corn = more Bourbon.

 

[HEMIMANN]

You should drain your tank / siphon. Don't run that crap through your expensive injectors.

I think @GTyankee is saying use a tank or so of the highest detergent additive in your area. Usually the oil companies only spike their premium octane gas to this level. Shell was found to be the highest Top Tier gas surveyed some years ago. The other thing some oil companies do is offer nonoxy gas only in premium octane (to make more money), so he's suggesting to use only nonethanol gas, which is good if you can do it in your area. In my state it is illegal to use it in anything other than small power sports engines......lawn mowers, chainsaws, ATV's, etc.

 

[kurek]

All I can say is: Friggin ethanol fuel, who needs it. Stop it, go back to regular fuel, grow more corn, process it ship it and just maybe we can feed some more PPL. Just a thought.

Rather feed the corn to PPL than in my gas tank. ALL IMHO.....

Oh man... can we stop this BS already?

You eat dairy and meat, your meat and dairy eats corn. Specifically it eats the high protien, high vitamin, easy to store, easy to transport, easy to dispense leftovers from removing all the sugar from corn.

If you want to pay a whole lot more for meat and eggs and dairy, by all means stop finding a good use for all that sugar and start feeding animals fast-rotting, more difficult to distribute whole grain. Right now we turn that sugar into fuel which burns cleaner than petroleum and doesn't contribute nearly as much to climate change because it's a short cycle hydrocarbon, not pulling more carbon out of the ground.

Come on man you're smarter than this.

 

[GTyankee]

I just did some research
i did not realize that a skidoo fuel tank could have a capacity of 4 to 15 gallons

I sure hope that the original poster only put in enough gas to get to the nearest gas station

 

[turkeybird56]

Oh man... can we stop this BS already?

You eat dairy and meat, your meat and dairy eats corn. Specifically it eats the high protien, high vitamin, easy to store, easy to transport, easy to dispense leftovers from removing all the sugar from corn.

If you want to pay a whole lot more for meat and eggs and dairy, by all means stop finding a good use for all that sugar and start feeding animals fast-rotting, more difficult to distribute whole grain. Right now we turn that sugar into fuel which burns cleaner than petroleum and doesn't contribute nearly as much to climate change because it's a short cycle hydrocarbon, not pulling more carbon out of the ground.

Come on man you're smarter than this.

TY

 

[GTyankee]

Oh Well.

Petroleum is replaced by a biproduct of corn, it messes up motorcycles & other small engines.

Now Beef is being replaced by a biproduct of Yellow Peas
Maybe we are going to blow out the bases of our toilets

Fortunately the urge for split pea hit at noon and there was no doubt the cause of incredible flatulence, no beer involved, the only culprit was the split pea!

 

[HEMIMANN]

Ethanol does not burn cleaner than petroleum - they both burn clean when paired with today's catalytic converters. Further, ethanol requires ground water to process that petroleum does not. And ethanol combustion produces aldehydes (pollutant) that petroleum does not.

Takes a lot of petroleum to grow, harvest, and distill corn, a food, into ethanol. Best read up prior to commenting.

 

[kurek]

Best read up prior to commenting.

Best to not assume everyone's research was interrupted when facebook went down.

You know that aldehydes are just a scary sounding name for "things that have carbon, oxygen and hydrogen in them" .. that's the same as when someone tries to make water sound scary by calling it dihydrogen monoxide.

Net energy balance for production of ethanol has been positive for decades, which anyone who has actually "read up" would already know. And that's before taking into account the coproduction of livestock feed and commercial enzymes used in detergents, and the wax and lacquer products and cellulose packaging products all derived fromt he same crop.

I did not just wake up this morning with a hardon for ethanol. I have been having this tired old conversation for years and years. It's exhausting.

 

[retired]

My buddy worked at the bulk mixing plant and said regular has exactly the same detergents as premium and the only difference is octane. He said in the old days that was not te case but it is now. He also said Cenex had the highest standards at least west of the Mississippi

 

[SYKRAMMAN]

doesn't contribute nearly as much to climate change

I love the Al Gore platitudes.

 

[jejb]

The corn gas ruined my big generator that i use when the power goes out in my apartment building, i use it to supply electricity to 2 refrigerators, 2 large freezers & some lights in a couple apartments, it keeps every ones perishables safe.
Those carburetors are expensive !!

It may have contributed to it, but this same thing happened even in the days before ethanol. I run all my generators (3) and several gas powered toys and tools dry before putting them away, or drain the carb bowls. So I've never had this issue with ethanol or non-ethanol fuel. Ethanol does pull in moisture, so can go bad a little faster. But if you run them dry, you wont' have an issue with clogged carbs from bad fuel.

 

[bcbouy]

why is everyone yammering on about ethanol?the op never said the skidoo even had ethanol in it?? nobody in their right mind runs ethanol in their small engines anyway.

 

[PolarisCobra]

My guess is that snowmobile had been sitting for a number of years. Doesn't matter if the gas was E10 or not, it would not have been fresh.

I agree that the best first thing to do is fill the tank with fresh gas, whatever he normally uses. After a tank or two, it will likely be fine.