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Rich G
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Initially Posted - 11/15/2005 : 22:05:15

I still have about 1-1/2 gallons of 2 stroke fuel left in my dinghy motor fuel tank. What do I do with it? I have no back yard and therefore no weed-whacker or lawnmower or chainsaw or any other 2 stroke engine to put it in.

How do I dispose of it?

Rich

Cerberus
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1984 SR/FK No Pop-Top

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lcharlot
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Response Posted - 11/16/2005 : 00:58:57

If you are in no particular hurry to get rid of it quickly, maybe you could gradually add it to the gas tank in your car over the winter, a few ounces of the dinghy gas per several gallons of fill-up in the car. Seems to me that if it's diluted like that your car's engine will never notice it.

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dlucier
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Response Posted - 11/16/2005 : 01:29:41

Give it to someone who has a 2 stroke snowblower.

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ClamBeach
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Response Posted - 11/16/2005 : 09:53:37

1-1/2 gallons of 50:1 premix? That only contains about 2.5 oz of a highly-refined, combustable oil. Put it into 20 gallons and you've got about a 1000:1 mix. Engine won't know it's there.

If you want to be conservative, or have a smaller gas tank in your car, split it up into 2 or 3 pours. (as Larry suggested)

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Ray Seitz
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Response Posted - 11/16/2005 : 12:22:42

I agree with Larry and Bruce dilute it and use it. I do the same with my chain saw gas.

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At Ease
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Response Posted - 11/16/2005 : 14:27:42

Put some Sta-Bil in it and use it in your outboard next season. I had some gas in a houseboat that was six years old, used very little each summer, but put Sta-Bil in it every year...continued to work fine.

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tinob
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Response Posted - 11/16/2005 : 15:08:01

Hi Rich,

You probably won't have a problem using it in your car as advised by others. In a previous post dealing with 2 stroke gas it was advised that such fuel might cause catalytic converter problems, but 1 1/2 gallons, I don't think so. Perhaps with a steady diet of such a blend it would be ill advised.
I use it in an old Ford "N" tractor, no converter, no problem.

Val on the hard DAGNABIT

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osmepneo
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Response Posted - 11/16/2005 : 16:12:24

I use my left over gas in my lawn tractor and would use it in the generator if there was apower failure. Dilute it of course. Have never had a problem.

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Keith D.
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Response Posted - 11/16/2005 : 22:56:19

I use my old 2 stroke gas in the lawn mower. I don't even dilute it, it runs just fine in there and hasn't fouled a plug yet. I think it actually likes it. I have had the same mower and edger for 35 years now and they still start with one pull.

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Aldo
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Response Posted - 11/16/2005 : 23:35:21

You <b>can</b> over-do it in a car if you don't dilute it. I used to always use-up my 2-stroke fuel in my cars, and mixed about a gallon or so into 20 gallons, but one time my tank was about empty and I added over 6 gallons and that was not good. It did foul the spark plugs. The car was an old 1976 Pontiac station wagon with a 400 engine. We bought another car soon after this, unrelated to the fouling problem, but ever since then, I have used stabilizer and just keep the fuel over the winter. In the spring, I add fresh fuel and oil to fill the tank, and everything is fine. Stabilizer does work fine, but I'm still kind of nuts about keeping carburetors clean. I drain them over the winter because with 2 boat motors, and several motorcycles with 2 or 4 carbs, and everything else, I could spend all of my time in the spring cleaning carbs, which isn't much fun. I look forward to the day that I don't have to think about what to do with the fuel-oil mix over the winter. (I just remembered I forgot to stabilize and drain the lawn tractor).

Aldo

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OJ
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Response Posted - 11/18/2005 : 13:57:33

FWIW, my son unknowly poured our chain saw gas mixture into our 4 cycle lawn mower - didn't skip a beat . . .

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thaind
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Response Posted - 11/20/2005 : 10:27:59

I use it in my 4-stroke snow blower. The small amount of smoke keeps the snow flies away.

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jwilliams
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Response Posted - 11/21/2005 : 14:42:19

Find a friend with a US Army 5ton Multifueler...also give him all your used cooking oil, outdated perfume, bad hooch, parts cleaner, kerosene and jet fuel.

I am really thinking about that diesel engine conversion to cooking oil thing. Stop at the local burger flip. Free fuel for the old Mercedes. Smelling like french fries while going down the road. What would Kerouac have to say about that?

Jim Williams
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