Tank full of horror!, Is it safe to start? Options

[Mike D.]

In California, our gas starts to go bad in about 2 weeks. Read a report recently in the AAA mag that stated the adatives (basically water) start to separate from the gas in as little as two weeks!

And BTW, don't use a shop vac to get the gas out either! - yep, I'm still alive! - (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) but a little dizzy (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif)

-Mike D.

[smg914]

I was in a Lowes Home Center the other day and I noticed a table with a bunch of items on sale. I saw a few packages with hoses in them that had siphon pump printed on the package. And it was non electric, no batteries and no mechanical mechanism. Just a brass fitting on one end with a marble sized ball bearing inside the brass fitting. I always wanted something to pump fuel out of my fuel cell in the race car after it sat for a month or two. So I purchased the pump. All you do is put the end with the bearing into the cell or tank with the fuel in it and start shaking it up and down and all of a sudden the fuel starts shooting out of the hose like a garden hose. Within about a minute and a half the cell was empty. I emptied the fuel into one of my 5 gallon fuel containers I take with me to the race tracks and then put it in my Jeep. If the fuel was anything older than a year old, I don't think I would even put it in my lawn mower.