What to do with old gas/getting ready for winter

[W_KY]

I've got some old mixed gas that I need to get rid of. It was mixed in the spring so I'm pretty sure I don't want to run it through my weedeater or chainsaw. I'd guess I have a gallon or two.

I also need to get my chainsaw and weedeater put away for the winter (I live in a rental now in TX so won't be needing those for awhile I imagine). Is it best to just dump the gas out of the tank and run them till all the gas is out of th line?

 

[csp]

With just a gallon or two pour it in one of your car's tanks.

I like to fill my tanks before winter, add Stabil and run the engines for a while so that treated gas is in the carb float bowl. A full tank is less likely to have condensation in it than an empty tank.

 

[brveagle]

old gas just pour on your weeds...

In terms of storing weedeater/chainsaw, I'd fill them up and add stabil. They'll be good for a year or two. Worse case scenario, you just have to clean the carb in the future.

 

[shoot summ]

I have no issue running gas that old, unless it has ethanol in it.

I do have an issue with dumping gas on weeds and the ground and polluting....

 

[CreekRat]

Good medicine for fire ant mounds but it's a little late in the year for that..

 

[millertime]

Pour some seafoam in the cans that have gas in them and put some seafoam in the machinery and run it so it gets into the carb. I do this with my equipment in the fall and everything starts up in the spring like I ran it all yesterday (the off season for lawn tractors and weed whappers can be long in Minnesota) I find seafoam to be an excellent fuel stabliser. Sta-bil for me has never worked.

 

[hetkind]

It either goes into the waste oil bucket for recycleing OR used as starter for bush piles. It NEVER gets poured on the ground...

I had trouble in Texas when my pond drained my neighbor's yard, and he was a SLOPPY mechanic. I had to bioremediate my pond to get rid of the oil film.

On the OTHER hand, putting oil filters on fence posts had some preservation properties.

Howard

 

[Licensed to kill]

If concerned, pour it in your car as csp suggested. I don't worry about it. My jerry can of mixed gas takes 2-3 years to use up and I've had no issues with storage for that length of time.....but I don't use blended gas. Used motor oil will not "preserve" wood. It actually accelerates deterioration.

 

[sledzz]

I have been putting old gas and 50-1 gas in my cars for years. I only put in half a gallon of mixed at a time though.

 

[brianvantol]

I may get sued for not providing safety instructions.

 

[jlckmj]

I'm with MILLERTIME, ad some sea foam and don't worry about it.
Jim

 

[brveagle]

I have no issue running gas that old, unless it has ethanol in it.

I do have an issue with dumping gas on weeds and the ground and polluting....

oh boo hoo. Go plug in your hybrid

 

[shoot summ]

oh boo hoo. Go plug in your hybrid

Nice reply, says alot about you....

I don't have a hybrid, guess I am a freak in your world because I don't want to pollute our ground water.

 

[Kentuckian]

A friend of mine decided to kill some weeds with old gasoline in the ditch behind his yard. He did it late one evening. About an hour later his subdivision was swamped with fire dept and police. Seems a neighbor had smelled the fumes and suspected a natural gas leak.

Long story short...he wound up paying a $500 fine for poluting the ground AND had to pay for the dirt to be removed and shipped away, then replaced with new dirt. The EPA contracted the dirt be dug to a depth of a couple feet in a pretty large area around the ditch.

Needless to say I decided to no longer use old gasoline to kill weeds along my fence row. I put it in my truck's gas tank a little at a time.

 

[PaulR]

I just starting adding the old 50-1 mixed stuff to my Trucks 30 gallon tank on the advice of people here. I do a half a gallon at a time and it doesn't seem to affect anything.

 

[y2knole]

oh boo hoo. Go plug in your hybrid

+1 to the list of people I'd not have a beer with.

 

[97Tahoe]

You can leave it alone, 2 cycle oil has a stabilizer in it, just like stabil. Screw hybrids.

 

[bochnak]

I run stabil year round in my small engines. Keep gas in cans no longer than 3 months or when seasons change. Old gas goes in my car's tank.

 

[Groovy]

Stabil it use a lil at a time. I was thinking I could put it in the old stoner down the way with his ill breed wana be thug kids bong.....

 

[PSYKO_Inc]

oh boo hoo. Go plug in your hybrid

Most hybrids don't plug in

Stabil it use a lil at a time. I was thinking I could put it in the old stoner down the way with his ill breed wana be thug kids bong.....

 

[Greatbear]

Go pour it on brveagle's lawn.