Hello, Water keeps getting in my gas tank and messing up my carb. This is the third carb. I put a new gas cap on. That's a new fuel pump on there too. Any suggestions on how it keeps gettin in there and what I can do to keep it from happening again. Thanks
Pretty sure the only ways in would be down the gas hole, like Comet Fever said, the breather mounted on the top of the tank, or maybe where the tank meets the gooseneck for the gas hole... I have a locking gas cap on mine. It was pretty inexpensive
Might help to buy your fuel at a different station. With the mandated use of ethanol, this is a real problem. If there's water or moisture in ethanol blended fuel, it'll turn the fuel milky white. Where you at in Louisiana ? Where you buying your gas ? You can still get ethanol free gas here if you know where to look. We sell it at the bulk plant I haul fuel for in Opelousas.
Ditto Baddad^^^ Water in the fuel at the source...Try a different station...With the ethenol content, you may need to run a fuel conditioner to keep the fuel from becoming useless. Only have 10 percent ethenol here so its not an issue...15 percent fuels seem to be the ones with water problem.
So far as I know, we don't have E15 (or higher) here yet. All the Ethanol blends here are E10. But that doesn't keep the water problem from popping up, I've encountered water that comes straight out of the loading racks many times. And with the high water tables here along the gulf coast, it gets into the underground storage tanks that way too. The fuel pickup tubes in the tanks are situated at least 8" off the tank bottoms, so the stations need to pump water out before it gets to that level if they keep on top of the problem like they're supposed to. But with ethanol blended fuel, all that goes out the window as the ethanol readily absorbs water.
Nope, that's what they're putting into DEF (Diesel Exhaust Fluid) Another "better idea" from your "friendly" EPA.
I bought a car once that had enough orange soda in the tank to fill a couple two liter bottles, needless to say it was sabotaged...
water in tank hey thanks, just saw this message. sorry.... I am in new orleans. Not sure if that is close to you. I did take your advice and bought a locking cap. Thanks alot
water in tank I live in new orleans. I'll try that as well. I think I saw an ethanol free gas station in harahan off jefferson hwy.
I know there are a few down there, I see some of the Nawlins based transports loading conventional gas up the river at Placid in Port Allen. I don't load at the racks down there anymore, but you can load it at at least half the racks around here. You won't find it at the "branded" stations,(Chevron, Shell, Texaco, Exxon Mobil, etc) they're all selling ethanol blended gas now. I run about a 50/50 mix of Chevron 93/ conventional 91 in my Comet, so far I've yet to have any problems from the ethanol in the Chevron 93 becuase of it. And my Comet only gets driven once-twice a month, and I've got three carbs on it.
Three carbs? I was having trouble with my one. lol But you are right, the branded stations are horrible. My tank does not like that at all.
