Really old gas

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spidernut
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Your car is a: 1979 Fiat Spider Automatic
Location: Lincoln, CA

Really old gas

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After a huge fiasco with the delivery of a refrigerator at my condo (the fourth replacement one and they sent the wrong one again), I decide that I needed to work on the project Fiat so I would feel like I got something done today. I didn't want my precious vacation day off to be a total bust.

So I pumped all the fuel out of the tank (2 year old gas that was orange in color), removed the tank, cleaned it, scraped off all the undercarriage goop, sanded it, repainted it, painted inside the trunk and put it all back together. After adding some fresh fuel, the car seems very happy and really revs up much faster and without the white smoke it had prior to draining that old and nasty gas! Vrooooooooom, vrooooooooom.

Next step....the dreaded smog test.
John G.
1979 Spider (Owned since 2000)
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2017 Spider (Owned since 2019)
Texasbull

Re: Really old gas

Post by Texasbull »

Gotta love old gas smell! Good luck on the smog test!
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