Path: ...!news.tomockey.net!news.samoylyk.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: alt.home.repair,rec.autos.tech Subject: Re: water in gas tank Date: 2 Apr 2025 19:19:53 GMT Lines: 13 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net uq5TNfIOG7FuGqCiHTXsMQQkiN93h0/dqkxl9lrpH91dxhnlKi Cancel-Lock: sha1:RrCarXfz9xMDzN20YX72c0rfMbU= sha256:wtUCSYK48JbwZdUfLOEsVYMf2xIpHMSwbNCHpFmMEj4= User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Bytes: 1369 On Wed, 2 Apr 2025 11:07:00 -0700, The Real Bev wrote: > Used to be standard. I've done it. I remember putting perhaps a gallon > of the drained water/gas mixture in a glass bottle and taking it back to > the gas station and screaming at the attendant. I never found a problem but part of the pre-flight inspection on light planes was pulling a sample from a drain cock to make sure your Cessna wasn't flying on water. I had a '82 Yamaha Seca that had a graceful looking tank. The problem was all four corners were low spots that accumulated water and would eventually rust out.