Every once in a while someone will chime in with a knock on using fuel older than a
few months and all the trouble that it causes.
To that I say..............BUNK!!!!!
I started an experiment way back in 2013 to test out this myth. I took samples of E-85 which
is all we've had in this part of the country for decades, and stored it in a variety of different ways.
I had the samples sitting out in the sun for the whole first summer. The open container eventually
evaporated, the sealed containers changed color. I saw no settling or separation and in the evaporated
sample there was no residue left in the jar.
This photo is what is left of the 20 gallons that was in my 1997 GMC when I parked it in 2013.
I recently, this past month, drained it out to begin work on the truck to get it running again:
http://www.pbase.com/dennygraham/image/166516193/largeWhat do you do with 20 gallons of four year old, supposedly "stale" E-85???? Well you burn it in your
new Silverado, that's what you do with it. I've been adding it a couple of gallons at a time when I fill up
my 2014 Chevy with no ill effects. I also used some of it in my lawn mower this fall, which also ran fine.
The photo is of the last couple of gallons. So.... that was fifty bucks worth of fuel that I didn't have to
waste away in my brush fire..
So much for the myth that fuel goes bad and is unusable after a few months. And by the way, that
20 gallons from the GMC did not have Sta-bil in it when it got parked in 2013.
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL
Got to credit chuckthetruck with correcting my posting E-85 when I meant 10% alcohol. Thanks Chuck.
