The Gasman's Winter time hints.

[Gasman]

If you have lived in snow and icey parts of our country all your life then this info might not help you. But for the younger croud, or new to very cold weather or even if you just need to know... i thought id share how i deal with my own gasoline issues in the winter.

Starting with the gas cans in your garage or shed that you use to keep the yard equipment running...that gas will start turning/going bad after about 3 months time, depending on the heat of your area so get rid of it.
What i do is take what gas i have in the two cans and combine them in one can. Now one of them was 2-stroke/mix but i dont worry about that. Take the empty can with you and go fill your car with freash gas and put a gallon of freash gas in the empty can. Go home and dump the mixed up old stuff in your cars gas tank. As long as were talking only 1 or 2 gallons its not going to make a difference to your car. It will burn, mixed with that freash has you just put in your tank. Now im not going to be responcable for your car if it only has a 4 gallon tank, its some hybrid, and you just filled it half full of bad gas. A little comman sense here please. I drive a nissan coupe and it has a small tank but i dont ha e a probkem with this. But in my opinion, most cars have a big enough tank that 1 or 2 gallons of old gas with a touch of oil is not going to matter.

Now i have one can with a gallon of freash gas so i dump half of it into the empty can so that i have two cans with 1/2 gallon in each. I add the proper amount of mix/oil in one can so i can get good gas in my weedeater as it runs on 2-stroke. I will dig out the oil changing pan that i have and dump whatever i can out of the weedeater and lawn mower into the oil changing pan. I recommend doing this in the dirt or street. Not your new concrete driveway or grassy yard as it always seems to make a little spill. Clean up your mess.

I then add whatever winterizing product i like to use to my freash gas cans. Im not going to get into what is the best product to use. You can figure that on your own. Ask friends or neibours or whatever. Fill your mower and weedeater or whatever equipment your getting ready with the properly winterized freash fuel and run the machine for 10 minutes or so. This gets the good stuff into the machine. Shut it off. Drian the tanks again from the machine into the oil change pan.

Now you have treated your equipment so put it way. Take the gas that is still left in the cans and oil change pan and dump those in you car fuel tank. Now you have desposed of the bad, old gas, primed your equipment with good treated gas and filled your car.

As far as treating your car...
I will treat a full tank of fuel twice a year. But i only let the tank go about half empty throughout the winter time. This keeps a little treatment in you tank at all times. After a few tank fulls of gas ill treat it again as if it had no treatment left in it.

So if you have any questions and comments, or maybe you do thing differently post them up. Sorry about going on so long but i couldnt figure a better way of doing it. And if im waisting my breath then so be it. Maybe it might help one guy out so he dont have a break down.