My car has been sitting for a while, since last July. I realise 9 months is probably "OK" gasoline wise, but, I pamper my baby.


Anyway, found threads about the topic, pointing me to the drain plug at the bottom of the gas tank.

seems simple enough! easy peasy.......but wait,

our tanks hold 20 gallons. I know I have a little less than half a tank, but still, where can I find a drain pan large enough? the several quart oil pans obviously out of the question, there is some 15 gallon pan online for 89 dollars (ha.)

furthering the challenge is my very small jack with limited height.

this was the final, probably very unsafe result:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B22...VRY3JVck0/view



kind of started out a joke during a conversation with a friend, "maybe i should just cascade them like fountain style, hahaha.....actually........".


a bit more helpful/realistic notes about gasoline draining:

-use gloves
-my plug was 17mm
-make sure you know how much gas to expect from the tank
-open the fill cap to allow air to flow during draining
-the drain plug is pretty forgiving, i.e., you can loosen it somewhat and have more of a trickle drain, which is how i started it. as the apparatus seemed stable, i loosened it more with a ratchet, and finally finished with my gloved hand. By angling your fingers downward the gas won't run up your hand/arm/sleeve, will just drip into the pan. i stayed considerably clean.
-once it was fully unscrewed, i removed it promptly (a simultaneous final-turn-and-removal of the plug), and the gas did not splash up my hand, and i did not lose the plug at the bottom of the pan (which was a fear of mine).



anyway, this worked like a charm. cheers

 

I siphoned most of mine out of the fuel pump hanger opening using


then drained what was left from the plug

 

This is good info, as I need to do this myself. Thanks for sharing.

 

Another option is to pull the high pressure fuel line up in the engine bay and run a hose off the nipple into your Jerry can and just jumper the relay to fill it un-jumper when almost full.

 

I just raised the car high enough to clear the standard Home Depot bucket and had fast hands. Worked good enough....

 

Here is a thought.

How about you reinstall the drain plug when the container you are using is full? Then when you have removed the full container and have a clean empty one under the drain plug remove it again and repat process until all fuel is removed from the tank.

This seriously should not need its own thread. LOL

 

Gas isnt going to go bad after 9 months.

 

Gasoline is good for at least a year. If you are worried put some fuel stabilizer in it.

 

Mines been sitting for a year and half

Might drain it and use for the lawn mower.

 

Old gas stinks. 9 mos? It'll probably run on it, but you'll want to run that all out before you tune.

The first stuff to evaporate off off the fuel is the lighter components that evaporate the easiest. That's the stuff that helps most with cold startup/cold drivability, and idle quality. So depending on how much of that is gone you'll find varying degrees of hard to start poor idle issues. But if you burn half or so of that off then it'll probably work ok after topping up with fresh fuel.

 

Had me laughing cause I usually take my old lawn mower gas and put it in my Cressida. That bitch will run on anything

 

I recently drained my gas after the car sat for 5+ years. I did the same thing. I jacked the car up high enough and got a couple of the cheap 5 gallon buckets from walmart to swap out. Had slightly over 10 gallons in the tank so while the second bucket was filling up I pumped the gas from the first bucket into a gas can. Then replaced the first bucket back.

You can slow down or speed up the rate it drains by taking off or putting on the gas cap. So while I was getting the first bucket transferred to a gas can I put the cap back on to slow it down and give me more time.

But as they said above 9 months is probably fine. I would just fill the rest of the tank up with new gas to mix with it and then take it a bit easy while you burn it all off.

After 5 or 6 years my gas didn't look bad at all. Tank looked good. I'm currently mixing it slowly into the tank of my tahoe (about a gallon for every 10). Doesn't seem to be affecting how the tahoe idles or runs at all.

 

The bucket was the first idea, but I only have my 1.5 ton 10 year old autozone jack and mini jackstands. The height in the video was the maximum I could raise the back..


I know it wouldve ran on 9 month gas---but i am not bringing it out of storage just yet, and rather than count on it only being a couple more months, I went the safe>sorry route. Remember, I originally only wante to have it stored for a few months, which ended up turning into .....going on 10 now.