Re: 1929 gray powdery substance found in fuel

Posted by Ernie Vitucci On 2022/7/5 13:34:24

Good afternoon...I see that you had not driven your Packard for eight months. I'm wondering if you were going for a drive with eight month old gas? If so, was the gas treated with anything like Stable or another treatment to help it go stale more slowly. My experience with gas that is more than a couple of months old is that cars and tanks don't like the stuff and run very poorly on it, as it can turn to scum (technical term). Others many jump in here, but I'm wondering if your problem is simply with the age of the gas and not the tank or fuel lines. If I'm going to lay up a car for a while, I tend to do it with an empty tank...Ernie in Arizona