This fall I retired our forty five year old gas barrel that had never been drained since it was new, that I know of. I retired it because it was too big for my purposes and the fuel sat in there too long. I was filling it half full twice a year so there was plenty of time for condensation to form.
It had a top mounted pump. It held 10% ethanol the last ten years. When I finally got the drain plug out of it to get the last of the gas out of the bottom of it about ten gallons of clean gas came out followed by about one gallon of rusty gas at the very end. There was no sludge, no water. I kept the ten gallons and put it in the tractors. They ran fine with no water in the sediment bulbs. I used the rusty gas to light a fire and it lit up in a flash. This was a 550 gallon barrel.
On the other hand, I have to use Sea Foam in my small engines now to un-gunk the carbs and I never used to have to do that years ago. I know it's because of the poor quality gasoline we have today, but shouldn't the alcohol in the gasoline clean that up?Jim
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