Water In Fuel

[pauljm]

HI raiders.... with all the talk about fuel and water in recent threads i thought i would add that i was always told that if i suspected i had water in my fuel to add metho to the tank which soaks up the water? Can anyone confirm or deny this? Remember draining water from carbies in a southerly inside the banks many years ago.....not much fun at all but we got home......

[pelican]

put a water separating fuel filter on if you are at all worried

Yes metho ( ie ethanol) will absorb a small quantity of water

Is it a good thing to do - in a very small quantity possibly will not do much harm but the general answer is use a filter and get good fuel to start with and fix any possible area where water can get into fuel. Meth dissolves oils and changes them so if it is a premix be very careful. Avoid it and most fuel traetments.

In some of the late model carby motors it can take only a small amount of water to stop them running and in some injected motors can damage injectors. Manufacturers seem to have forgotten the carby drains as well on late model motors.

Edited April 29, 2009 by pelican

[ETTY]

Any alkanol be it methanol or ethanol will attract water. But if you add these, you'll still have to get rid of them by the use of a fuel filter otherwise you are just going to put both the water and alkanol through your engine.

[Flightmanager]

+1 to all the above answers.

If you are getting water in your fuel , find out where it is coming from and fix it . Prevention is better than cure.

Ross

[strewth]

And don't leave your tank unfilled - this stops condensation.