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Old 09-29-2014, 01:31 PM   #16
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Default Re: Water in your Gas ? - Solutions ?

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Originally Posted by whirnot View Post
If it is water in your fuel, I would suspect that where you bought the fuel may have a leak into the tank. I have seen that happen before.
During College I worked on the flight line at Danbury Airport. Every morning we smeared this paste that changed color in contact with water on the end of a very long dip stick and we had to test the under ground gas storage tanks for water. We had to keep a written log of our findings. Even with all these precautions you would never even get into a plane without first draining some gas out of the bottom of each tank (most planes have at least two) to check for water. I can't imagine they would put ethanol in aviation gas.
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