Posted: 6/27/2001 1:09:43 PM EDT
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Does anyone know the shelf life of Coleman fuel? I was looking through some of my dusty camping supplies and came across a few gallons of this stuff from about 2 yrs ago. I wouldn't want to use it if it bad and may just replace it because it is pretty inexpensive. But if it is ok to use then it will save me a trip to the store! Thanks. Brian |
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Quoted: Regular gas must have more impurities which is why it goes bad. Before Y2K there was a long discussion on Frugals about fuel storage. What happens with regular gas is that it breaks down and gets attacked by bacteria. The colonies can be seen by whitish strands in the fuel. The max shelf life of unleaded is somewhere around 6 months before it starts to degrade, 1 year if you add a stabilizer like STABIL. I used some 6 and 8 month unpreserved unleaded and it seemed to work ok, but then again I was mixing 5 gal of stored with 10 gal of new. |
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Originally Posted By Imbrog|io: Quoted: Regular gas must have more impurities which is why it goes bad. Before Y2K there was a long discussion on Frugals about fuel storage. What happens with unleaded gas is that it breaks down and gets attacked by bacteria. The colonies can be seen by whitish strands in the fuel. The max shelf life of unleaded is somewhere around 6 months before it starts to degrade, 1 year if you add a stabilizer like STABIL. I used some 6 and 8 month unpreserved unleaded and it seemed to work ok, but then again I was mixing 5 gal of stored with 10 gal of new. |
| me and some friends were camping and we got our fire rained out, in a abandoned trailer we found a campstove to cook on, it hadent been toughed for at least 10 years. had half a tank of fuel. it worked for to meals. then it got a little "f"ed up. but the fuel worked fine |
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Quoted: Thanks guys. What is the difference between white gas and coleman fuel? They both work in my truck. The local Hazmat site gives stuff away and they usually have lots of camp stove & lantern fuel on hand. My 4.3L Chevy V6 runs fine on it and it beat paying $2.01 a gallon for unleaded. PS.. Naptha works too but my car pool partner wishes I wouldnt run it in the truck. |