Removing Water from Fuel System!

[RangerMan64]

I recently fueled up and my truck started running like crap. Fixed it with some Heet water remover. My question is how do I get all of the water out? Although I am able to let it idle now and drive it, it will only go up to 15 mph on a hill that I used to go up at 25 mph(residential). What should I do? Luckily I have all day tomorrow to fix the truck, I just need some help from all you guys.

Thanks, any suggestions are much appreciated!

 

[Wicked_Sludge]

dump in a few more bottles of heet and drive it untill almost empty. refuel (from a different station) and change your fuel filter.

 

[superdave1984]

I just pour in a bottle of rubbing alcohol.

 

[Wicked_Sludge]

bad.

first, you know topical rubbing alchohol is 30% water, right?

second, rubbing alchohol is isopropyl alcohol. the alcohol you want for displacing water (the kind contained in heet) is methyl alcohol (methanol).

i buy gallon jugs of air-brake antifreeze. its methanol and its cheaper than heet (per gallon of coarse).

 

[1996 fordranger 4x4 stx]

This whole WATER in peoples gas tanks really baffles me!! anyways I have NEVER needed to put that " heet " in my tank to remove water, I understand that it is possible to get water in your gas tank I just don't believe it happens as much as people think it is happening to them, what is your SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE? I think there is a lot of market driven bullshit about needing to remove water from your gas tank and even more bizare/funny as hell is to keep your gas from freezing LMAO

 

[Wicked_Sludge]

what is your SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE?

if i could turn up my $1300 parts and labor quote, would that do it for you?

 

[almostclueless]

If he put in heet and it ran better, there's at least some chance there WAS water in his truck.


I can say with near 100% certainty there have been no mass produced trucks that BURN water.

 

[PaleBlue90]

i used a couple bottles of this

i ran it till it was empty then filled it back up at a diffrent gas station

 

[Mark_88]

I use the STP fuel treatment that claims to remove moisture from the tank...it doesn't actually remove the water but bonds with it so it can be burned as fuel...

I only use it in winter since that is when freezing becomes an issue...water is heavier than gas so it sits at the bottom of the tank...

But there is a more scientific way to remove the water or tell if it's in the tank...remove the fuel pump or sending unit from the top of the tank and buy some water detector paste from a boating supply store...dip a probe into the tank and if the paste turns bright red then it's hit water...

To remove the water, insert a non-explosive (no kidding!) tube into the tank and use a non-explosive hand pump to pump the bottom of the tank into a pan...when you don't see anymore water in the pan, put some more paste on the probe and if it doesn't turn bright red your tank is clean...

 

[OilPatch197]

i used a couple bottles of this

i ran it till it was empty then filled it back up at a diffrent gas station

OMG those are HELLA 550'S!!!

btw I've never seen that valvoline stuff, HEET is everywhere.

 

[srteach]

Methyl alcohol always bonds with water (technically, it is aquaphillic) and the bonded water/alcohol is transported through the engine with the fuel system. If there is too much water, it can freeze and block the fuel delivery system.
The problem is more likely to be gunk in the bottom of the tank getting sucked into the fuel system.
As you were told before, put a few bottles of Methyl alcohol (HEET, Fuel dryer, whatever you call it) in the tank, run it until almost empty, refuel and put one bottle in and run it out. Then change the fuel filter.
Depending on the environment where you live, moisture may or may not condense in the station tank (or truck tank) from the air moisture.
A while back, a small station owner in my area was CAUGHT ON HIS OWN SECURITY CAMERAS adding water to his underground fuel tank for his station. He paid for repairs on a few cars and paid a fine. Later, after the story became widely known, he went bankrupt.
Small amounts of water in fuel is not usually a problem, but larger amounts can cause problems.

 

[pocket-rocket]

This whole WATER in peoples gas tanks really baffles me!! anyways I have NEVER needed to put that " heet " in my tank to remove water, I understand that it is possible to get water in your gas tank I just don't believe it happens as much as people think it is happening to them, what is your SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE? I think there is a lot of market driven bullshit about needing to remove water from your gas tank and even more bizare/funny as hell is to keep your gas from freezing LMAO

Besides coming from gas stations, water in the gas tank comes from running the tank low in cold weather. How? Condensation on the walls of the tank. That's why they say to keep the fuel tank as full as you can in winter. It's not a bad idea in the summer either since the fuel acts as a coolant for the fuel pump helping it to live longer.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

This whole WATER in peoples gas tanks really baffles me!! anyways I have NEVER needed to put that " heet " in my tank to remove water, I understand that it is possible to get water in your gas tank I just don't believe it happens as much as people think it is happening to them, what is your SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE? I think there is a lot of market driven bullshit about needing to remove water from your gas tank and even more bizare/funny as hell is to keep your gas from freezing LMAO

Not very scientific, but one day we got about 3" of rain, and it so happens that a local gas station lost a plug on the test port of one of their fuel tanks... not many that got that gas that day got very far. That was in a underground tank that was low on fuel and had a whole parking lot draining into it.

That gas station bought a lot of fuel filters and a couple fuel pumps and even a couple injectors.

 

[OilPatch197]

Doesn't the refineries or the oil companies put water absorbing products into the gasoline?(the additives)

I thought that was a major difference between the winter blend of gas and the summer, the winter has more antifreeze/water absorbing properties?

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Doesn't the refineries or the oil companies put water absorbing products into the gasoline?(the additives)

I thought that was a major difference between the winter blend of gas and the summer, the winter has more antifreeze/water absorbing properties?

Probably, I have never needed heet to properly burn regular fuel in winter.

The fuel line freezes up if I run E10 ethonol in my Ranger in the winter though, gotta dump some heet in it to keep it running long enough to correct my error and get some straight gas in it.