How To Remove Water From Your Gas
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- Опубліковано 10 лип 2024
- Is water in your fuel causing your small engine equipment to fail? Do fuel additives really work? Over 50% of carburetors I pull off have water in them. Check out this video to see if 4 of the most common fuel additives truly work - STP, Seafoam, Methyl Hydrate and K-100.
All 4 of these products claim to reduce or remove water or moisture from your gas. Let's see if this stuff works.
Why do you care? Water or condensation causes rust. The rust could eventually cause your carb to plug up and the engine will not start. This could get costly.
Warning: do not use methyl hydrate in a 2 stroke 2 cycle engine (such as your chainsaw or weedeater) where you mix gas and oil. I'll explain why.
Remember: water in your engine is a symptom. Why is there water in your fuel in the first place?
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Looks like you really went above and beyond the call of duty to procure your test beakers.
Research like that shows us how dedicated you are to the craft; thanks for taking five, I mean one for the team.
the water was being absorbed into the skin of his finger when he shook the bottles lol
Thank you for taking the time to make this video. My gas hose was left exposed to a 5" + rainstorm. I forgot to drain it prior to fueling my riding mower. After siphoning 2 gallons of gas with 2 inches of water, I poured 2 bottles of HEAT in and used a syringe to inject HEAT into the carburetor bowl. Started up ran rough for 30 seconds or so, then took off and ran as normal. I used HEAT because, as you stated, "must say removes water". It does and it did.. Again, Thank you.
I bought some STP gas treatment for some bad kerosene in my heater. Added a few drops to the tank this evening. Will add more fresh kerosene tomorrow and try lighting it. Thank you for sharing this video.
I had a problem with a surging motor and I found one of your videos last week. I am very impressed with your work. Excellent advice with a little humor. I will be going back through your older videos and watching plus any others you make. Thank you. Great job.
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This was just what I needed to find out. I stopped by a gas station to top off my tank and 3 miles down the road the engine stopped and would not crank back up. Just ordered some STP water removal to get myself back on the road after AAA brought me back home. Thank you Steve!
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Thank You Steve ... one of the most concise demonstration/tests I have ever seen on UA-cam. Very informative. No extra babble or guesswork. Nicely done ! !
Wow, thanks!
Hey Steve. We have a tree service in south central texas and and wanna give a big thanks to you for all of your wisdom. Youve been a big help.
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That was a great show Steve you’re the man keep up the good work I watch your show every time it comes out.
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Thanks Steve, very informative. I’ve been using the STP product and I’m happy to see you’ve proved that it works.
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As far as ratios of water to gas and using the recommended ratio of additive to gas, this is the best one I've seen. Thanks for doing it the way you did.
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cool video. I had bought and put in the STP before is even this. I think I'll be happy qith the results.
Wow!! I had no idea the products would work so well. Thanks for the great content Steve.
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Thank you for an excellent educational video. The comparisons of all the manufacturers additives saved me a lot of "trial and error" work. Carry On Sir!
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Awesome test, love the close up shots of the water and after the treatment! A nice treatment after the winter season.
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Best test I've seen yet Steve, very well done. In another vid it was shown that Sea Foam wasn't as effective but apparently it has high "lubricity" and preservation qualities to prevent breakdown of fuel over time.
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very good and informative. Im going with the methal hydrate
WOW! I loved the test - loved your honest surprise about each products claims and results. Definitely subscribing. 😀
Yay! Thank you!
I love watching your videos, hope you never stop making them, so informative and funny.
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Thanks for the tip on water removing products. I was using ethanol blended gas and let it set for a month. When I finally fired it up it wouldn,t hardly run. I have putting up with my bad running engine for a couple of weeks and today I put in some STP gas treatment, and am using ethanol free gas. Engine runs fine today, knock on wood. Thanks again for the test run on water removing products.
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Great unbiased test. I enjoy your real advice and tip.
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But Steve you R on point. I just fell into your words. For someone never fried an egg, never worked a stove. You go through steps in sequence to cook the egg. My dad would explain how things to be done. Right way😉. Q: When E & I realized water was in mower tank, would not start. Did this do anything to my sparkplug. New gas now, but still not starting.signed "Need my grass cut," Help A.Smith
Thanks Steve, this is the best test I have watched so far, watched other similar tests in which both sta-bil and star-tron failed.
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I love seeing you doing science.
Really do.
Thanks for doing this, steve!
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Extremely interesting and useful experiment, Steve. I do have a few thought to share. First, the water was already in the fuel BEFORE putting in any of the additives. If I personally encounter fuel that has water already in it and it is for a small engine, I don't bother trying to make that fuel useful again. I dump it and get fresh fuel. I don't see that it is practical to put additives into a gallon of small engine fuel in order to get rid of water that is discovered to be in the gas.
Second, the way people want to use any of these additives is to mix the additive into the supply of small engine fuel at the time the fuel obtained, with the additive then being expected to PREVENT water from ever forming in the fuel. Stopping water from forming in fuel is an entirely different situation than removing water that is already present in fuel, at least in my mind it is. Unfortunately, nothing about this experiment demonstrates that putting any of these additives into a fresh batch of fuel will prevent water from building up from condensation or other causes over an extended period of time.
I store my small engine fuel outdoors in one gallon plastic cans. The temperature changes, rain, and other conditions can allow small amounts of water to form or get into the gas over time. Thus what I want to know is how effective these additives would be over a two to four week period of time in keeping fuel free of water that forms on a repeating basis. We don't know if there might be a saturation point reached where these additives would then fail to prevent further water from forming in the gas. Perhaps you could do an experiment where the additives were mixed with pure fuel at the start than a small amount of water was added to each fuel container every day or two for a period of 30 days. It would be much more useful to know if any of these additives would still keep the fuel free of water at the end of a month. For those of us don't do a lot of mowing, a gallon of fuel might last 30 days and we don't want water in it at the end of that time.
What I learned from this experiment in your video was still highly useful because if I fill my vehicle up with a full tank of gas and discover there is a little water in the gas that I purchased, I can easily get the water out using one of these additives and don't have to drain the tank or lose the fuel. I was very impressed with all these additives.
Great video. Thanks for sharing.
Excellent video Steve, Thank you
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I was impressed that the STP did the job with the least amount. Great video.
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Great Illustration!👍🏾
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Hey Steve nice presentation, very informative. You helped take the guess work out of this.
Thank you & stay well, Joe Z.
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Great video Steve.
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Excellent show there man. I've got water issues in my fuel and appreciate your efforts. Been a sub for ages by the way.
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I have to say, I really didn't think they'd work! Simply amazing.
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Wasn't about the money saving..... saved me the time and issue of trying to find a replacement for methyl hydrate ... if not available. Thanks so much.
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STP.. nice video.. I’ve always wondered myself. Thanks for sharing. Have a great night sir..!!
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I thoroughly enjoyed and appreciated your tests especially after going through an arctic blast for 5 days here in North East Tennessee . We experienced lows ranging between 3 degrees on some days to highs of 14 degrees on some . Night time wind chills ranged from 4 degrees below zero to 20 degrees below for the lowest . My 2000 chevy silverado ran fine until the blast hit us and now it will start for a split second and then die . I'm thinking that water in the tank , fuel lines and the fuel injectors has become frozen and is what is causing my problem (?) . I'm going to try the STP product because it looked like it took less product to get the same results as the K-100 and the M.H. . I left the Seafoam out of my preferences because I don't like nor do I trust it . Thanks so much for your time and efforts in doing this experiment - 2 thumbs up .
Nice job Steve , but I would be very interested in seeing all of the beakers after an hour ! :-)
I looked at them this morning and there is NO change....
i don't think they will separate again but....."oil and water "don't mix so yes I m going to burn this old stuff outta my fuel and add ethanol free ASAP
We have ethanol free gas at two stations , I don't run anything on ethanol!
Great info. Going to try it.
Good luck!
Awesome video! Thanks a lot Steve. Very informative!
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Thanks for all your help Steve 👍 always good info and thanks for making me smile 😊 bless you.
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Very informative good work again Steve.
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thanks for a great video Steve . i am amazed as well.
Glad you enjoyed it
Great video, Steve...!!! The information is PERFECT..! The comedy is just as good (as always) - Canadian Scientifically Approved Beakers - HAHAHA...!! Excellent..! Love how you swig outta the GREEN one (water) at the end..! But, all kidding aside, the information that you shared, and the way that you did so, is AWESOME.! I am SO glad that I subscribed to your channel. I have shared YOU with several people - I hope you are getting MANY, MANY new subscribers - You are doing a wonderful service, and doing it in such a GREAT way (in my opinion)..! Looking forward to the next one... Keep up the good work..!
What an awesome comment! Thanks Buddy....
I totally missed the sip out of the GREEN bottle! Had to go back! OMG! TOOOO FUNNNY!
Good comparison Steve. I bought my first car in 1970 and methyl-hydrate is still my go to product for gas line antifreeze. It's inexpensive and it works.
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Helpful information, thank you for sharing !!
My pleasure!
Love your channel, Thanks for all the great information!
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Methyl hydrate has always been our go too in fuel tanks on vehicles and such. The only other thing we have done is freezing the water and dumping the fuel in another container works with outboard motor tanks and Geary cans pretty well. Keep on keeping on
Awesome idea!
Steve GREAT VIDEO!!!! This helps me!! I did not know this. Thank you!!!!! You do great videos !!!!!!
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Very cool! Thanks for the experiment! I'll go look for some product, now.
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Thanks for sharing the wealth of knowledge. I know what I'm going to look for tomorrow.
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Awesome demonstration! Thanks's Steve! 🍻
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Usable information! Hard to find that anymore. Thanks
Glad it was helpful!
Good test thank you!!
Our pleasure!
You just saved me a $200 trip to the shop! Blessings on you!
Excellent!
Great demo Steve-Cheers!
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Really well done video
Thank you very much!
Good to know about M.H. and 2cycle.
Thanks for that! It's such a big issue in Cali.
No problem!
Thanks for doing an accurate, real life test! All the other guys take a quart of gas, add a cup of water, then 2 cups of treatment, and guess what, nothing happens. If you average a cup per quart? you would have a 1/4 tank of water in your vehicle, and no treatment is going to fix that. Your test shows how the treatment works on normal condensation in the tank.
Thanks. I’m on a trip and stuck with a bike not running. I checked UA-cam and found your video. Perfect!
Maybe I can walk to a place where I can buy this. Now I know what to look for!
I love live experiments. This was both fun and educational. Thanks.
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Thanks Steve ... I just added 3 - 4 ounces of Seafoam in my 2007 VW Jetta a day ago because of fuel issues and it was -40 Celsius here in Regina, Sk and it worked great ! But I am impressed by all the 4 comparisons and think the other 3 actually out-performed the Seafoam even though the Seafoam does work fine as well !!! :-)
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Great info, Steve I will have to start using some. The stock is most likely the easiest to get. Thank you.
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Steve my dad died 10 years ago I have learned more from you tube and videos like yours to maintain and take care of lawnmowers and chainsaws than I had learned from dad. Keep up the good work Steve much appreciated!
Sorry to hear about your Dad my friend! Very happy I help...
Great demo! I'm old enough to remember my Dad insisting on us dumping a can of Dry Gas in the tank once the freezing weather set in. Guess it worked.
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I've been rebuilding carbs all week on my power saws.All because of ETHANOL.Thanks for the video,it was my goto education.
Amazing video! Thanks for the information.
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Great test Steve 👍
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Steve! One of the best videos testing this stuff so far! Great job.
Regarding the project Farm video....it was unrealistic!!!
donyboy73 has done some K100 videos as well that were good.
Anyway love your channel keep it up.
Yeah the project farm video waz not on point for those product , nice one Steve
I have to say this, Steve... this video (and all your other content) is ABSOLUTELY “top notch, bud!
You are clear, concise and easy to follow. The information, you provide, is stellar!
Thanks so much for making your videos!
Something I’d like you to do, would be a video talking about gas stabilizers. Are they necessary? If so, what’s the best one? You know?
From one proud Canuck to another: Just brilliant content, bud!
Thanks Rob. I do have a video on Stabil in one of my playlists...
Steve's Small Engine Saloon thanks buddy! I’ll do a search, for it, and check it out.😎
Thanks. Helpful.
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Love your show bro never knew off hand your on the island … then once I found out wow right on!! Anyway I have a few cards up my sleeve and would love to meet up one day and share few with ya… anyway keep up the great show you’ve taught me me a lot for sure .. take care and cheers!!
Very informative.
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Awesome information. You saved me a lot of hassle. Thanks bro.
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Good info, thanks
No problem!
Thanks very much Steve! That was very helpful.
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Great video!
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Thank you. Great experiment.
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Great video, $2.00 MH seems the cheapest success, but they all work. Enjoy all your videos good information, thanks
Great video. I've been wanting to know if that stuff really works.
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Wow that was great thank you I don’t know why I’ve never thought of trying to use a treatment before to get the water out of my lawnmowers gas. Awesome awesome thank you!
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Thanks for spending the time to save us from wasting ours! I was a Lil worried you were gonna drink the wrong bottle though!
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STP is damn impressive.
Awesome work bro!
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Good info Steve, thank you 😉
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Thanks , Very interesting !!
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Great video. I use Seafoam in my truck and it works great. Think I may switch to STP. Love your videos.
Good stuff
Great test. Thanks for sharing
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This video made me subscribe. Should have did a burn test also!
Firm believer in seafoam. It’s more than just water control. It works very well as the stabilizer as well. And keeps your carburetters clean too.(or at least better than having not put it in.) i use it in everything from my chainsaw to my snowmobiles to my truck.
Great video. Love Millers Draught also. Cheers 🍻
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world class video. so detailed and so exact. I appreciate all of your videos of what you do. you're the best... Bob...PS: please don't drink out of the wrong bottle.
Right on
Very informative. I am a more informed consumer, which saves me money, because of your channel. Thank you Steve.
Great to hear!
Awesome stuff. Great video!
Thanks!
Very precise and scientific. Thanks.
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Green water tastes good better than beer.thanks for the videos also watched piston scoring, helps to know the cause
Excellent project. It would be interesting to see if you added more of the water would still remove it as well.
Great video! I got a can of Seafoam and was leery about trying it.Glad to see I didnt waste my money.Keep up the great work!
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Steve, I have often wondered about these additives. I have used Seafoam in my Kubota L3830 diesel tractor for 12 years and have never had a water in fuel issue. Either I am very lucky or it works.
I Use according to Mfr suggestions for ratios.
Thanks for a great and informative video, as always.
Michael O.
Alabama USA
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Good Job , and the beer looks good too.
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Rock on Steve!!!!! 🤟🏼 another kick ass video Brother!!!!!!!!!
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A very interesting experiment. It would also be good to know, if after a week or so, you added more water into the pretreated test samples to know if the additive will still remove water.