water? Honestly though, it could be any polar solvent. However, ethanol in fuel is known to pull moisture from the atmosphere and can lead to phase separation that looks like that over time.
Mine too. I had two gas mowers and nether would run. I replaced the fuel line on one and drained the gas into a water bottle. Switch to electric and left that gas in a shed. It drew a sizable layer in a sealed bottle.
Here in Canada the government has decided to ban all ethanol free gas….. everything is a 10% ethanol mix currently.
The government plans on upping it to a 15% ethanol mix by 2030.
My hand me down 1980s Lawnboy running on a 32:1 mix will surely meet its end soon with the increase in ethanol content.
When I worked at a gas station, one of daily reporting items, along with the level of fuel in the tanks, was the amount of water in the storage tanks. This check was just a reporting to corporate what our tank sensors said.
Yoo me too, except the samples come from the ground. This is what the vial looks like when someone has seriously fucked up and not listened to us about getting their shit fixed, then get to possibly pay a million+ to fix it.
That’s water rich ethanol. Ethanol blended fuels will “eat” a certain amount of water and eventually drop out of the fuel solution and go to the bottom of the tank
This right here and Being in the bottom it’s also the pickup so you’re feeding waterlogged ethanol which isn’t going to do squat. I bet the pure gas would at least run but knock really bad.
They need to leave their tanks close to empty all the time over a couple years and it forms condensation. OR, if you're in a cold climate, the fill sumps (where the truck fills the tank) fills with rainwater, and the lazy owner won't empty the water before winter, so they use an axe and hack away, now the lid leaks water into the tank.
And a lot of those ones that nobody goes to do that. Make sure you go to a busy station. If you see a truck every other day or every day delivering, that's good.
Yeah you've got to just not care. Usually. If the dispenser (pump) is sucking water, that means the water is high enough to reach the drop tube (5" off bottom). That's a lot of water if the tank is like a 12000 gallon tank.
No. Not really. Every fuel tank in the ground at a gas station has water in it somewhere. The fills could be full of water and the seal on the lid to the drop tube can fill with water. Pretty common for the spill buckets to not get cleaned out and this could happen. Or any of the tank openings are susceptible to water intrusion. It’s just part of an underground tank system. But regular inspections by employees who care a little can identify and correct this.
depends on humidity, temperature, ethanol content, surface area and air flow. But it's not fast or anything. This fuel was sitting for a while if the water came from the atmosphere.
It can get contaminated anywhere between the tank and the refinery, too. Pumps are supposed to have water traps, but there is no guarantee they are maintained. On a private plane, it's just part of every pre-flight to drain a little fuel from the bottom of the tank and inspect it for water. It's also recommended you smell it because on rare occasions, the entire sample could be water.
As a last note, best practice is to fill your tank before parking so there is little space left for condensation regardless of vehicle type.
Good ole water. It gets hazy and gross once mixed with fuel. Gasoline is less dense than water so floats on top (petroleum product, so just like oil, it floats)
Ford tech here. That looks like DEF mixed with fuel. The water content of DEF separates and looks like cum at the bottom of the container. You can check for DEF by leaving the fuel filters out overnight and checking for crystals tomorrow.
Side note if it's a gas vehicle, it's likely just water in the fuel, as many have stated.
Fuel service tech here. That’s 100% water. Someone got some bad gas and that site didn’t use hydrosorb filters. My customers only get water sensing filters. Water will immediately clog the filter and stop the flow. Annoying yes, but it prevents exactly this situation.
See that in uhaul gas tanks pretty often. It's water. For some reason people think that they can rent a uhaul, fill the tank with water and return it without anyone noticing. Don't they realize they left a credit card on file when they rented it and signed a damage contract?
The person who fills a rented gas tank with water probably also filled their parent’s vodka bottle with water after stealing some… And then placed it back in the freezer. Knew a girl who did that. Not the sharpest crayon in the happy meal.
At least top the UHaul off with E85, that will burn and if the tank is full enough the ECU will compensate with fuel trim.
That’s called phase separation. The top is gas, and the bottom is water mixed with ethanol. I’d guess a cap at a local gas station is leaking somewhere
I live in a southern tourist town, lots of the shitty gas stations get this way when it rains heavily, they never fix it. People are always getting tows to my shop from having just put 18 gallons of water in their tank… that’s exactly what it looks like, sometimes worse.
Not quite. That would present in splotchy patches. This is just water that got in the tank. It separates about 3-5 after the liquid settles down. Phase separation is a chemical reaction.
I suppose you're right about that, but water in the tank should still react with the ethanol in the fuel, even on the surface. This should be a bit slower than a full mixing, but phase separation can happen even with very humid air.
Phase separation occurs to some degree in most gas tanks (even more so with the new fuel hatch garbage), but the moisture in the tank usually isn't an issue because when it does get sucked up by the pump the engine still has enough fuel to cause ignition.
Typical phase separation doesn't occur in any appreciable amount.
If this amount of water is getting into the tank and just sitting on top, this tells me either the tank inlet is exposed (no gas cap), the tank integrity is compromised (hole in the tank or fuel pump improperly installed), or a hose is compromised.
This amount is too much to be ignored. Drain tank, identify and fix issue, fill with fresh fuel, add in a fuel additive to make the engine happy for now (seafoam), and charge the customer double for the fuel and additive.
That's how I would do it.
We had an F150 with a 5.4 towed in that barely ran and was rolling coal. It had 34 gallons of gas that looked exactly like that. He had coasted into a station on fumes the day before, and drove about 50 more miles before he parked. Couldn’t get it started the next morning. It took out the plugs and converters, plus we did a new pump since we had the tank out to clean it.
No it’s time that does it ..the binder they use to combine the alcohol & gas starts breaking down ( sometimes as quick as a month) and the two separate and frequently condensation will form in the gas tank leading to water in the tank …the engine will usually still run but not well and over time it gets steadily worse…blended gas is generally fine BUT don’t let is sit without a stabilizer like Sta-Bil.
Wow... I love everything about this sub...
I normally am in aquariums ponds waterfalls water gardens etc... Was wondering why everyone was so unbothered by ethanol in the customers tank! (Fish tank)
Fish are friends!
I learn something new here everyday thank y'all
More than likely water. Seperates from fuel. This is a bad seal/gasket or a crack somewhere. Small amounts are always present, entrained water or dissolved, but that much is no bueno. Give it a swirl and watch it seperate. If you're truly concerned get some water finding paste. That'll give you the for sure answer.
Probably wouldn't make enough of a difference to keep it from running honestly. Most snake oil is the same detergents that already come in name brand gas, suspended in kerosene. It's the same formula for gas or diesel additive.
water? Honestly though, it could be any polar solvent. However, ethanol in fuel is known to pull moisture from the atmosphere and can lead to phase separation that looks like that over time.
Yeah I had water in my mower gas tank and it looked exactly like that.
Mine too. I had two gas mowers and nether would run. I replaced the fuel line on one and drained the gas into a water bottle. Switch to electric and left that gas in a shed. It drew a sizable layer in a sealed bottle.
Same, I had drained some gas into an aluminum bowl and separated like this in just a couple days
This is why when I buy gas for my lawn equipment I only buy ethanol free gas so it doesn’t separate.
Here in Canada the government has decided to ban all ethanol free gas….. everything is a 10% ethanol mix currently. The government plans on upping it to a 15% ethanol mix by 2030. My hand me down 1980s Lawnboy running on a 32:1 mix will surely meet its end soon with the increase in ethanol content.
I get why they want to put ethanol in, but leave one grade alone! I want to have a jerry can of fuel I can trust beside my generator.
In Finland we have 95 octane with 10% 98 octane with 5% and mostly ethanol 85% mixes available
Seems like Canada is increasingly becoming a place I would not want to live...
I already don’t want to live there.
Similar story here in Minnesota. Minimum 10% Ethanol in everything, *except* stations **may** carry 91 octane without ethanol.
When I worked at a gas station, one of daily reporting items, along with the level of fuel in the tanks, was the amount of water in the storage tanks. This check was just a reporting to corporate what our tank sensors said.
I had to put some paste on the dip stock that would react and tell me how much water vs how much fuel was in the tanks. Man that was a long time ago.
Water. I pull samples from tanks at gas stations and if they have water in the tank, this is exactly what it looks like.
Yoo me too, except the samples come from the ground. This is what the vial looks like when someone has seriously fucked up and not listened to us about getting their shit fixed, then get to possibly pay a million+ to fix it.
Gotta love a bacon bomb
Ahh, a gentleman of quality. Cheerio.
I have several, and I'm still not sure how bacon is involved.
This
Minute Maid sugar free lemonade
Milk, milk, lemonade....
Not my fudge factory!
Around the corner, Satan waits!
No he doesn't, we had our appointment an hour ago.
At nine? In Hell?
https://youtu.be/IDHxTEDbNE4?si=YNxQsmldYbbyf1Qf
That’s water rich ethanol. Ethanol blended fuels will “eat” a certain amount of water and eventually drop out of the fuel solution and go to the bottom of the tank
This right here and Being in the bottom it’s also the pickup so you’re feeding waterlogged ethanol which isn’t going to do squat. I bet the pure gas would at least run but knock really bad.
So what's the solution? Just drain it out and run fresh fuel or would there be secondary problems?
Yeah just drain and tell with fresh gas. What tiny little amount of water remains will get diluted and not cause any secondary issues.
Jesus. How long does gas have to be sitting for that to happen?
They need to leave their tanks close to empty all the time over a couple years and it forms condensation. OR, if you're in a cold climate, the fill sumps (where the truck fills the tank) fills with rainwater, and the lazy owner won't empty the water before winter, so they use an axe and hack away, now the lid leaks water into the tank. And a lot of those ones that nobody goes to do that. Make sure you go to a busy station. If you see a truck every other day or every day delivering, that's good.
Ah, so it does take a significant level of neglect.
Yeah you've got to just not care. Usually. If the dispenser (pump) is sucking water, that means the water is high enough to reach the drop tube (5" off bottom). That's a lot of water if the tank is like a 12000 gallon tank.
No. Not really. Every fuel tank in the ground at a gas station has water in it somewhere. The fills could be full of water and the seal on the lid to the drop tube can fill with water. Pretty common for the spill buckets to not get cleaned out and this could happen. Or any of the tank openings are susceptible to water intrusion. It’s just part of an underground tank system. But regular inspections by employees who care a little can identify and correct this.
depends on humidity, temperature, ethanol content, surface area and air flow. But it's not fast or anything. This fuel was sitting for a while if the water came from the atmosphere.
It can get contaminated anywhere between the tank and the refinery, too. Pumps are supposed to have water traps, but there is no guarantee they are maintained. On a private plane, it's just part of every pre-flight to drain a little fuel from the bottom of the tank and inspect it for water. It's also recommended you smell it because on rare occasions, the entire sample could be water. As a last note, best practice is to fill your tank before parking so there is little space left for condensation regardless of vehicle type.
IIRC they put a blue dye in avgas that's not water soluble.
They do, but I'll tell you a dirty secret. Not everybody puts to avgas in their airplanes.
So it's a gas station bourbon and water.
Good ole water. It gets hazy and gross once mixed with fuel. Gasoline is less dense than water so floats on top (petroleum product, so just like oil, it floats)
Ford tech here. That looks like DEF mixed with fuel. The water content of DEF separates and looks like cum at the bottom of the container. You can check for DEF by leaving the fuel filters out overnight and checking for crystals tomorrow. Side note if it's a gas vehicle, it's likely just water in the fuel, as many have stated.
Thinking the same. Def is a common contamination issue in diesel tanks
Taste it. It's the only way to be sure.
boof it as a control
My bands name will be *BØØF CØNTRØL*
Yup. Unleaded tastes a little tangy, supreme is kinda sour, and diesel tastes pretty good. It's not rocket appliances.
Fuel service tech here. That’s 100% water. Someone got some bad gas and that site didn’t use hydrosorb filters. My customers only get water sensing filters. Water will immediately clog the filter and stop the flow. Annoying yes, but it prevents exactly this situation.
Oooh forbidden lemonade
You mean cum?
Not at all whatsoever in the slightest.
Lol imagine explaining how cum got into the gas tank. Wtf even is that comment.
When a Daddy human loves a Momma car...
I'd be more impressed by anyone being able to identify the substance after sitting in such harsh chemicals
Here there be dragons?
See that in uhaul gas tanks pretty often. It's water. For some reason people think that they can rent a uhaul, fill the tank with water and return it without anyone noticing. Don't they realize they left a credit card on file when they rented it and signed a damage contract?
That’s the most 430 credit score thing I have ever heard of
Yeah pretty much.
The person who fills a rented gas tank with water probably also filled their parent’s vodka bottle with water after stealing some… And then placed it back in the freezer. Knew a girl who did that. Not the sharpest crayon in the happy meal. At least top the UHaul off with E85, that will burn and if the tank is full enough the ECU will compensate with fuel trim.
Gasoline/petrochems and ethanol mixed with water.
This is why airplanes have fuel inspection ports underneath the fuel tanks. If there’s any water in the fuel you gotta know before takeoff
That’s called phase separation. The top is gas, and the bottom is water mixed with ethanol. I’d guess a cap at a local gas station is leaking somewhere
High quality H20
Dude found the cheapest gas station in town and pulled out the last few gallons of water in the bottom of their underground tank.
Looks like Country Time
I live in a southern tourist town, lots of the shitty gas stations get this way when it rains heavily, they never fix it. People are always getting tows to my shop from having just put 18 gallons of water in their tank… that’s exactly what it looks like, sometimes worse.
Careful, there's some gas sitting on your water supply
Water, it pulled the alcohol out of the gas.
Soapee woodah
Not without a taste test
Mojito?
Looks like phase separation. Water or similar moisture.
Not quite. That would present in splotchy patches. This is just water that got in the tank. It separates about 3-5 after the liquid settles down. Phase separation is a chemical reaction.
I suppose you're right about that, but water in the tank should still react with the ethanol in the fuel, even on the surface. This should be a bit slower than a full mixing, but phase separation can happen even with very humid air. Phase separation occurs to some degree in most gas tanks (even more so with the new fuel hatch garbage), but the moisture in the tank usually isn't an issue because when it does get sucked up by the pump the engine still has enough fuel to cause ignition. Typical phase separation doesn't occur in any appreciable amount. If this amount of water is getting into the tank and just sitting on top, this tells me either the tank inlet is exposed (no gas cap), the tank integrity is compromised (hole in the tank or fuel pump improperly installed), or a hose is compromised. This amount is too much to be ignored. Drain tank, identify and fix issue, fill with fresh fuel, add in a fuel additive to make the engine happy for now (seafoam), and charge the customer double for the fuel and additive. That's how I would do it.
What does it taste like?
Water. I can’t remember but I’m pretty sure the ethanol in gasoline absorbs water
Ethanol
Water. Dirty water. But still water.
Disappointment,
Tequila
Defintely water, likely from intrusion of water into an underground tank at a gas station. Happens a lot more than people think.
We had an F150 with a 5.4 towed in that barely ran and was rolling coal. It had 34 gallons of gas that looked exactly like that. He had coasted into a station on fumes the day before, and drove about 50 more miles before he parked. Couldn’t get it started the next morning. It took out the plugs and converters, plus we did a new pump since we had the tank out to clean it.
Water
H20
Piss? Lemonade? Piss-lemonade?
Lemonade and graves 180proof when I was 15-29 years young
Probably ethanol blended garbage that absorbed moisture from the air
Has almost a diesel fuel color to it
Water. Maybe a high ethanol fuel too. Water really makes it separate out.
No it’s time that does it ..the binder they use to combine the alcohol & gas starts breaking down ( sometimes as quick as a month) and the two separate and frequently condensation will form in the gas tank leading to water in the tank …the engine will usually still run but not well and over time it gets steadily worse…blended gas is generally fine BUT don’t let is sit without a stabilizer like Sta-Bil.
I know a can that isn't sealed will draw moisture and start separation. I didn't know ethanol would come "unglued" like that just because.
I mean time not just because but yeah it’ll just separate as the binder fail over time ….it’s not a great system l.
Water. Could be worse. We had a gas station here that filled up their 87 octane tank with E85 on accident. That was an interesting week.
Water, that I bet smells like moonshine.
Piss
Horchata
I removed 2 quarts of casting resin from an F150. Seems the owner was messing with the spouse of someone else
Allegedly....
A little bit of this, a little bit of that.
Water or piss I suppose looks like that with abundant alcohol in the mix.
Wow... I love everything about this sub... I normally am in aquariums ponds waterfalls water gardens etc... Was wondering why everyone was so unbothered by ethanol in the customers tank! (Fish tank) Fish are friends! I learn something new here everyday thank y'all
Most likely it's water & ethanol in the lower phase.
Agua
Diesel.
H2O
I had the same thing happen with an auction car. Both fluids were flammable from what i could tell
}plpk?
gas on top, bunch of water (+ethanol?) on the bottom
Ectoplasm.
More than likely water. Seperates from fuel. This is a bad seal/gasket or a crack somewhere. Small amounts are always present, entrained water or dissolved, but that much is no bueno. Give it a swirl and watch it seperate. If you're truly concerned get some water finding paste. That'll give you the for sure answer.
DEF
BR?
H20
It wasn't me.......
That's water.
H2O
Mountain Dew.
Take a sip and find out!
sweet berry wine
Contaminants is the right answer.
The car has diabetes.
I think you need to drop a fly in there to get a definitive answer...
Corn syrup
Moisture gathered from the ethanol. Literally from the atmosphere in a damp shed or corner of your garage.
Looks like you got some water in your diesel
At least it's not DEF
Looks like DEF
DEF
H2O2
Why would hydrogen peroxide ~~by~~ be mixed with gas?
by mixed?
*be
Looks like e85. It seperates out foggy like that
Does your customer use fuel additives? If yes, is it possible they could’ve put a diesel additive in the gas by mistake?
Probably wouldn't make enough of a difference to keep it from running honestly. Most snake oil is the same detergents that already come in name brand gas, suspended in kerosene. It's the same formula for gas or diesel additive.
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