[Healeys] Fuel tank -- winterizing

[Greg Mandas]

I've been four places lately each of which were pushing Startron as their fuel stabilizer of choice. Anyone with any experience with this stuff? 

Greg
65BJ8

Sent from my iPhone so please excuse typos and brevity. 


On Nov 29, 2010, at 3:49 PM, S and T Miller <stmiller96 at hotmail.com> wrote:

With all the talk about non-ethanol fuel, I decided to drain my fuel tank in
the 1957 today.  I don't drive the 1957 over the winter very much so the fuel
will remain unused for a few months.  I connected a 3 foot rubber fuel line to
the output on the front float bowl and and let the fuel pump, pump it into a
fuel can.  Once the pump started sucking air I gave the car a few shakes to
get the last bits of fuel.  Thinking there would be some fuel left in the
bottom of the tank, I removed the drain bolt with a drain pan handy.  To my
surprise I only got maybe a "baby food jar" sized amount of fuel.  I even
stuck a screw driver through the drain hole to make sure it wasn't just
clogged.
I was very surprised that the fuel tank/ pump actually sucks almost all the
fuel out of the tank when it runs dry.  Now I am going to put some non-ethanol
fuel in for the winter.

The Millers
"British Car Nuts"

1957 Austin Healey 100-6 BN4 35299

1959 Austin Healey 100-6 BN4 77219

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1960 Austin Healey Bugeye Sprite AN5 34351

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