funny colour petrol

[Steven M]

hi all,

my vl has been sitting around for about 12mths now, had to put another motor in and never got around to fitting the box till recently. About 8 wks ago I put in 10 bucks worth of fuel the engine was running fine but this arvo i wouldn't start, i undid one of the fuel lines and the fuel coming out was a sort of dirty green/yellow colour. Does anyone know why its this colour just so i know. I'm draining it out atm.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Stevo

[burnz]

yer iv noticed different colour fuel yellowie not quiet real having tested get back soon

[Boonz]

lol u put diesel in instead of petrol jokes maybe its gone stale

[VKnVLCalais]

yellow colour hey??? hmmm one of ur mates pissed into ur tank dude.????

[Stewart1000]

very weird, probably something in the tank reacting with the fuel, not the fuel itself.

[greenfoam]

lol u put diesel in instead of petrol jokes maybe its gone stale

I saw a woman do that to a new 4WD in Mildura once, boy was she unhappy blaming everyone but herself, the guys at the servo pushed it to one side and rang a mechanic to take it away and drain the fuel :0

[ucwepn]

unleaded is yellow, I went from a leaded car not long ago and the leaded is more of a reddy orange and unleaded is pale yellow (prolly all the other crap they put in it)

[vlv8vic]

tinted like so: unleaded is blue, leaded should be red, premium is purple.

Im not sure if any of the new blends are yellow but stale petrol will go a pale yellow/brown tint and have a totall different smell to petrol. 8 weeks in the right conditions is enough to taint a small amount of fuel.

[burnz]

yer iv noticed different colour fuel yellowie not quiet real having tested get back soon

yep benzine, isopropic alcohole, turpentine, lawsuit coming:

[vlv8vic]

lol look forward to hearing about that one... beleive it when i see it.

[NORTI]

How long for a full tank to go off?? Had the VL of the road for awhile now...

What can I expect if full is off/stale??


D.

[Shounak]

How long for a full tank to go off?? Had the VL of the road for awhile now...

What can I expect if full is off/stale??


D.

According to my LPG handbook petrol starts to go bad after 6 weeks..

For the other guy, I reckon just drain it and run a few tanks of 98+ Petrol through it. Possibly with some additives..

[vlv8vic]

dannc give it a run every now and then if you can. moisture can also form in and around petrol as it starts to break down.
if you cant give it a run, and its off the road for more than 2 months i would personally drain it (i know that it hurts losing a full tank...) otherwise you risk gumming bits and pieces up further along the system.

if you do decide to run it you may notice a lack of power, may not run, may run for a while then things start going wrong or no difference at all! its a gamble, you either lose $60 of petrol and be pretty safe or keep it and risk hundreds of dollars in other bits.

[NORTI]

Thx, I have been starting it when I can, but the alternator died (so I thought) & ment that I need to jump it all the time cus I was too slack to pull it out, so it hasnt been "run" just started & left idleing for a whiles. turns out after I did pull alt out on the weekend, that its fine, stupid battery & charger were lying to me. All bar 1 cell had shit themselves in the battery & the charger was still charging it & reproting it as full so I lent the blame to the alternator unfairly! So Im puttin the alt back in & new battery & Ill putter around in it again.

I think Ill empty the tank & refill it just to be safe.


D.

[pro_gmh]

Yeh there was a petrol selling REALLY cheap fuel, so stupid me filled up a tank with it at 1.12 litre and went and told my mate that i found a servo with cheap fuel.
Anyway i found out that he sells it cheap coz if outta date. *$@!%$#*& GRRRR.

Never heard of petrol being yellow or going yellow.

Most diesl fuel bowsers have a bigger nozzle so cant fit in an unleaded tank.