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Old Jun 16, 2008 | 11:10 AM
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I have 08 NBS that only gets driven on the weekend, because i have a truck from work that I drive as my every day truck. My question is how long will the gas last in my tank. It might take me two months to burn one tank. I'm thinking of only putting 20 bucks in at a time so I cankeep fresh gas in there most of the time.
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Old Jun 16, 2008 | 4:20 PM
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run some gas stableizer in it
local homedepot has it or lowes
its safe to run.
and youll have no worrys about leaving it sit
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Old Jun 16, 2008 | 7:15 PM
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another good thing is a stuff called SEAFOAM works good
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Old Jun 17, 2008 | 10:05 AM
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Or step up to high test, my brother had his S-10 in my driveway (with no engine in it) for almost 2 years and we hooked the fuel pump up to a battery during the hurricanes, pumped out the gas and used it in our generators, it was still good and flammable.
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Old Jun 17, 2008 | 10:57 AM
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bottle of seafoam or stablizer 5.00 tank of high test 80.00 lol
didnt know seafoam was good for that its some good stuff i know just never knew that part at all
have to check into it
i get the stablizer every year in lawnmowers atvs gocars generators and all weedeaters and what not that dont get used on a daily bases
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Old Jun 18, 2008 | 8:59 AM
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I'd venture a guess that $5 is more than the difference between a tank of hightest and regular, lol here theres about a $0.20/gal difference, I only get about 16-18 gal when I get gas anyways, so thats about $3 difference, but I guess if you run it bone dry, then maybe you save a dime or two per tank lol.
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Old Jun 18, 2008 | 4:42 PM
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do nothing. no need to. it'll work/start/run just fine as is. as far as you start it once a month, nothing will go wrong. what WILL happen is that all connectors that can corrode, WILL corrode. battery's first. so i'd lub every one i can find and disconnect with dialectric grease, if i were you.
neighbor has subaru sitting behind the fence, starts it once a year. never saw him doing any special or having any trouble.
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