Making your own ETHANOL FREE Gasoline!!! it's easier than you think!!

[@johnNJ4024]

I used to work as a lab worker in an organic extraction laboratory. Your gasoline, being cloudy is contaminated with emulsified water and needs to be "dehydrated" with anhydrous sodium sulfate (it grabs a lot of water from solvents). And, likewise the top layer in your one gallon plastic jug is the gasoline with emulsified water. Look at the lower water layer in the one gallon plastic jug and you can tell about 1/2" to 3/4" of water is emulsified in the gasoline. If you let the gasoline/water mixture sit overnight you'll probably notice the gasoline is clear again. Myself, I wouldn't use the cloudy gasoline in any engine because it has a ton of emulsified water along with ethanol in it! If the gasoline isn't perfectly clear then it's contaminated with water!

[@johnNJ4024]

@@Edmund_Mallory_Hardgrove I watched another KZbin video where the presenter puts 100ml of gasoline with 10% ethanol in a 100ml graduated cylinder and just pours in an additional 20ml of water. No shaking. Just pours it in and the water goes straight to the bottom of the graduated cylinder. The gasoline stays perfectly clear. Then he waits 15 minutes and shows there's 30ml of an aqueous/ethanol layer at the bottom. The gasoline was pretty much then ethanol free and clear as a bell. This demonstrates that you don't have to shake the gasoline and water at all. Just add twice the percentage of water and the ethanol will selectively dissolve into the water leaving the gasoline ready to use. Couldn't be much easier!

[@johnNJ4024]

@@Edmund_Mallory_Hardgrove Since gasoline is a mixture of hexane, benzene, toluene, xylene, octane plus stabilizers, etc. I'm not sure how much the emulsified water would separate, but I'm guessing most would after 24 hours and the gasoline should clear up. I don't know if anhydrous sodium sulfate would be 100% necessary or not. In the lab, we only used pure solvents in extraction procedures. Some extractions needed the sodium sulfate and some didn't. The High Pressure Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) columns sometimes needed a blend of two or three solvents, but I didn't operate those machines so I'm not as knowledgeable with how blended solvents react to emulsified water.

[@Dwigt_Rortugal]

@@6gatornation I've tried gumount octane booster in a Sta-Bil container with the built in measuring device, but doing this in your garage is far from an exact science. I tried the water ethanol separation method last year, and I found it to be more trouble than it's worth, personally. I let it sit for a few days to separate fully, but the leftover "ethanol" smokes and smells strongly like petroleum, uncharacteristic of ethanol. My small engines ran on the resulting separated gasoline, but they didn't seem to run as well. If I ever have time to invest in side endeavors, I might try to obtain aviation gasoline from an airport. If there are any pilots reading this, I'm curious if it's generally available to anyone in the public who drives up.

[@benjamincresswell3713]

@@6gatornation If you pull the etoh out, it will lower the octane equiv by about 2pts (r+m/2). 10% etoh 93 octane fuel probably started life as 91 octane (r+m/2). So you'd windup with about 91 but it may not be a healthy "brew" in the way of acidic compounds. There are a LOT of other chemicals in gas to consider. 95 octane equiv, about the lowest "Race Gas" you can buy alcohol free, costs $20/ gal, so you could add it to your "brew" but, you might look into why they don't want you to use e-10 and take measures to negate the problems. Hope this helps. ben/ michigan

[@benjamincresswell3713]

@@Dwigt_Rortugal Jim, I bought it all the time when I was younger. I was looking for 100 or more Leaded and I bought it a lot. They would not let me put it right into my gas tank because it didn't have road tax on it. But I did it anyway at a slew of little grass airports. The others made me put it into a gas can and then I could "drink it if I wanted to" was their words. ben/ michigan

[@michaelhaigh5089]

I’ve been purifying my gas for 2 years now I use a 5 gallon plastic carboy from Amazon and it has a petcock on the bottom . Some recommendations use distilled water mixed with blue or red Food dye the dye is water soluble and when the mixture separates it gives a clear delineation of the water/ ethanol mixture verses the purified gas. Ethanol burns slower and is part of the octane rating of the gasoline so if you start with a 93 octane rated fuel you’ll end up close to 87 octane. Note octane is actually isooctane which inhibits the rate of combustion and thereby decreases engine nock. Finally it takes a minimum of 12 hours for complete separation of the gas from the ethanol /water mixture . I always draw off the pure gasoline 24 hours after mixing.

[@silverhorder1969]

You are aware there are stores that sell conventional gas with no ethanol?

[@jimaslan4837]

@@silverhorder1969 Up north in the corn belt, where I live, there aint one gas station within 75 miles. And I'm not traveling that far for mow gas. I wish there was so I didn't have to this.

[@silverhorder1969]

@@jimaslan4837 look for a COOP that sells gas. They quite often sell straight gas. Surely there is a COOP somewhere?

[@gnuorder]

@@silverhorder1969 If the ethanol free pump is tied to one or more of the ethanol containing products, a good bit of your first gallon of ethanol free gas will come from what ever is in the hose from what ever was last pumped and will likely have ethanol in it. In that case it's a good idea to pump a few gallons into your car before filling your mower can.

[@silverhorder1969]

@@gnuorder I agree. I always gas up my truck first. I haul gasoline and here’s a little more advice, the arm at ALL of the tank farms I’m carded at, that you load 0087 at, you also load 87E10 at. It’s a 4” line and for the first 50 or so gallons we’re getting 87E10. The state doesn’t require it to be 100% ethanol free. I’ve heard it has to be below 4%.

[@myleftthumb2294]

I would probably have just siphoned the pure gasoline off the top down to maybe within an inch of the separation line and then kept the remainder for mixing into the next batch.

[@mrcryptozoic817]

I like that. Your less likely to get water in your gas.

[@joshuabennett7334]

I was thinking about that but siphoning is like a straw so unless you go from the bottom it is likely to draw the water back up through the fuel and mix it again. I think I would try a food dye in the water but it would be a experiment because the dye might strip off into the gasoline.

[@mikefelty2625]

I thought the same thing

[@thinkingimpaired5663]

Anybody try building a separation tank with a bottom drain to remove the water from the bottom? After removing the water I figure some fuel stabilizer in the remaining fuel will help. I also have a water fuel separation funnel that perhaps I'll run the remaining fuel through first before adding the stabilizer. I just haven't figured out exactly how to build a good fuel separation tank with a bottom drain. The separation funnel can be used on gasoline and diesel to remove dirty fuel too, with I believe a teflon coated mesh filter. Some people just mix water in gas then just run through the filter. Filter is 35 dollars for a small filter, but it's best to get the larger filter to handle 5 gallons of fuel at a time. I bought both. The product is called Mr Funnel available at many local stores. Mr Funnel doesn't work with stabilized fuel.

[@cowdiologist2759]

Make a separation Funnel like we use in Chemistry class. It's a large funnel with a valve on the bottom and you drain off the water with ethanol (it forms an azeotrope). I wonder if any one has tried to distill the ethanol from the mixture or does the gas odor and other water soluble hydrocarbons and additives contaminate the water. Either way, this is a DANGEROUS procedure. I would only do it outside and not in my shop.

[@Lagrange1186]

Glycol (antifreeze) works better than water on separating and with 87 octane you drop to 84 and with 93 it will drop to 91-90 ish on octane. I work for one of the big oil company’s and we test loads that head to the stations for ethanol content this way. It can help a fella make some 90 rec when you are in a pinch.

[@UnityMotorSportsGarage]

I've never tried Antifreeze... That is pretty neat good info Thanks for watching Andy

[@robertelmo7736]

So why is the "non-ethanol" gas more expensive than the gas that has been mixed on the truck with ethanol? I have never been able to figure that out!? The ethanol costs more than gasoline, so why would the fuel with the more expensive alcohol be less expensive? Ran my old Mustang with a hot air Paxton on E85, but mostly mixed for E60 as that was 100 octane instead of 105... Thanks!

[@MrTheHillfolk]

That's why ya go fill up at a sleepy little airport with 100 low lead and none of that ethanol trash in it.

[@Lagrange1186]

@@robertelmo7736 taxes my friend… it’s all about the taxes… Ethanol is a renewable energy and you get the tax credit towards the 87 or 93 and when you take the ethanol out… you take the tax cut out

[@johnshackelford6965]

Putin is continuing Crimea war Ukraine gave up nukes Trump is going to the big house so my gas is drained. No end in sight. Only worse to come.

[@imbadwrench]

My bud used to do this, had a big canister with a petcock on the bottom to drain the water out.. used to leave the water/alcohol mix in a gas can in the barn...... gas can would mysteriously get emptied every now and then and one of the local kids would be selling a dirt bike or go kart a few days later..... he would buy them and flip them.

[@Anarchy-Is-Liberty]

ROFLMFAO!!! That's hilarious!!

[@Prestiged_peck]

Stonks

[@thejerseyj5479]

I have a small airport about a mile from me and I buy my chainsaw and splitter gas from there. Aviation fuel doesn't have ethanol, is higher in octane and has stabilizer in it already. All this for about two dollars more per gallon.

[@jameslaurinitis7580]

Add some Toluene to the fuel and it will bump the octane rating right back up.

[@Ottbucket]

Chemical Engineer here. Yup, this'll work. Like the Comments say... some things you can do to help recovery. But, the science works.

[@davidward1259]

And Racor makes a water separation funnel. You could run the "pure" gasoline through it as a 2nd step just to make sure you have all the water our. Racor water separation filters are common items for boating.

[@joesinakandid528]

"Mr Funnel" - same thing.

[@smiddywesson2703]

Here in Mississippi, regular 87 octane is sold for $3.00 per gallon. The ethanol free gas is $3.30 per gallon (actually, these numbers have gone a little higher recently). So you can pay a 10% premium to keep that ethanol out of your gas, or lose 10% by removing 10% of your purchase when you remove the ethanol and throw it away. At least here, the smart move is to pay the premium and save the labor of removing the ethanol, unless of course, you have some use for water infused ethanol.

[@tacticalcenter8658]

Your probably still getting 5% ethanol and not even realizing it.

[@jimibmore]

@@tacticalcenter8658 nope

[@im-that-guy-pal]

​@jimibmore unless you are using a laboratory to extract the ethonal you are not going to get 100% free ethonal. It's just not gonna happen without sacrificing some of the fuel.

[@plips71755]

Well there isn’t any debate - once they added ethanol I started having difficulties for small engines.

[@davidparker9676]

The new fuels have ruined many fuel systems of old vehicles. It is also responsible for many vehicle fires due to the ethanol attacking the rubber lines and seals, causing fuel leaks and fires. A few years ago, I saw a beautiful Rolls Royce catch on fire on the freeway, it completely demolished the car. The car was someone's prized collector piece they would take out on a Sunday drive, now it is gone to the scrapyard.

[@antilogism]

Messes with the mixture. My riding mower misses a bit and smells gassy on ethanol-laced and smooth and odor-free on plain gasoline.

[@davidparker9676]

@@antilogism This video isn't intended for E85, it is intended for E10 or E15. E85 is mostly ethanol, you shouldn't be using E85 in something designed for regular pump gas.

[@doomguy584]

@@davidparker9676 remember cash for clunkers??? All part of their devious plan to get reliable vehicles off the road so they can sell you new garbage vehicles

[@earlbrown]

You've been having difficulties since the 1970's when Carter mandated ethanol in gasoline? That's some bad luck there.

[@Bobcat1950]

I am giving you a big thumbs up for all the informative comments listed below. The explanations of engine knock, vaporization, ethylene glycol, ethanol subsidies, adding dye to the separation mixture, the safety warning about storing chemicals in unlabeled containers, etc. You have an excellent, well informed community following your content, and I commend them.

[@tanyareese5842]

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[@Nobamaable]

The gasoline should be clear and have a straw color. Yours appears to have entrained water in it making it appear cloudy. As an old aviation mechanic that did fuel samples every morning on our Coast Guard aircraft, I wouldn't use that gasoline in my engines. I'm a bit skeptical on your theory of removing ALL of the water from the gas...the entrained water still exists. Still a cool video.

[@lisamitchell1355]

We ran a Texaco station in the early days and the fuel was the best there was, our Skycheif was 104😮 octane and no ethanol, no corn , no fumes, just straight up gas that was clear like water, you could even burn it in your gas lanterns

[@davezemba9109]

White gas ?

[@elgringoec]

There's something new to me and I've been around a good bit! Thanks Andy. Luckily I got an ethanol -free station in the nearest town but this is very interesting and for me a useful thing to know. Three cheers!

[@danielr.schafer9504]

I do the same thing with my old mower gas, no matter what you do it gets water in it! Put the gas in a large clear bottle like a dish soap bottle key part here is the valve, add gas and water shake let separation happen turn bottle over and open valve top squeeze out water… your done, put the rest in your tank! You could just decant your mix like wine but you may get some water in your tank, if your not very careful. Dont worry about octane its a mower after all.

[@gerarddugas6224]

I run all engines on e85. Lawn mower, snowblower, chainsaw, generator, my regular truck and car. Cold weather starting requires more gasoline mixed in. 15 years and no issues.❤

[@duccanard9079]

I've been using a 30 gal. barrel(clear?)to get rid of ethanol for a long time.Ethanol will destroy my fiberglass saddle tanks on my bumpsides(3).When taking my trans-Texas jaunts,I put 5 gals. of Avgas and a squirt of 2-stroke lube to get my mileage back up.Of course,funding 60-80 gallons of pushwater is getting harder on a pension.

[@davenorman8251]

Andy now to continue on..Take your ethanol/water mix and for that quantity add about 2 maybe 3 cups of salt and a small amount of food coloring and stir to dissolve it in the mix..then let it sit and the ethanol and the water will separate...then draw it off just the same. This method is called salting out.

[@royblackburn1163]

Thanks that's good , if I do it do you know if I could use the ethanol in a spirit burner for cooking when I go camping ? Cheers.

[@MrVeryCranky]

​@@royblackburn1163Yes.

[@jims2286]

Love your Reher and Morrison tee-shirt. I took their engine building class back in 2010. Thank you for the great informative videos!!!

[@UnityMotorSportsGarage]

Reher and Morrison/ Shepherd were some of my Heros. I bet that was a great class!! Andy

[@davelewis2174]

Were lucky to have Ethanol free Boat Gas here runs about $1.00 a gallon more but my mower loves it

[@JrGoonior]

I have a BP near me that sells 90 Octane Ethanol-Free for about $1.00 more also. I've used it in my 08 300C and the car in my profile pic (79 Cordoba). They both love it!

[@8SecSleeper]

Didn't come on the scene in 2008, it was widely used in the 90s. My friends dad is the one who developed it and was using it for racing. He passed away in February. He had a full size lab in his garage to make it at home still as a hobby. But he spent over 30 years of his life running and setting up production plants to make ethanol.

[@smiddywesson2703]

Making ethanol in a garage is a fire hazard. Making it in an attached garage is suicide.

[@sambrannan7550]

Pretty cool. All I have is a lawn mower and I know just how much fuel it takes to mow my lawn. I run E85 and just let it run out of fuel when I am finished.

[@jeffh4505]

Do you mean E10? You should not be running E85 in a mower.

[@salvadormonella8953]

AWESOME!!! Somebody needs to make an automated gizmo to do that. They'd sell a bunch to the automotive scene. Ethanol is the scourge of performance cars everywhere.

[@rawister]

Why not just go to the pump marked non ethanol & pump that?

[@salvadormonella8953]

@@rawister Some places mandate ethanol be added to gasoline with no consumer choice possible.

[@dr.froghopper6711]

What you need is a chemistry set separation funnel. You can bleed off liquids out the bottom of the separation funnel with much better precision and save yourself some gasoline.

[@firstielasty1162]

Ethanol is not just soluble in water, it is miscible, so mixes completely at any ratio...so I think the layer in the milk jug at the end is some gas, rather than ethanol. It wouldn't mix just long enough to transfer out of the gas can, then suddenly divide into separate phases just because it's in a different container. I use avgas in mowers for the last mow of the season, not because it is 100 octane, but because of its storage properties, it will store a long time. Even when very old, it doesn't form varnish, just blue goo that easily dissolves in more gas. This works much better than gas stabilizers, which I don't think much of. The 100 octane is unnecessary but harmless. You might expect harder starting due to its slightly lower volatility, but I haven't noticed, even in snowblowers here in PA winters. I just mention the avgas because ethanol makes unused carbs dirty even faster than auto gas did before ethanol was added, which was bad enough!

[@tinof5829]

Yes. I have used avgas since I was able to get it from a local airport in the mid 70's. I use it in all my small engines as well.

[@foxmulder7616]

Wht about ina jeep/truck ? Would higher octane be harmful??

[@mikebutler6022]

Not sure about US 100 av gas but in Canada it has way too much lead in it for small 4stroke engines. causes valve and plug issues over time,, same as it does in piston aircraft engines. All our fuel sucks these days.

[@firstielasty1162]

I agree with you on the lead...I wish I could get the exact qualities of avgas, especially its stability in storage, without the lead. I haven't had lead fouling issues, but most of the engines I use it in don't get all that much use. Thus the need for Long lasting avgas. But the lead fouling is a possibility. Plus it's toxicity isn't a great quality, but I'm ok with minimizing my exposure to it. Most modern motor oils lack additives to disperse the crap that leaks by the rings, so that is a possible problem, too, but I haven't noticed it. Any 4 stroke I use it in gets frequent oil changes.

[@plips71755]

I knew I shouldn’t have skipped those classes.

[@kimmorrison9169]

Funny, I was just thinking of trying non ethanol gas for my 408 ci Nova (plus octane booster). Pretty slick Andy, pretty slick!

[@chuckredd9131]

Go to your LITTLE airport and buy the 100 avgas, won't go bad. (We still have our '69 Nova wife bought before we were married, my '35 Buick, '57 & '59 Chev pickup, one with the big window in rear.)

[@kimmorrison9169]

@@chuckredd9131 used 100LL for years then the local airport kicked me out for loaden up my 5 gal cans! It was $7.31 per gallon at the time.

[@randywoodruff9989]

Awesome experiment thanks for sharing

[@roadrunner4404]

Worked so quickly! I only use 93 oct in my lawn equipment. Under heavy grass load I can hear the motors flirting with detonation.

[@UnityMotorSportsGarage]

Yeah it's pretty quick.. I normally let it set for 15 Minutes to make sure it totally separates.. thanks for watching Andy

[@jimsmirh2406]

Pretty cool little experiment there Andy.

[@HiTechDiver]

If done on a regular basis, it would behoove one to have a container with a quarter turn spout at the very bottom; much easier to drain than siphon.

[@Old_Fart_Pushing_a_cart]

Add a tap to the bottom of the vessel (Separator)with a valve that way you can drain out the water/alcohol mix without all this siphon mess. As a side note add some acetone to reduce the chance of engine knock.

[@jhaedtler]

You can also contact the fuel jobber and buy ethanol free fuel direct from them. The ethanol is not added at the refinery. The jobber adds it as it is needed.

[@bluecar3576]

Been using 87 octane in lawnmower, weed eater and chainsaw for close to ten years with no problems

[@crazycoffee]

More and more I'm needing to make a biodiesel stille

[@jondickson75]

Protect this man at all costs

[@TonysHotRodGarage]

Good stuff Andy. Pretty cool😎

[@itseithergonnaworkoritaint7852]

That's cool man, so what's that corn liquor that you extracted taste like without the gas in it?🤔

[@AdamSmith-gs2dv]

Thank goodness we have a Bucees, they sell 87 E0 for a very reasonable price (10 cents more than 87 E10)

[@BudgetBallinGarage]

Nice! A good thing to know! 💯

[@RandomGuy010]

Here in Norway we only get E10 and 98 Octane. Once they discontinue the 98 I guess I'm gonna have to create a facility for streamlining this process.

[@jims2286]

Very ingenious like it. I hope you and maybe David Vizard could show use how to make your own octane booster

[@UnityMotorSportsGarage]

We might just do that.. Andy

[@micstica]

Ive been using a water blocking filter I bought from amazon for my final fuel pour into the machinery.

[@2000freefuel]

So what your telling us is you need to start with a higher grade of Gasoline and expect it to drop a few numbers in the final product. if it's really an issue you can add some Toluene to bump the octane figure up a touch.

[@edsmachine93]

Very nice science experiment Andy. Pretty cool. Thank you. Take care, Ed.

[@UnityMotorSportsGarage]

Thanks Ed! I'm glad you liked it.. Andy

[@keithcalitri840]

That’s very interesting andy thank you for the info

[@UnityMotorSportsGarage]

I'm glad you enjoyed it Keith! Thanks for watching Andy

[@myleftthumb2294]

While you mention that the octane decreases, fuel economy will go up. It varies by vehicle, so the math may or may not work out on your particular mode of transportation. But for most folks, it is 5 MPG or better, so definitely noticeable.

[@308dad8]

Yep cars get better fuel economy on nonethonol gas. They sell it for your old tractors and lawn mowers etc.

[@Prestiged_peck]

It's about 5-10% from e15 to non ethanol usually

[@stevenc6256]

Fully agree. I put straight gas in my 2001 v6 Jeep, I went from 18-19 mpg highway to 24. I couldn't believe it, but there it was.

[@mikecondoluci53]

MAN I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS THANKS ANDY

[@UnityMotorSportsGarage]

Thanks Mike! Andy

[@down2earth838]

You never want to run chainsaws on anything less then 90 octane. Unless of coarse you don’t care about fixing them all the time. 😂

[@terryrastetter]

remember when you remove the alcohol you lower the octane several points, 93 oct. turns into 90 oct. depending on place of purchase.

[@peppergrowmienola4850]

Pretty cool but it seems to me that it would be easier to pull the gas off the top than the water from the bottom.... Otherwise good info for sure.

[@RioSul50]

Since the ethanol acts as the antiknock agent do you add other antiknock components? In the 1970's I worked for Ethyl Corporaton and at our site we made Tetra Ethyl Lead and Tetra Methyl Lead for gasoline.

[@Andersljungberg]

The disadvantage of removing the ethanol is that you lower the octane content of the fuel, that you have to add something to compensate

[@johnwilburn]

Great video, Andy!

[@UnityMotorSportsGarage]

Thanks Brother

[@johnshackelford6965]

Andy I drained my gas and used blocks. The neighbors came when I put it in BBQ.

[@zachparrot3775]

I wss always told to mixed water with the gas , let it sit for 15mins than freeze it ....the water and the ethanol freezes the gas doesn't, so after it freezes you just dump out the clean non-ethanol fuel . While leaving the frozen water/ethanol mix in the container.

[@jimgee2676]

pretty cool trick thanx ...we used to have 91 octane ethenol free for our carb cars but 2 months ago they began adding 10 % ethenol to that fuel also

[@hope4ourfallen]

I know absolutely Nothing about engines or fuel systems. Would you mind explaining what the purified gas or the separated ethanol is used for? It was cool to see the process I just don't know enough about mechanic stuff to understand the purpose❤

[@jeffreystroman2811]

Having a large clear container with a drain and valve installed in the bottom that can be manipulated without disturbing the contents would be clutch

[@peterolson8350]

What happens to the octane number when you do that? It is quite common to mix in 20-30% ethanol (E85) in regular petrol, to raise the octane number here in Sweden.

[@UnityMotorSportsGarage]

it lowers the octane of the Gasoline.. It can vary based on the % of Ethanol used. Thanks for watching Peter, Andy

[@NN-sj9fg]

Have been removing ethanol for all my power equipment for over 2 years. Pure gasoline will absorb 120 PPM (Parts Per Million) of water. Because ethanol is hygroscopic (absorbing moisture from the air), gasoline with 10% ethanol will absorb 7,000 PPM of water. If left to stand, this is the cause of "bad gas". As an aside, fuel used in non-jet aircraft engines is ethanol free - you would not want your carburetor to freeze up in flight.

[@mikejohnson9118]

1 So the price of the gas increased by 10%-ish (~10% loss) + your time. 2 How much you reckon the octane is lowered? 87>>85..84? 3 Have you captured the "ethanol" mix. Alcohol has alot of uses. Burning, cleaning, deicing. 4 Basic use for low compression engines. Due to lowered octane. Cheers

[@Channelscruf]

I am what is commonly known in some circles as first.

[@dickbutt7854]

"I'm gonna show you how to do this." "Don't do this at home."

[@jamesroberts807]

Great video, I thought you was going to use crude oil to make it 😆 🤣 😂 lol

[@67robb]

What happens with all the waste mixture?

[@kurtlanford1448]

It’s such a shame that our government did this to us! Corn is food , not fuel !

[@antoniobragancamartins3165]

In Brazil our cars can work indistinctly with ethanol or gasoline and personally I use only ethanol with a series of advantages

[@jodycalhoun6319]

Very interesting!

[@chrishensley6745]

that was cool man and thanks for sharing it.

[@UnityMotorSportsGarage]

Thanks for watching I'm glad you enjoyed it Andy

[@ericthorsell7515]

If your local gas station has 10% corn squeezing added it simple math to figure out how much water to add. 128 ounces is a gallon, 10% of that is 12.8 ounces, round up to 13 ounces, add that a.oint of water to a gallon of gas, shake the hell out of it and you'll end up with 26 ounces of water ethanol mix that kills weeds.

[@Jerry-ko9pi]

If you get a container that has a drain, you can just drain out the water.

[@dandahermitseals5582]

That's serious Kool.😂😂😅

[@barrygrant2907]

I would have just run to the gas station and bought the gas I needed. A while back, on a long road trip, I ran my flex-fuel truck on regular one way, and E85 on the trip back. The E85 was definitely less efficient MPG-wise (less mileage, less cost), but the overall cost per mile between the two was a wash, the final number within a penny or two. While E85 being less common in my area, I don't bother with it, seeing as there is no advantage to it.

[@davidparker9676]

What do you do with the water/ethanol waste?

[@ericdolby1622]

I don't find ethanol in gas to be a bad thing unless you let it sit for a long time. Course that doesn't happen in Florida when you have to mow every

[@prawny12009]

Proof i guess would be to check the specific gravity of the water before and after to see how much ethanol is present.

[@conradsmith2441]

A real scientist...

[@matthewfredrickmfkrz1934]

The mix of gas water and ethanol is actually chemistry in suspension opposed to action

[@randolphsnyder1505]

So ,do you have a creative use for the ethanol, looks like it would be easy enough to siphon it off.

[@jamesbrooks5442]

Looks like a good way to get burnt gas vapors can travel a long way fast i use lucas in 87 gas and use it quick

[@rickeydriskill1096]

Thats interesting. Very helpful

[@UnityMotorSportsGarage]

Thanks for watching Andy

[@jimciancio9005]

Be so much easier and efficient to do if you used a separatory funnel with a bottom release valve. Make biodiesel and they are priceless for separation of the fatty acids and base materials that you definitely don't want in your fuel system, because just like ethanol they're corrosive agents. But yes Sir we do the same thing with water and diesel to neutralize the base reagents from the bio-diesel, as the final stages of what's called the "Rinsing cycle" of the oils. The fact many organic substances are hydroscopic, by running a clean rinse water through these oils or petroleum products, you can extract the chemicals from them you don't wish to remain in them. Stirring as well as a good separatory funnel is the only means to getting this done. The rest is having a good deal of patience and allowing the product to set once its finished Stirring. Otherwise you may find, your leaving behind your unwanted products and water in your oils, which is never a good thing when it comes to diesel injection systems! 😅 but thanks for sharing this. We have been using the water method for gasoline for quite some time now as well, thankfully we can still buy premium fuel in upstate NY without the garbage ethanol being utilized in the gas. Stewart's shops are the only places to get it though. All the rest sell premium garbage alcohol added Sh1t which is detrimental to any engine or fuel system especially if it sits around for any length of time absorbing the humidity from the air.

[@OshuaJiles]

I've ran 10% ethanol in every engine I've ever owned and it's literally never caused me any problems. Old timers will say it gunks up carburetors or it's bad on small engines and that's a load of crap. Your carburetors gunk up or your jets clog because you left gasoline in your mower all winter long. Run the fuel out before storing and these issues will disappear.

[@jeffwilliams8277]

If you let it sit longer the gas will become clear. I have been doing this for years at the dealership when cars come in with contaminated fuel. It takes several hours but the will be clear. Then I run it truck.

[@donaldchase329]

If you are unsure of just how much of the water still remains you can add a bit of acetone (Dry Gas) before you use it but don't overdo it.

[@SThomp1]

Slick!

[@syntropicboer609]

There are various methods too dry your e85 gas and additives for fuel as well as simple filters that will remove any water that's in your fuel...

[@muffs55mercury61]

I'm lucky I live in Arkansas and non ethanol is everywhere both here and in Oklahoma but if I go to Arizona there's almost none west of Amarillo until Holbrook, AZ (about 550 miles) and none at all in Phoenix. Of course there's no way to do this on the road but I'll remember this if it pure gas becomes not available anymore. I have two old cars and a riding lawnmower.

[@drcracinggarage8047]

Very Cool Andy

[@UnityMotorSportsGarage]

Thanks man!

[@jimgiordano2576]

thanks andy

[@Sergio-ih6lk]

Great video and demonstration just saying

[@UnityMotorSportsGarage]

Thanks for watching Andy

[@markeasterwood1187]

There seems to be some unnecessary wastage in your process. When you're done with the siphoning of the separated layers, what you had on top in your gallon jug is wasted gasoline, not ethanol. Ethanol and water do not separate. I think you would have been better off to siphon off the gas on the top layer to somewhere near the water/ethanol layer.

[@rdleahey]

Interesting!

[@unclesquirrel6951]

Personally I blame squirrels

[@UnityMotorSportsGarage]

Me too...

[@fungames9682]

When ethanol firt cane oit😊 it destroyed the gaskets in my carb in my pickup. After two carb rebuilds in a year they finally got some gaskets that resited alcohol

[@johnwingate8799]

Fuel pumps in old ford's,too.

[@Panotaker]

So what do you do with the ethonol you have left over?

[@lloydscharf6897]

What is the cost of a galon of gas that is freed fom the ethanol. wished you had shown the volume of gas you started with and the volume you finished with. especially in cold weather adding 100% isopropanal dry gas would mix any remaining water with the gas and prevent carb-iceing.

[@matthewmiller6418]

I personally wish they go back to regular and unleaded