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    Posted: 5 hours 59 minutes ago at 8:53am
For storage over winter, is it better to have a full tank or empty to minimize rusting?
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Full, less space for condensation. 
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I think it depends on where you live. Hubert has a lot of high humidity in his area.. Where i live the humidity is very low in the winter. I like to keep the tanks as low a possible to keep the posibility of gas going bad.. Normally gas in our area is good for several months ( even the 10% ethanol)... but i run the tanks low, then put a couple gallons back in during april / may and fire them up for the summer.. Never have a carburetor plugging problem. .. also have pretty good luck with no oxidizing of the magneto point... They just fire up after setting 5-6 months..

Got a CASE 530 backhoe with a distributor.. do the same with it.. it can set 6 months at a time, no problems.


Edited by steve(ill) - 1 hour 59 minutes ago at 12:53pm
Like them all, but love the "B"s.
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Factors other than humidity come into play. I bought an old Cat had been sitting in a barn out in a country that only averages about 8 inches of rain a year. I have relatively low humidity at my place 50 miles west with 20 inches of rain average. So this had to be lower humidity yet. I have never seen rust like this tank had. An L shaped tank and over 2/3 full of old time diesel that burned just fine once filtered from the rust. But a very good example of what happens to tanks not full of fuel.
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