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Originally Posted by lindbhr View Post
You can get bad fuel from a few sources. The ones I remember the most were: 1) phase separation - when gasoline blended with ethanol separate at he gas station, 2) incorrect ethanol blending into the tanker truckload as it's being loaded, and 3) water getting into the fuel at a gas station, especially after a heavy rain, 4) water getting into the fuel at a truck terminal.
It was that particular station pretty much all of the time, so I assume it's that they had leaky tanks or did something nefarious.
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