you also need the right weight engine oil.
Amen. The typical old school Rotella 15W-40 cranks so very slowly or not enough at the right temp, 10W-30 is exponentially thinner, good enough for here, then there's thinner even weights yet for new rigs, the synthetic stuff is like water.
I've seen tanker trucks filling the underground tanks in heavy snow storms and you know some is getting into the underground tanks as well so I will keep doing what I'm doing.
Never EVER ever gas up during a fuel delivery, avoid it and avoid things like frozen fuel lines.
As resident purveyor of solid/gospel information BJ rightly pointed out, the methanol - do not drink! - in gasolines today will "move water" absorb it into the fuel, theoretically.
And certainly to the point that buying fuel line deicer should be a thing of the past.
Should be, unless you fuel up during "fuel drops".
No no.
When I worked for Ryder Truck, a nationwide rental fleet plus lease work for EZ Loader boat trailers, USPS carriers, etc, we had our own fuel tanks and my job every morning - besides changing the station to from Country to Rock while the air compressor kicked on and my boss couldn't hear it happening - was "sticking" the fuel tanks.
Like this.
You take this graduated ten foot pole, and you put something like talcum powder on the end, the 1st foot, and then you stick the tank, and you pull the stick out, and it gives you
TWO readings.
Ones is the overall height of the fuel which translates into volume, and the other reading at the bottom is the water at the bottom of the tank, and for us, it was usually around a foot of water.
And what happens when the fuel man makes his drop, is that presumably the force of the incoming stream of fuel will take all of that water at the bottom of the tank, and put it in suspension.
Wise drivers don't do it.
Was dating a gorgeous countergirl at Schucks/Kragen/Reilly (how many parts counter girls have you dated?) and her Honda was running weird/dying all the time no one could figure it out, it turned out she had like 3 gallons of water at the bottom or gas tank. Once drained, problem solved. It would slosh going around corners, go through the engine, make it run like crap and make it die at the worst times, risking frozen fuel lines in winter, way to much for any alcohol to absorb and move.
You can analyze your gas in a clear jar, drain a small engine float boat and look for droplets of water, or worse, lots of water = rust & corrosion, yech.
