Scrap yard offers free fuel

Originally Posted by SKWrapper

Anyone else scrap yard offer free gasoline?



The scrap yard I frequent occasionally offers free fuel, it's fuel recovered from the tanks of vehicles scrapped, I just found that out. It's great but my truck ran kinda weird with a half tank of it, I didn't attribute it to that because I didn't know at the time - I really need to do more research and ask more questions... but I don't think I will be taking advantage of that again. I am not a snob and "free fuel" is pretty great but I don't want to mess up my old truck, besides I count the cost of fuel when I do scrap, but it was kinda nice the one time I actually got free fuel.

Bad fuel has ruined more carburetors and injector systems than anything I can think of. The smaller the engine, the more damage. If you have ants or burn scrap timber, it would be a good deal. I am actually surprised a scrap yard in a metropolitan area will take vehicles with the fuel tank attached, much less without a hole in it. The oldest scrapper trick is to add water to any tanks for the additional weight. Belly trucks would fill the tank with water and leave a lake after unloading the steel. Therefore most yards require holes in all tanks.