Did they have to track down leaded gas? Did they just use unleaded? Did they suffer engine knock?

  • Melkath@kbin.social
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    5 months ago

    My first car was almost a completely trashed 1970 Buick Skylark, this was in 2002.

    It ran on leaded gasoline, so the plan was that id need to fill the unleaded gas into a gas-can, then mix in the lead additive, shake, and then fill its gas tank.

    Ended up getting an 89 Caddy Deville that the seller was asking half as much for.

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      5 months ago

      Is that the instructions for adding lead? You can’t dump it in first and then the flow from filling up the tank be enough to mix it? Or put it in halfway?

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        5 months ago

        Idk dude.

        I had a leaded gas goped whose motor was from a weed Wacker.

        My step-dad brought home the gas can of unleaded, then I squirted some of the lead additive in the can, and I’d kinda swish the can around before refueling the goped.

        Worked for the 2 months before the goped was stolen.

        Didn’t end up buying the skylark, so never had my dinosaur juice leadifying skills refined.