Fuel Quality

[stonepa]

All - as things south of the US border begin to reopen, I once again am thinking of destinations south. I typically take my 98 100 when I head to Mexico and and central america but it is stuck in Alaska so I will take my 200. I've driven it a few times and have found that both vehicles seem to run well on any reasonable unleaded, petroleum based fuel I feed them. Usually I buy from reputable gas stations - Shell, Pemex, BP, Olympia. Other times, you buy whatever you can get. Sometimes the fuel is old, sometimes the source is a bit dodgy (yay coffee filters) but it always seems to work. Just curious what other's experiences are.

 

[CharlieS]

I’ve never traveled to that part of the world, but would something like this be useful:
Mr. Funnel AF8CB Fuel Filter
Amazon product ASIN B000SOKE5E

 

[rscoleman]

When I lived in AZ use to go fishing with friends south of boarder very remote places. I added boat style water separator filter and inline filter to gas line on my T100. I never got fuel that was bad enough that truck would not run but did after one trip have decent amount of water in that filter. At minimum I would add easy to replace inline fuel filter.

 

[stonepa]

I’ve never traveled to that part of the world, but would something like this be useful:
Mr. Funnel AF8CB Fuel Filter
Amazon product ASIN B000SOKE5E

Ordered! Looks like a much better solution than my DIY coffee filter in a huge funnel solution.

 

[4wheelgreg]

Besides the crap in the fuel station tanks I wonder if you can get ethanol free gas in Mexico these days , back in the day when I lived in Texas and California it no problem running into Mexico for fuel , we actually made big funnels that held bag filters down to 1 micron , basiclly was 4” PVC pipe and had a hook that would connect to the roof rack and just had hose that went into the fuel fill .
It was over kill but worked great , we got good life out of the filters , just don’t put them in the LC after using , we put them in bags till we got to camp sites and let them evaporate we got 5 to 10 fill ups , crazy you could see the crap , we ran 2 micron and worked fine , way better than any fuel filter .
just my 2 cents