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Old Feb 14, 2007 | 02:13 AM
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Question did i get bad gas?

i put 20 dollars of mid grade in my lightning today (i know it says 93 but in the winter i dont drive fast so i put midgrade in) i noticed after i got about 20 miles from the gas station my truck developed a miss i was at a red light and every few seconds i could feel it but the truck drove fine then on the way home i noticed that when i would try to accelerate it was very choppy or hesitant then after holding that throttle point it would clear up and go away but then when i would try to accel again it would do the same thing,

so could this be from me getting bad gas or should i just do a tune up?

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chris
 
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Old Feb 14, 2007 | 08:29 AM
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May just be some condensation. Run a bottle of Techron in the tank and see if it clears up.
 
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Old Feb 14, 2007 | 01:27 PM
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sound like you got some watter in the fuel, use a quailty gas drier and change the F/F just to be sure.
 
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Old Feb 14, 2007 | 02:16 PM
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Well when i first got my truck i tried to do the same thing and got the same result so i would say it could just be mid-grade gas. I think the techron solution would work wonders.
 
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Old Feb 14, 2007 | 05:58 PM
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i bought some heet from autozone and when i fill up im going to see if it works i had a friend of mine check it out and he say theres nothing to worry about and that the mid grade is ok to use as long as i stay "out of boost"
 
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Old Feb 16, 2007 | 01:38 PM
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If you hear anything that sounds like a can of marbles being rattled, GET OFF THE GAS! thats the horrifing sound of detination....
 
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Old Feb 17, 2007 | 05:01 PM
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Originally Posted by LTNDave
If you hear anything that sounds like a can of marbles being rattled, GET OFF THE GAS! thats the horrifing sound of detination....

lol i like your description of detination but thats not what im hearing i put a can of heet in a that seemed to take care of everything all i know is that im not getting gas from that station anymore
 
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Old Feb 19, 2007 | 01:20 PM
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Originally Posted by twizzler93tt
lol i like your description of detination but thats not what im hearing i put a can of heet in a that seemed to take care of everything all i know is that im not getting gas from that station anymore
Good Deal.
 
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