"James Sweet" wrote in message
news:N_ZWg.1257$P92.1020@trndny02...
So I recently acquired a 1965 Bayliner 19', I already know I have a huge
project ahead of me but before I can go much further, the fuel tank is
*full* of gas which has been sitting in there for over 4 years. There
was a bottle of stabilizer among the assorted crap in the boat but I'm
guessing this stuff must be far too old to run in a motor. How do I get
rid of it? There must be close to 20 gallons of 50:1.

I bought a boat that had 150 gallons of 9 year old gas in it. The boat had
a stainless steel gas tank and the owner had put stabil in before storage.

I got rid of it by siphoning off 5 gallons at a time and using it in my old
(1974) chevy pickup mixing with new gas. ( i got tired of driving that
old rig as my daily driver just to use up the gas)

I did this untill I got it down to around 1/3 tank and filled up the boat
tank. The outboards ran fine on this.

btw, the old gas still smelled like gas. --this is important

Good luck.

db