On March 21st 2020, Faith the Dodge was
placed on axle stands to sit out covid. I suspected the Dodge would be out of
use for some time and it had already been six months since the last event in
2019 and the Dodge was parked up in the container. The battery had been
removed at that time for maintenance over the winter. During 2020, I made two
visits to Faith to run the engine and exercise the brakes etc, each time with
fuel that was months and then over a year old. Both times, Faith fired up
without problems after a good prime.
Now on March 22nd 2021, it was time to
bring Faith to the new house, in preparation for the work on the garage to
allow all three vehicles to be garaged together. The first step was to get the
Dodge back down off the axle stands. After that, the 6 volt battery was fitted
and the Dodge started up - now on fuel that was around two years old!!! Once
running, the Dodge was backed out of the container to allow ten gallons of
fresh fuel to be added through the left side fill cap. This wasn't accessible
while in the container. After plenty to time to warm up and load up the
container contents, I set off on the short three mile trip back to out
Washington home to check over the Dodge further and to blow up the tyres.
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