I dumped/drained a 5 gallon gas (93 non-ethanol) can (poly) into my SeaDoo PWC and the next time I took it out, it died. It turns out, I "probably" had water in the fuel.
I now have about 10 gallons of "suspect" gas and I am wondering if I can let it settle/stabilize and siphon off the top 9 gallons or so and safely use it in the skis or the boat (with water/fuel separators) or maybe just use it in my old lawnmower?
Details:
The fuel was in a poly container for almost 4 months in Florida and had been treated with stabilizer.
To get the ski running perfectly, I drained the fuel tank (as best I could), pulled and flushed the fuel injectors and fuel rail, put fresh gas in, added injector cleaner, and changed the spark plugs. I am not 100% sure that just changing the spark plugs might have been the problem (only 30 hours on the plugs) and I did not see/smell any overt evidence of water...BUT all is fine now.

I've put contaminated gas in a big spring water bottle and let it settle out.then poured the cleaned gas off and used it in my car.no problems.

I would trash any gas that I thought could even potentially be suspect. No use in saving $30.

Your time isn't worth $30 bucks and the risk isn't worth $30

At least it wasn't 120 gallons of 93 you had to pump out of your tank, like we just did on our boat. I never had the chance to run it out after my wifes wreck last year. It was treated so now its car and mower gas.

I've reused water contaminated, separated non-ethanol gasoline. I usually put 5 gallons into my truck and then top off with 18-20 fresh gallons at the pump. The 496 doesn't seem to mind it.

Throw it away…

agreed. Toss it, however if you live in an area where good gas is hard to come by you can put in an inline fuel/water separator easily.

Those only hold what, 8-10 ounces of water ?