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Should I change fluids?

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#1 ·
Gents,

My car has been sitting since last summer. I wasnt planning on it sitting this long but life gets busy. Just completed a brake job, hydroboost conversion, and a laundry list of other things. When I parked the car it had a full tank of pump premium in a new tank, a fresh oil filter and 7 new quarts of 5w30 conventional oil. The oil still looks like honey on the dipstick. Plugs were pretty new too.

Heres my question:
Should I dump the gas tank, change the oil and plugs? 20 gallons of gas isn’t exactly convenient to get rid of. Or should I just pour some gas down the carb and give it hell?

Thanks In advance.

-Ryan
 
#12 ·
Thanks. I don’t have many pictures of it actually. Lots of pictures of work being done on it but only a few decent shots of it as a whole. I should probably work on that.
 
#13 ·
Yeah what was going to be a weekend project snowballed itself into a year long project damn near. I rarely ever PLAN on parking it so I never treat the fuel. It just kind of happens. I’ve heard good things about stabil
 
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#14 ·
You are definitely all good to go. Take it out for a good drive and then top it off with some fresh gas. Then after that, get it out for a drive at least every two to four weeks, more than that if you can. Hopefully you put some kind of gas stabilizer in the tank when you know it's going to be sitting for five months or so. Oh, and like I always say, speed safely! 😄
 
#17 ·
Sounds like I’ll be be firing her up this weekend!! Thanks guys.
 
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