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Harvard
Feb 06, 2014Explorer
For what it is worth, if 55 gallons of gasoline (at 0.7400 g/cc density @60F) were warm up from 60F to 130F it would expand by about (very roughly) 5 percent, that would expand the 55 gallons to 57.75 gallons.
And no, you will NOT get any more miles out of the tank because the increases in temperature has not changed the weight (mass) which in turn establishes the BTU content of the tank full. :)
And no, you will NOT get any more miles out of the tank because the increases in temperature has not changed the weight (mass) which in turn establishes the BTU content of the tank full. :)
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