Q: Bad fuel in tank.

asked by on December 28, 2016

Jeep has been sitting for a while and has bad fuel in it along with a dirty gas tank... Starts up shifts perfect but sometimes runs rough and stalls...

My car has 65000 miles.
My car's transmission is unknown to me.

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