Tips on siphoning gas.

[DominionSeraph]

Ha ha, when siphoning you dont suck, you blow. Create positive pressure in the tank and the fuel will be pushed out.

Would only work that way if he has a really good seal, which would probably kill the siphoning later with vacuum.

 

[marvdmartian]

Easiest way, if you don't have a pump, is to shove a bunch of the hose down into the tank, plug the end, pull the house out (the gasoline that flooded the hose when you shoved it down into the tank will stay inside, since you're not allowing air back into the hose), and shove the plugged end into the other container (preferably at a lower height off the ground), then unplug the end of the hose. Gravity will start the fuel in the hose flowing, siphon action will keep it flowing.

Trust me when I say, you DO NOT want a mouthful of gasoline! :whiste:

 

[Howard]

Use a blow torch to cut a hole in the bottom.

i'm gonna try that some day

 

[FuzzyDunlop]

i'm gonna try that some day

Seems like sound advise to me....

That is the exact one I bought and mentioned earlier in the thread.

Yup, your advise prevailed.

so you spent $10 to siphon maybe $15 worth of gas?

Ummm, Ya, half a tank of gas is heavy. especially when your working by yourself with only about 20" of work space under the car. I also have no idea how old the gas is either, 5 months at least, proly not real good anymore. more for ease of work than anything.

 

[hanoverphist]

my old suburbans fuel pump died at the gas station, right after we filled it up for a trip. 42 gallon tank. had it towed to a local dealer for the work to be done, got it back with an empty tank. i was pissed, but they saw my side of it and filled it up. im assuming they siphoned it all out, there was no other way. at my friends shop, we will drop the tank with a jack without siphoning it. unless we are working on the tank itself, its been much more efficient to do it that way than draining it. this is while the car is on a lift and specific created jacks are used. cuts down on the labor costs for the customer and makes it easier on the mechanic.