i have a little under half a tank of gas in my bird thats sitting on jack stands, i want to take the gas out and fill the tank with fresh gas with stablizer, i didnt have a hose long enough to suck it out and i dont want to burn out the pump cranking it wiht the line going into a gas jug. any suggestions are apprecaited

 

go buy 4 feet of hose and shove it down the filler neck, or hotwire the pump until the gas guage almost reads completely empty and just fill it back up

 

Get a longer hose.

 

ok ill go hose shopping tomorrow.

 

well the absolute fastest would be drill a whole in it...Id by soem hose.. Its really not all that expensive.

 

Hmm, or you could do it mythbusters style and shoot some tracer rounds at it

 

i was going to say a lighter... But this one time i cought my face on fire after seeing a video online and peer pressure....

To anyone on the board that reads this... never let your friends talk you into doing things with fire... You'll end up like me... in the hospital but you get one hell of a story to say at school...Just remember if you burn your face.. Neosporin is your best bet.

 

That's not true at all. Unless the hole was a few inches in diameter then a pump would empty it much quicker.

 

go to a marine supply place and buy a oil suction pump for a boat

 

If you disconnect the fuel line at the fuel filter, most of the gas will drain out. You can also disconnect the return line, which may be easier, and most of the gas will also come out. Drain it into a can. That is how I drained the gas when when I pulled the gas tank. Be careful if the lines are rusty-I ended up having to buy new metal lines because of the corrosion. When I tried to disconnect the lines at the fuel filter, the nut was siezed to the tubing and tubing tore when I turned the nut.

 

ive tried sticking a hose down into my gas tank but it gets to a certain point and always gets stuck and won't reach the tank.. i was using fairly thin tubing too, so i dunno how well that will work for you..i kno i have yet to be able to siphon anything at all outta my tank

 

yeah i tried with a few pieces of hose i jammmed inside one another it was prob around 4 feet long but i still didnt get any gas, im gonna try and dissconnect the line at the filter.

 

I used a cheap electric fuel pump and mounted ot to a 2x6x 12 inches long and used about 6 feet of hose and pumped it out that way. I also used a short piece of steel line on the end of the rubber hose so it will out a little more weight on the hose and so I can tell when it hits the bottom of the tank.