I need a device to siphon gas.

[1Garageman]

I am looking for some advice on what to buy to siphon gas. I still have a full tank of gas in my snow blower and need to get it out. And a lot of times come winter times I have a full tank of gas in my mower and need to get it out.

So i'd like to buy a gas siphoners, but there are so many choices I don't know what to get????

 

[VWandDodge]

Why not get some tubing and connect it to the bottom of the tank and gravity drain it? Otherwise, look for a bulb siphon.

 

[Zrexxer]

It's a highly technical device, not well known to most of civilized society. It's called a "hose."

 

[petee_c]

I like the jiggy tubes/hoses for siphoning gas. Might be a bit hard to get started on a snowblower tank, because it isn't very deep, but better than a mouthful of gas.

Is the drain on the carb easily assessable? On my Honda blower, there is actually a tiny spigot to drain the carbs, you could just run it through there, unless your tank is almost full.

VW posts a good pic of a bulb siphon. The ones' I've seen/used are cheaper, and the bulb doesn't have good suction. They had a cheap accordian type bulb.

 

[Lou's Garage]

I made one out of a pressure bulb like used for marine outboard engines. Attach some hose to each end, pump the bulb to get the flow started and let gravity do the rest.

Lou

 

[shannonw]

Probably too big for your purpose, but if you need to move a lot of gas, this thing is the bomb:

http://www.basspro.com/E-Z-Siphon/product/10210534/-1746926

I use it to gas up the boat from 5 gallon jugs. Shake it a few times and it goes through a 5 gallon jug in no time. I've only seen em there.

 

[shopnut]

I made one out of a pressure bulb like used for marine outboard engines. Attach some hose to each end, pump the bulb to get the flow started and let gravity do the rest.

Lou

+1

The $10 marine primer bulbs mentioned above (like the one here) make great siphons. They are made to handle gas and last a long time - mine has lasted 15 years so far.

Internal check valves let you pump gas to get the siphon going, then you just let gravity do it's thing. Once it starts sucking air from the nearly empty tank, start pumping again while moving the hose around to get the last drops.

Dont have gravity to help you out in some cases? - just pump it all out, it flows pretty fast.

 

[99SVT]

http://www.autozone.com/autozone/ac...-26df?itemIdentifier=94647&_requestid=3463773

 

[1Garageman]

It's a highly technical device, not well known to most of civilized society. It's called a "hose."

NO **** Shirlock, and there are 100 different models. So i'd like some suggestions on which ones people have had success with there swifty

 

[VWandDodge]

NO **** Shirlock, and there are 100 different models. So i'd like some suggestions on which ones people have had success with there swifty

OK -- I'm speaking from experience. I tried the accordion style, against my better judgement, and it proved to be garbage. I have a bulb style as mentioned above, that I've used to drain two fuel tanks from cars and I regularly use it whenever I have to drain my solvent tank. IIRC, I paid $15 for it and it was money well spent.

 

[1Garageman]

Probably too big for your purpose, but if you need to move a lot of gas, this thing is the bomb:

http://www.basspro.com/E-Z-Siphon/product/10210534/-1746926

I use it to gas up the boat from 5 gallon jugs. Shake it a few times and it goes through a 5 gallon jug in no time. I've only seen em there.

I saw that device at Menards yesturday and didn't get it. I didn't understand what that heck it was and I was in hurry. So does that one end do the pumping for you? So you don't have to "****" on it yourself?

 

[Gary S]

I use a spare electric fuel pump from a fuel injected car. I put a hose on each end of the pump and connected wires to it. The wires have clips on the ends to attach to a battery. It will empty a fuel tank in minutes.

 

[Zrexxer]

NO **** Shirlock, and there are 100 different models. So i'd like some suggestions on which ones people have had success with there swifty

You're not getting it there, genius... a piece of tubing. You're trying to buy a tool to do something you could have already accomplished with 12 cents worth of fuel line. You've been indoctrinated into the GJ cult - why do something that you can do with your bare hands for free when Snap On makes a $100 tool for it... and it's Sherlock.

 

[nehog]

Pull the gas hose off the filter (or carb) and (for free!) it will drain the tank. Then run the engine until it dies from lack of fuel.

Why spend two dollars on a hose when it is not necessary or desirable?

 

[Displaced Hokie]

I use the $4 bulb/hose one's you find at the auto store or even Walmart. Work great. If I get a bunch of goo in them (from a dirty tank), I just scrap it and get another.

 

[Bruce Lancaster]

And is you like the jigglers, remember how they were probably invented: Someone picked his old PCV out of the trash can after a tune-up and stuck it into a piece of fuel tubing...
Sucking works, but rmember that a bit of gas getting into your lungs can cause inhalation pneumonia and can potentially kill you. Be real careful, a bad taste in your mouth can be the least of it.

 

[shannonw]

1Garageman, no sucking, you just put one end in the gas, the other to the tank (has to be lower), give the hose a couple shakes on the gas end, the marble creates the suction and gets it's going in seconds. It's the best thing since sliced bread.

 

[shannonw]

The hose is 1/2 it moves a lot of gas, used to take me forever with a primer bulb and hose to empty a 5 a gallon can, this thing seems to do it in minutes

 

[NUTTSGT]

If I see one of those "stick it in and shake your hose" things at Menards, I'm buying one.

When I need to move fuel, I generally break out my old Holley Blue pump(car guys will know what I'm talking about). I section of hose on each end and cigarette lighter plug on it for power. I plug it into rechargeable CH air compressor with a 12V DC output.

 

[G_P]

90's GM cars had a red wire with a spade connector hanging above the drivers side wheel well. Connect this to the pos Batt terminal and the fuel pump will run manually and you can just disconnect/cut a fuel line and pump the gas out easily.

This is how I drained the full tank on my 95 Grand Am that got ran over by a semi.

 

[NJHandyGuy]

i empty all the fuel out of cars i scrap take one tube into the car i have a puimp that fits in my cordless drill and the other tube into a barrel 3 minutes later i can pum over 45 gallons

 

[Oldtymeflyr]

I now use an electric fuel pump. Its an old GM unit and its worked very well. There are a bunch of low pressure pumps that will work.

If its for storage purposes, then I use Stabil. To each their own.

 

[onelochevy]

I used a hand pump syphon that I picked up from HF to **** all of the old gas from my generator. Worked like a champ.

http://www.harborfreight.com/multi-use-transfer-pump-66418.html

 

[premierplayer]

I now use an electric fuel pump. Its an old GM unit and its worked very well. There are a bunch of low pressure pumps that will work.

If its for storage purposes, then I use Stabil. To each their own.

I'm all about that Stabil, I start all my personal and the Companys off season equipment every 30 days with fleet PMI's. Amazing what a little run time will do to keep things from gumming/seizing up.

+1 on the electric fuel pump if you can't disconnect at the bottom of the tank and let gravity be your friend.

 

[dodgeramsst2003]

I use what is commonly referred to as a donkey d*&k. They're what is sold for transferring kerosene. I have two and they have lasted for years even transferring gas.

Here is a link to one:
http: //www.kerosene-wicks.com/A46435.htm
(remove space I can't remember whether hot linking is allowed here or not)

 

[josall]

I bought this it moves 4qts a min. works great.

http://www.acehardware.com/product/...pump&origkw=utility+pump&searchId=56704709973

 

[ZRX61]

Don't use a vacuum cleaner to start the siphon, did that when I was 16 & the vacuum cleaner detonated like a landmine..

 

[1Garageman]

I used a hand pump syphon that I picked up from HF to **** all of the old gas from my generator. Worked like a champ.

http://www.harborfreight.com/multi-use-transfer-pump-66418.html

Thanks a ton for all the replys guys! Since HarborFrieght is farly close I might run up there and grab this. I just need something small to get gas out of the snow blower, lawn mower, and weed wacker every now and then. I had no clue they were this cheap either!

 

[haugy]

Thanks a ton for all the replys guys! Since HarborFrieght is farly close I might run up there and grab this. I just need something small to get gas out of the snow blower, lawn mower, and weed wacker every now and then. I had no clue they were this cheap either!

When you do that, you can actually pump it a few times, then leave the handle extended out, and it will auto-siphon. I've used it before. Does the job.

 

[J.Jose]

Website & instructional video of using the gas tapper
http://www.gastapper.com/

 

[colin39]

Pump from an old washing machine moves fuel double quick and is 12volt, well it is here in the y-uk

 

[wrench409]

It's a highly technical device, not well known to most of civilized society. It's called a "hose."

Not just any hose either. Old green garden hose 1/2 to 3/4 inch in diameter works for me.

 

[theoldwizard1]

I made one out of a pressure bulb like used for marine outboard engines. Attach some hose to each end, pump the bulb to get the flow started and let gravity do the rest.

I made one of these about 5 years ago. I keep wondering what took me so long to think of it.

There is a check valve in the bulb, so yes, you can pump up hill.

 

[bob15]

NO **** Shirlock, and there are 100 different models. So i'd like some suggestions on which ones people have had success with there swifty

Good siphoning hoses:

Garden hoses, 1/4", 5/16", 3/8" black fuel line hose, tygon tubing (multiple sizes), clear tubing. Grow up working on a farm, you learn how to siphon at an early age......

Have you ever siphoned anything before?

 

[lilredex]

Just turn it over on its side.. Unless you have a lot of gas a 48 Oz. juice can will handle it. No siphon hose needed.

 

[LS6 Tommy]

Plastic tank? Usually held on by 2 self tapping screws. Remove screws, dump remaing gas into your gas can with a funnel. Been doing it this way for over 3 decades...

Tommy

 

[Garageguy65]

Why don't you disconnect the fuel line into the carb. Put that line into a gas can and drain it that way??

Another thing you may want to do is to get a fuel shutoff petcock.. Run some stabil into the tank, let the blower run and shut of the petcock. Let her run dry. Stabil in the tank for the summer. Fuel drained out of the carb by letting it run dry. All set.

 

[Leaflessshadetree]

Good siphoning hoses:

Garden hoses, 1/4", 5/16", 3/8" black fuel line hose, tygon tubing (multiple sizes), clear tubing. Grow up working on a farm, you learn how to siphon at an early age......

Have you ever siphoned anything before?

Yep, and if you think you have to **** on the hose to get it started you deserve a mouthful of gas.

 

[Jlbc212]

Two hoses.

 

[VDubJoe]

Harbor freight has the jiggler hoses.

Joe