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Originally posted by MikeinNC:
^ are you saying you shouldn’t siphon gasoline with your mouth? PSHAWWW. Back in my day we ate asbestos sandwiches with grey Poupon and siphoned LEADED gas out of ford fairlanes to wash it down.

Crazy talk….kids these days don’t even know how good leaded gas smells or tastes…siphoning unleaded would be like washing your mouth with Diet Coke, blechhh.

And we poured used oil down the storm sewer like the good Lord intended.

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Originally posted by jhe888:


And we poured used oil down the storm sewer like the good Lord intended.

Recycling at its finest you tree-huggin hippies [shakes fist]


We did actually pour old oil on the dirt road to keep the dust down, at my pop-pops farm

Got 1” clear tube from local home store. Put a schedule 80 ball valve on one end. Close the ball valve and stick a plastic cap in the other end, then coil up and put in a drawstring trash bag between uses to keep clean and dust free. To use, remove the plug from the open end, check that the valve is closed, then pour gas into the open end filling the hose. Stick the open end in whatever you want to siphon from, put the valve over the opening of whatever you want to siphon into, and open the valve. If you are siphoning into multiple cans, no problem. Just close the valve when one can gets close to full, move the valve over to an empty can, open it back up and rock on. ETA: Of course siphon source has to be below siphon destination, but you knew that.

Sure, a good, electric, rated for gasoline, transfer pump is easier, but where’s the fun in that?

Fuel tanks are best stored full.

Fill as high as possible with stabilized, non-ethanol fuel.

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Originally posted by AKSuperDually:
Fuel tanks are best stored full.

Fill as high as possible with stabilized, non-ethanol fuel.

Yup, full to avoid condensation.

here in New Hampshire, the only non-ethanol gas I can find is at the "equipment repair" shop. It's sold in gallon cans and cost about $19/gal. My generator fills at 16 gals. Yikes!

I use ethanol high-octane/Stabil and run the generator for about an hour monthly!

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Of course siphon source has to be below siphon destination, but you knew that.

ummm....
given this is a different set up than my old Uncle Bill's siphon off the canal on the other side of his corn patch, I'm not clear on the actual mechanics of the slosig procedure.

His rigging required running out of the canal, up & over the gravel trail on top of the levee, and down into the corn patch well below the intake.

Will have to study this a bit. Thank for a recreational choice.

Did manage to get to the Harbor Freight today & came home with a prefab set up. Will see tomorrow. Thanks one and all for the scenarios.

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Originally posted by lizardman_u:
I bought an electric fuel pump, some wire and alligator clamps, rubber fuel line, and fuel filters so I could syphon 100 octane avgas from 55 gallon drums directly into my vehicles.

This served me well for removing fuel from small fuel tanks as well.

Total cost was about 60.00.

Did the same setup to drain fuel out of my 50 gal under floor boat tank. Found it useful for smaller jobs as well.

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Originally posted by signewt:

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Of course siphon source has to be below siphon destination, but you knew that.

ummm....
given this is a different set up than my old Uncle Bill's siphon off the canal on the other side of his corn patch, I'm not clear on the actual mechanics of the slosig procedure.

His rigging required running out of the canal, up & over the gravel trail on top of the levee, and down into the corn patch well below the intake.

Will have to study this a bit. Thank for a recreational choice.

Did manage to get to the Harbor Freight today & came home with a prefab set up. Will see tomorrow. Thanks one and all for the scenarios.

I think he got that backwards. Destination must be below source. You cannot siphon uphill.