siphoning?
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mrflibbles

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7,774 posts

306 months

Tuesday 28th October 2003
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I'd just filled the bugger up and im damned if im going to waste £40!!!

How do i siphon the petrol out, as i have no idea, only that it has something to do with tubes!

DontLift

9,396 posts

281 months

Tuesday 28th October 2003
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fastest way is drain it from the bottom, most tanks have a drain somewhere, even if it is the fuel pipe

silverback mike

11,292 posts

276 months

Tuesday 28th October 2003
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1. Obtain Petrol can and long plastic pipe.
2. Place 1 end of pipe into fuel filler neck until it enters petrol tank. (To the bottom)
3. Place lips around other end of tube.
4. Almighty suck......noting the fact that the petrol is rising.
5. Avoid ingesting petrol - at the last moment prior to drinking the stuff, tip plastic pipe into petrol can, ensuring petrol can is lower than fuel filler neck.
6. Hey presto - siphoned petrol!!!

You may indeed drink a little of the stuff, try not to especially if you are a smoker

That method, altough crude, does tend to work.

Regards.
Mike.

pies

13,116 posts

279 months

Tuesday 28th October 2003
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If you use clear tubing you will see the fuel coming

Wacky Racer

40,623 posts

270 months

Tuesday 28th October 2003
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mrflibbles said:
Related to this:

www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=23&t=64331

I'd just filled the bugger up and im damned if im going to waste £40!!!

How do i siphon the petrol out, as i have no idea, only that it has something to do with tubes!



You will need about 10 metal containers, and a piece of preferably see through narrow hose pipe around five foot long, place one end of pipe deep into petrol tank, kneel down next to filler, so you are as low as possible, (you have to be lower than the tank level) and SUCK hard once, and just before the petrol reaches your mouth, quickly insert pipe into container number one.


(world petrol syphoning champion in my teenage years..how do you think I could afford to run a car...)

ps: This is not to be recommended to professional firebreathers!!!

docevi1

10,430 posts

271 months

Tuesday 28th October 2003
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I thought all petrol tanks had a filter / gauze in the nozzle that stoped siphoner's now-a-days? We tried it once and got no-where.

DontLift

9,396 posts

281 months

Wednesday 29th October 2003
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docevi1 said:
I thought all petrol tanks had a filter / gauze in the nozzle that stoped siphoner's now-a-days? We tried it once and got no-where.


They do, hence my earlier post

jmorgan

36,010 posts

307 months

Wednesday 29th October 2003
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Does it have an electric pump?

agent006

12,058 posts

287 months

Wednesday 29th October 2003
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AAh, just shove yer hoover in. Make sure you empty the bag first mind.

Pigeon

18,535 posts

269 months

Wednesday 29th October 2003
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DontLift said:

docevi1 said:
I thought all petrol tanks had a filter / gauze in the nozzle that stoped siphoner's now-a-days? We tried it once and got no-where.


They do, hence my earlier post


Great. Scrotes can't siphon anymore... so they'll get a hammer and screwdriver and whack a hole in the tank instead. What great mind thought that one up?

silverback mike

11,292 posts

276 months

Wednesday 29th October 2003
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docevi1 said:
I thought all petrol tanks had a filter / gauze in the nozzle that stoped siphoner's now-a-days? We tried it once and got no-where.


I guess my siphoning days are over!

Fat Audi 80

2,403 posts

274 months

Wednesday 29th October 2003
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Try and see where the pipe exits the bottom of the tank towards the fuel pump and disconnect. Place empty containers undercar and catch falling petrol.....