puckgrinder85
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Sounds like a lot of work especially when you knew the storm was on its way for at the very least a few days. If it was a survival thing I could see, but just to get fuel? Buy a few gas cans and be more prepared.
puckgrinder85 said:Sounds like a lot of work especially when you knew the storm was on its way for at the very least a few days. If it was a survival thing I could see, but just to get fuel? Buy a few gas cans and be more prepared.
But one of the problems I was having is not being able to get a tube onto the gas tank due to the roll over valve. If i could, I wouldn't need any pump at all. If I ever have the tank dropped for some reason, I might just get rid of the roll over valve.Gary Fowler said:You guys kill me with your safety police, you blast the "idiot" with the electric drill that is in open air running an electric drill that produces sparks, but have no qualms about opening a vent in a running gasoline car engine to spray or potentially spray high pressure gas into the air. (it happened to one poster per his comment) At least with their system, if a fire did start, if could be contained outside the engine compartment of the car. I am not condoning the YouTube video but I think it is far safer than opening a fuel line off the injector rail of a running engine. Even if you have proper fitting on steel lines to do it. If you wanted to get fuel out from the fuel rail, why not just turn the key to on, the fuel pump will start to run at that time, no need to set up a potential spark producer.
By the way, they do make hand crank pumps for fuel distillates that will do the same thing as the drill run pump. I think you would be OK using that type of set up especially since you may not have electrical power.
You guys kill me with your safety police, you blast the "idiot" with the electric drill that is in open air running an electric drill that produces sparks, but have no qualms about opening a vent in a running gasoline car engine to spray or potentially spray high pressure gas into the air.
Now I know why I haven't been able to syphon gas from a car in a long, long time. There's probably a whole generation of adults by now who don't even know what gasoline tastes like.