What's the best way to drain the gas tank?

[Buck69]

You mean you don't have to get gasoline in your mouth? Awesome!

Joking aside I usually just use a small clear hose like a straw and then stop when I see it flowing. It will do the job to get the gas moving. I just need a way to get the tube into the tank.

They actually work really good. I have over 20 5 gal containers I grabbed from a car wash that their detergents come in. 2 will nest perfectly in the large rubbermaid totes. The totes give them extra containment for safety and allow them to be stacked real nice. We use them for extra fuel on extended trips in the boats and trucks. Those little syphon hoses give a quick clean transfer to the main tanks and ya, there is no gas in the mouth or even drips on the ground.
I removed 2/3's of a tank of 16 year old diesel from the saddle tank in the CUCV I just grabbed last weekend with one. Pretty easy as mentioned in my last post accessed through the wheel well.

 

[sgrinavi]

I have an electric pump, I just by-pass the oil pressure safety switch, disconnect a hose at the carb or filter and pump it out.

 

[TFerguson]

I can attest to the "screen" (or whatever it is) blocking siphon tube access via the filler neck. I ran into the same hurdle when trying to drain the tank on my '90. Tried several hoses, but they were all denied access. Maybe it's just a TBI feature? But I assumed the same: anti-gas theft and/or possibly also a kind of "pre-filter" in case there's leaves or small bones in your gas can..? Anyway, I just disco'ed the fuel line before the filter, aimed it at a bucket, and connected the fuel pump relay to the battery. Of course, if your pump's fully dead that won't do you much good.

 

[Nuckollsr]

Yeah, external fuel pump with outlet hose long enough to drop into gas tank on my other car. Works good, doesn't spill a drop. Used it on my '87 twice.

 

[gogo14910]

I used a transmission jack to drop my full fuel tank then just dumped fuel on the bonfire pile.

 

[Craig Nedrow]

I must be missing something. This has two tanks, and a switching valve. If that is right,, you can go underneath and pull the line that connects to the valve from the bad tank, and run it into a container to drain it. . I was way up in the hills this last winter, and ran out of gas in the tank I use. Went under and switched the hoses, cranked to get the fuel to the carb, and made it home. Gas was three years old.

 

[Blue Ox]

It is a good point. I have an 87 tank but the older fuel Neck.
I’d be tempted to remove the hose clamp from the rubber fuel neck in top of the tank. Lift t it off and slid the hose in through the top of the tank if your neck somehow has a screen in it.

As long as we're still discussing this, this is what I did on my '85. It's about impossible to get a hose past the bend in the filler. I popped the filler hose off and put a pump suction hose in the tank filler port. You could also use a jiggle hose or the potential "hint of gasoline flavor" siphoning method. Got an inspection camera in there too, trying to figure out why I couldn't draw from that tank.

 

[WP29P4A]

If I remember correctly, in the late 70's when the oil embargoes happened and gas prices went crazy, siphoning/stealing gas became a big deal. The manufacturers of vehicles put a simple coiled spring into the bottom of the filler tube, making it real hard to get a hose down past it.

 

[82sbshortbed]

Just mash the skinny pedal to the floor?

 

[Radiohead]

If I remember correctly, in the late 70's when the oil embargoes happened and gas prices went crazy, siphoning/stealing gas became a big deal. The manufacturers of vehicles put a simple coiled spring into the bottom of the filler tube, making it real hard to get a hose down past it.

You remember correctly.
I distinctly remember the hint of gasoline flavor, mixed with beer breath trying to get home late, late at night. And that was under a dollar a gallon then - way under.

 

[Scott91370]

Drill a hole in the bottom?

 

[RanchWelder]

You can ingest three our four ounces of fuel before it makes you puke... man up and do it old school.
It burns your eyes when it come back up through your sinuses though...

 

[Grit dog]

Just mash the skinny pedal to the floor?

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[Radiohead]

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The best way to drain the gas tank. You know, the original point of the thread.

I was going to put up a burnout gif, but it would be redundant.

 

[Grit dog]

The best way to drain the gas tank. You know, the original point of the thread.

I was going to put up a burnout gif, but it would be redundant.

So neither of you read the OPs initial post?