drain fuel tank

[carlos-1975]

ok i almost killed myself today trying to drain the fuel tank in the car i have broke and that sucking it up a pipe aint good let me tell you is there another way i could do it i know i sound like a pikey but its a full tank got to be worth £50 lol

[scott.mohekey]

You can get hand pumps for cheap that have a hose going down into the fuel tank.

[peter thomson]

Just power the fuel pump to pump it out

[carlos-1975]

what pipe will it come out of and which pins on the connector do i use :-)

[scott.mohekey]

Of course! I was thinking of a non wrecking car.

I think you can either tap into the line just after the tank, or somewhere in the engine bay. If in the engine bay, its the one that was NOT connected to the fuel pressure regulator. If you tap in under the car, i wouldn't think it would matter which you use, as long as you do both, and don't submerge them in the bucket/what have you.

[peter thomson]

Have a look at this article Carl

http://www.clubvr4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=27582

[Eurospec]

Ive done it before now with the fuel pump. It takes an age. Not worth the agro!

Get a cheapy hand pump, and take the fuel pump out, then dump in the hand pump and off you go.

Takes about a couple of mins to get 25 litres out.

Cheers,

Ben.

[Turbo_Steve]

Ben - Carlos's time isn't charged by the hour, though


I've used the fuel pump lots of times (including on the car) and as long as you don't mind chilling out (no smoking!) next to it for 20-30mins or so, it's cool. Get your lad to hook it up, check it all, and then spend some quality time whilst it's doing it.

Best way seems to be to run it off some long cable to another car with the engine running, as the fuel pumps seem to work a LOT faster at 14v than they do at 12!

[Wodjno]

If u don't need the tank ?

Just drill a hole in the bottom..

[dreamer]

If u don't need the tank ?

Just drill a hole in the bottom..

seems so logical... now!

[Turbo_Steve]

But then you've got to filter all the metal bits out of the fuel!

[Wodjno]

But then you've got to filter all the metal bits out of the fuel!

Well that can't be difficult to strain it as it leaves the tank

Seems fairly logical

[wintertidenz]

Don't you get the risk of sparks as you drill a hole in the tank?

[dreamer]

Don't you get the risk of sparks as you drill a hole in the tank?

I think if you go slowly with a hand drill it maybe ok (?)

[zedy1]

Don't you get the risk of sparks as you drill a hole in the tank?

No cus the tanks plastic

[GalantOnly]

On Galants Turbodiesel there's a simple drain plug... Wonder why they refuse to put it on gasoline

[HPRULZ]

as you have broken the car why not use the washer pump?
or go to the local pet store and they do a manual syphon thats cheap for draining out fish tanks and the flow rate on that is massive.
Kev

[Barney]

A Polish Engineer told me once that the way he drained his petrol tankquickly (to rejoin the queue at the station on the day the station had fuel) was to seperate the fuel line and lead it into a jerry can and then pressurise the ulage (air) space of the tank using an old fashioned vacuum cleaner in reverse mode with the hose placed into the filler cap sealed with a rag.

Didn't quite work as planned however, as whilst he was at the station his mother reversed the fittings to use the cleaner for sucking not blowing. When he returned he didn't notice the change in setup and rushed to pressurise the tank and drain it yet again. All he suceededin doing was to suck petrol vapours into the cleaner and blow himself and the car up!

However I don't suggest you don't this, but anyway of safely pressuring the ullage space of the tank (Foot pump?) will speed draining but be very carefull not to over pressurise the tank - it only needs the equivalent of blowing into the tank a couple of psi at max.

Again - be careful