Getting ready to drain my fuel tank!

[Lwarden]

I'm at the point where I need to pull my 62 gal fuel tank thats full of fuel. I have a hand pump and a small electric pump that I bought to drain my oil in the engine. Is there anything I need to be careful of when syphoning this fuel out? Static electricity maybe? The hand pump is manual push pull all plastic, the oil pump is electric.

 

[jigngrub]

Re: Getting ready to drain my fuel tank!

The hand pump will work, but will take a while, I probably use the same one to siphon gas out of my boat for my lawn equipment. Keeps the gas from getting old in the tank should I not use the boat for a while.

The biggest saftey concern I can think of is proper storage for the fuel once you get it out of the boat.

 

[Lwarden]

Re: Getting ready to drain my fuel tank!

The hand pump will work, but will take a while, I probably use the same one to siphon gas out of my boat for my lawn equipment. Keeps the gas from getting old in the tank should I not use the boat for a while.

The biggest saftey concern I can think of is proper storage for the fuel once you get it out of the boat.

We divied it up between vehicles!