My Skipjack is leaking gasoline into the hull/bilge. I can smell it and I can see it. There's quite a bit of it. I need to get all of it out obviously.
I bought an electric fuel pump, ran LOOOOOOOOOOOOONG electrical wires to a battery WAY up high on the roof of my house ( I'm overly cautious and there's a lot of fumes). The fuel line on the fuel pump is a little smaller in diameter than the line coming from the tank. The line coming from the tank is larger and doesn't make a great seal around this el cheapo fuel filter that I bought. I tried zip tying it to get a better seal, but it's really just no good.
I was going to run to the autoparts store after dinner, but I just had a thought and I was hoping someone here could help.
This entire idea of using an electric pump is just flat out dangerous I'm feeling in my situation. There's a lot of gas....I don't know if I've said that, lol. Can I just use a fuel line setup for an outboard and just pump it out manually into containers? Seems a WHOLE lot safer and I'm not really seeing why it wouldn't work. I was even thinking of finding the drain plug on this boat, running the fuel line up through the bilge and pumping it that way as it I was thinking it would work like a siphone if it was well below the tank right?
Am I crazy or should this work? I'd rather run to walmart and grab that rig and not feel at risk of fire or explosion.
I bought an electric fuel pump, ran LOOOOOOOOOOOOONG electrical wires to a battery WAY up high on the roof of my house ( I'm overly cautious and there's a lot of fumes). The fuel line on the fuel pump is a little smaller in diameter than the line coming from the tank. The line coming from the tank is larger and doesn't make a great seal around this el cheapo fuel filter that I bought. I tried zip tying it to get a better seal, but it's really just no good.
I was going to run to the autoparts store after dinner, but I just had a thought and I was hoping someone here could help.
This entire idea of using an electric pump is just flat out dangerous I'm feeling in my situation. There's a lot of gas....I don't know if I've said that, lol. Can I just use a fuel line setup for an outboard and just pump it out manually into containers? Seems a WHOLE lot safer and I'm not really seeing why it wouldn't work. I was even thinking of finding the drain plug on this boat, running the fuel line up through the bilge and pumping it that way as it I was thinking it would work like a siphone if it was well below the tank right?
Am I crazy or should this work? I'd rather run to walmart and grab that rig and not feel at risk of fire or explosion.