Why not just go in through the trunk, take out the lift pump and use one of those kerosene transfer pumps you can buy at the hardware store. It has a fairly long pickup tube, a squeeze bulb to get the liquid moving, and a delivery tube for putting it in the fuel tank on a kerosene heater. They even have battery powered models but I'm not sure if they are labeled to use with gasoline. You may not get all of it out of the tank but a fresh supply in addition to what little bit is left in there should be fine. Besides, if what is in the tank still smells like gasoline instead of turpentine you should be okay. You also eliminate the risk of overheating the pumps.
Once you've got the new gas in it, you might want to think about running the pump briefly with the line to the fuel distributor disconnected to get the rest of the old gas out of the system. On 28 Sep 2011, at 10:35, Chad Rebuck wrote: Would running the fuel pump be an effective way to drain the tank? I have the hose from the pump already disconnected so that is no problem. I was thinking of connecting a hose to it and routing it right to a 5 gal gas tank. My goal here is to get the old gas out and put in some fresh gas so my engine has the best chance to fire up immediately when I go to start it for the first time. _____________________________ _______________________________________________ a2-16v-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.a2-16v.com/mailman/listinfo/a2-16v-list
