Draining gas?

[bones774]

Re: Draining gas?

Those could be acts of god or simply accidents, not quite the same as introducing an ignition source to a fuel source. Just throwing it out there so people have a little cautionary note. I doubt that the lightning strike analogy would go very far with the claims adjuster when he showed up at the burnt down service station. When you run those little cheese box motors you can see the sparking between the brushes and commutators.

I have no idea what you're trying to argue. The suggestion was made to use and automotive fuel pump. A pump made specifically for the purpose of pumping fuel. Not like the suggestion was a friggin' shop-vac! ?[/QUOTE]

OK, I'm sorry.

 

[bones774]

Re: Draining gas?

When I was an auto mechanic we would sometimes get vehicles in with water in the tank. We used a universal electric fuel pump to get as much gas out of the tank as we could before pulling it to clean completely. Pumped that into a 55 gal drum and let it set for a day. using a paste like Alan_Scott posted, we could tell how much water was inthe drum after it settled. We then set the depth of a pickup tube to be safely above the water and pumped as much gas back into the car as we could. Saved the customer from having to replace any more than necessary. Also added a bottle of fuel dryer to the first tank of gas.

Those seem like good ideas, looks like a plan.
Thanks