Re: need to drain gas in mckeecraft, help
for all the B.S., and maybe the responses this will get, I'll tell you what I do, because it works best by far.<br /><br />Go to a hardware store and buy a pump that is for connecting to a ordinary drill. Use it with a ->CORDLESS<- drill, and use it like the directions say and be sure to prime the pump. If you're really scared of the drill somehow igniting the fumes, use a hose from the discharge of the pump about 25' or so to whatever container you're pumping it into. Probably all modern cordless drills are constructed so that they have no arcing brushes open to the air. <br /><br />Some mechanics use an ordinary, inline style, electric fuel pump that is used in cars, and is available from auto parts stores. Get one of those, and use it in place of the mechanical one on your engine, and then you can use it when you winterize your boat, or any time you need to drain the fuel. -I'm assuming you've got an inboard or inboard/outboard-<br /><br />Another way that'll work possibly the quickest, is siphoning tho - if it's up on a trailer, and if you've got a lot of fuel to drain. <br /><br />Take a hose and fill it with gasoline by using a small funnel, or slowly submerging it in a container of fuel starting from one end and working your way slowly to the other, then blocking/plugging one end and pushing the other end down into the bottom of the fuel tank. As long as the "low end" of the hose is longer than the "high end" it won't matter if some of the fuel comes out of the high end as you are pushing it down into the bottom of the tank.<br /><br />I've had no luck at all with the "squeeze bulb" type.
