"Harry K" wrote in message
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On Jan 26, 4:00 am, "Existential Angst" wrote:
Awl --

So ahm DoomsDay Prepping over here, altho I did blow my N'Yawk chance for
an
array of assault weapons.... sigh
Proly just as well, as I'm too cheap to pay bux for that kind of ammo.....
I'd proly get $-per-bullet chest pains at target practice.... lol....

Plus, with the 500 gals of gasoline I plan on storing, I figger there's
more
than enough gas there for a ****load of molotov cocktails, which should
keep
the marauding cocksuckers at bay for a while.....

But since the consensus seems to be that gas does indeed go bad after a
year
or so, I figgered instead of mule-ing boucou gas cans to and fro (Sandy,
boyzngerlz?), if I could tap into the fuel line and jump the fuel pump, I
could use the vehicle itself as a "transfer station" -- more specifically,
to take fresh gas from the vehicle's tank, and deposit it into my 500 gal
stash.
Then, to fill up the vehicle from my stash (for recycling, shortage,
whatever), I'd just use a gas-friendly electric xsfer pump attached to the
storage container.

So basically, the Q is:
How practical is using the vehicle's fuel pump as a transfer pump? Even
for, say, giving a stranded motorist a cupla gallons, without having to
lug
a gas can around?

Some of the rationale for the Q is that it's hard to drop a tube via the
gas
fill on a vehicle, as they seem to have the fill tube set up to block
siphoning. If there were a straightforward way to drop a tube into the gas
tank, I could use the external transfer pump both ways, and not bother
with
the fuel pump.

I was also looking at just putting a spigot underneath, on the gas tank
itself, that I could quick-connect a pump to.
Dat seems to be a bit of work, tho, and perhaps dicey work at that, ergo
my
fuel pump idear, but mebbe there's a neat way to do a spigot.....
Just have to make sure my entreepreeneering neighborhood homeys don't find
out about sed spigot....

Idears? Opinions?
Inyone else prepping?? lol
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EA

How practical? Not at all, a vehicle fuel pump is a low volume pump,
it would take
you forever to transfer any appreciable amount.
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Well, from the earlier links I provided, 130+ gph pumps are readily
available -- poss. more, if that rating is at some back pressure.

For the benefit of the arithmetically challenged (like, well, George,
JoeBro, and dey ignerint ilk), that's, uh, lessee....
130 gph, times 1/60 hr/min (which, george, joebro, is the recipycal of 60
min/hr), lessee, cancel out the hours, divide..... hmmmm, dats 2+
gal/min..... not quite a torrential flow, but adequate.

But, having talked to a guy at a local autoparts store (where I picked up
the 25 ft flex exhaust extension for le genset), he said unless you have a
car model with an access panel on the gas tank itself, like some Honders,
the project is problematic from the gitgo. It's def'ly do-able, but at what
time/effort/expense.

As per Vic, I'll see about dropping a tube thru the gas fill, see how that
turns out. Mebbe my mechanic can remove some baffling, make it easier.
We'll see.

I hope 500 gals of gas is enough.... mebbe I'll wall it all in with about
75 truck batteries, solar-charging.....
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EA





Harry K