The days of midnight gas runs are just about over with....the anti slosh,
environmental and baffles just about eliminate the opportunity to get the
siphon hoses to work. Oh for the good old days. Guess you will have to buy
a new bigger fuel can and fill it at the local gas pump. Damn, will have to
pay for it too.
Muff


"jay1000" wrote in message
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I've got a 2 KW Honda generator. Figured on using gasoline from my two
cars
if we ever had to run the generator for a long period of time. So I
bought
a hand-pump primed gasoline syphon (hate the taste of gasoline) and tested
it by syphoning from a gas can to the Honda gas tank. Then I tried to
syphon out of the car gas tank to the gasoline can and it doesn't work.
The
only reason I can think of is the end of the hose is not in the gasoline
pool in the car's gasoline tank. The plasic hose tends to curl so that
might be the problem. Or there can be some sort of baffle in the tanks to
prevent syphoning. One car is a 98 Cutlass and the other is a 2000
Subaru.

Any thoughts on "how to syphon gasoline from a car"?