did you try spinning the hose as you put it donw into the tank? like you
would a plumbing snake ,I hate going to fill the gas can so when I know it
needs filling I fill up the car on the way home ,this way I know I'm getting
to the gas and the hose I use is only like 1/4" and kind of ridged I have to
twist it in ect. an it takes a little while to get 5gals.but it has always
worked and works with my 2001 tacoma,I seem to have more trouble getting the
hose out of the tank than getting it to syphon.
"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"?