Rusty,
You've a fuel injected truck? How about a T in the fuel line/on off
valve at a convenient place and then just turn on the ignition. Fuel
pumps usually work that way. Let the car fuel pump do the work.

Marc Wiese


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rotary motors in aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net]
On
> Behalf Of Russell Duffy
> Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2004 9:49 AM
> To: Rotary motors in aircraft
> Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Fuel Transfer
>
> Remember how I was planning to stick a hose down the filler pipe to
pump
> fuel from my truck's fuel tank?  Well, it "sounded" like a good idea,
but
> it
> ain't gonna work.
>
> Yesterday, I needed just a few gallons to top off my tanks for a
weight
> and
> balance, so I tried to siphon fuel out of the truck.  The hose goes
about
> a
> foot into the filler pipe and just hits a dead end.  The truck has a
long
> filler neck, with a few bends, but I figured the small pipe I was
using
> would be able to negotiate those.  When I couldn't get the hose in, I
just
> assumed they installed some sort of anti-siphon device (course screen
of
> some kind).  After a bit of research, it seems that (some, all,
> ???)manufacturers are installing one way ball valves in the filler
pipes
> to
> keep fuel from running out of the tank in the event the vehicle flips
over
> in a crash (and presumably the gas cap fails).
>
> I'm not sure exactly what's in my filler pipe, but I'm sure I can't
get a
> hose of any reasonable size in there to transfer fuel.  I guess I'll
have
> to
> go back to the idea of having a separate tank I can put in the bed as
> needed.
>
> Cheers,
> Rusty (still working on the W&B numbers)
>
>
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