Offshoreonly.com - Easiest way to get old gas out

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Originally Posted by Sydwayz (Post 3917337)

$45 electric fuel pump rigged to an external battery on 20' long wire leads I put a toggle switch on the positive lead, and mounted it in a sealed plastic box for spark control. The toggle switch and spare battery used to power the pump sat on the floor a good 10' away from the 55 gallon drum. My boat has bullet style inline fuel filters. I pulled the line off the output barb of each fuel filter, and installed a 1' long rubber line to the fuel pump, with a 12' rubber line on the output side of the pump rigged over the side of the boat to a 55 gallon drum.

It's not the fastest, but it works perfectly. Don't stand and watch it, but you can do something else close-by and keep an eye on the fuel level in the drum before you need to switch out drums... if you have that much fuel to pump out.

I buy 55' gallon steel drums off Craigslist for $10-15 a piece; usually food drums used for pickles, lemon juice or vegetable oil.

Electric fuel pumps are best at pushing fuel, not pulling it. You may or may not have success stuffing a rubber fuel line down the fuel fill nozzle. (It may not prime, or stay primed.) There may also be a bend or a screen that may not allow your rubber line to pass.

X2 on what Brian said, I always pump mine dry by disconnecting the fuel line between the tanks and the motors and use an electric fuel pump. Now if Lake Michigan would just get a little warmer than the 38* water temperature, we could get this season started!