You are the 1st person to ask me that in 15 years on this channel. When i was looking for a name for my channel, i happened upon a picture of my Daughter's kindergarten graduation picture. My younger Son was standing beside Her in front of a brick wall. She was 3 bricks higher than Him. When i make a video i always think about them and if what i am putting out to the world would be something appropriate and not something shameful. Thanks for asking 🙂
@@3BricksHigher It's interesting that he's the first person to ask. This is my first time seeing your channel and I was coming to ask what your name meant. LOL By the way, I generally REALLY dislike videos that say "you've never seen this before" because I have seen a LOT of things in my 6.6 decades on this big rock but I have never seen this method of siphoning... sooooo.... thanks!
You are correct sir - and what a dumb tragedy that is - however, there are a lot of other reasons and situations that call for siphoning - and other liquids besides gasoline @@Bob10009
Works great on older vehicles like the one you are demonstrating of course, but most modern cars and trucks have anti-siphon screens and rollover valves deep in the filler tube that prevent your step 1- "lower the tube to the bottom of the tank..." .
Not to mention that he is using a vehicle that doesn't even have an unleaded fuel nozzle reducer. This vehicle also has a vertical gas tank behind the drivers seat, that fuel level is 3 and 1/2 to 4 feet off of the ground. Due to the way the tank is situated, the fuel level in that tank can be up to 2 FEET deep. Absolutely NONE of this applies to a modern vehicle, and the liar making the video knows it, that is the reason he is using an old truck to demonstrate on in the first place. Let's face it fellas, you can do whatever you want with your fingers or thumb, put it in shallow, push it in deep, put your thumb over the end of it, stick another hose next to it, wrap a rag around it, blow into it or any of that other foolishness, NOTHING works as good as a set of lips and some good strong suction. Don't wanna get a mouthful? Practice, practice, practice till you are good enough to get your face out of the way in time. If you don't mind the taste, practice anyway. And as us older viewers already know, it was a hell of a lot easier to do 40 or 50 years ago, and the flow was MUCH stronger than today.
I like your system for siphoning gas! I’ve never seen that done before. My dad was an expert when it came to pumping water. He earned two U.S. patents for his Jet drives. He was a well driller and pump installer by profession. He kept a 55 gallon drum gas can in his pickup to power his well drilling rig. When he needed to siphon gas he would lower a garden hose into the drum. He would move the hose upward about a foot with his thumb over the end. Then he would release his thumb and very quickly move the hose downward. When the hose struck the bottom he would cover the opening with his thumb and repeat the process until the hose was full and would siphon on its own. Not only will this start a siphon but the pumping action can shoot a liquid at least 10 feet! I worked for a farmer that I didn’t like. He was trying to siphon gas with his mouth. I said, “Let me do that Al! Stand back!” He was about 6 feet away and I blasted him in the face with a stream of gasoline. 🤗It was great! “Oh sorry Al! I told you to stand back!” The only people that I’ve seen use this technique are my dad and my brothers. My dad was a smart man!
It sounds like he is a smart man. I'm gonna have to try his technique. It sounds pretty cool 🙂 Hey thanks for sharing. Whoever reads your post will appreciate it too! 👍
Mate i've been playing with syphons all my life as long as i can remember and have never come across those two bloody brilliant ways to syphon without as you said, "getting a mouthfull of petrol".. Thanks for that video, being a farmer with lots of machinery I do still use the syphon from time to time, and i am very thankfull for your ideas..
During the 1972 oil crisis everyone was siphoning gas. I made myself a 2 tube siphon using a cut-off from a pinboard covered with a quarter inch of cork. I was a student driving a VW Beatle when I came across a farmer in a pick-up that ran out of gas about 5 miles from the nearest pump. He flaged me down and explained that he had run out of gas and enquired if I had a spare can of gas. I said no, but I have a hose and could siphon some from my car to his pick-up. He smiled and said, "without a can". I said, "yes, without a can". He got a smile, while eyeing the pick-up gas cap about two feet higher than that of the Beatle, "do you know how siphoning work?" I got my contraption out and transfered about half a gallon siphoning "upwards". We both left smiling and happy. We could still make the pump that closed at 6pm as a gas saving measure during that stage of the oil crisis.
@@gerhardvandenberg7249 Great story! My dad was a VW mechanic and I remember his first Beetle was a '56 rebuild he called Betsy. But you drove a "Beatle" - was it by any chance named John, Paul, George or Ringo? 😁😉😊
Forty years ago, I had a friend in Florida that had a Chevelle with a 350 / 375 horsepower engine. (Important later.) He worked for a paving company and had the keys to the yard where they parked the trucks at night. On weekends, he'd get blackout drunk and go cruising. At the end of the night, he'd go back to the yard to an old gas powered dump truck, take his "Georgia gasoline credit card", (6 feet of water hose), and fill his car. One night, not paying attention, he pulled up to a diesel truck and pumped 15 gallons of diesel fuel into his tank. When he got done, he started the car and the gas in his carburetor and gas line got him as far as the gate. As soon as that diesel fuel hit the carb, that's where the car landed and stayed until the tow truck got there. He had to drain the tank, flush out the fuel system and change the sparkplugs as they were all gummed up too.
As a 16 year old in 73, me and my buddies sure could have used this during the oil crisis. My 429 SCJ Mustang got 6 miles to the gallon with that 850 double pumper. But now I know! Thanks!
The way I've always done it is similar to the first method, but even works on tanks nearly empty. The trick is to use a hose 3 feet longer then normal. Insert that extra hose into the tank, WITHOUTH thumbing the end, so the slack fills up with gas. Then thumb the end, and start pulling the line out of the tank. Once enough is out of the tank that you can start the siphon, release the thumb. Its a little tricky with an unfamilar tank, but better then using your mouth.
See, it's the little things like this that I love to randomly find, and turns to be great knowledge that'll make me look like a genius if I ever need to siphon fuel in front of others. Thankyou for sharing this.
He is using a vehicle that doesn't even have an unleaded fuel nozzle reducer. This vehicle also has a vertical gas tank behind the drivers seat, that fuel level is 3 and 1/2 to 4 feet off of the ground. Due to the way the tank is situated, the fuel level in that tank can be up to 2 FEET deep. Absolutely NONE of this applies to a modern vehicle, and the liar making the video knows it, that is the reason he is using an old truck to demonstrate on in the first place. Let's face it fellas, you can do whatever you want with your fingers or thumb, put it in shallow, push it in deep, put your thumb over the end of it, stick another hose next to it, wrap a rag around it, blow into it or any of that other foolishness, NOTHING works as good as a set of lips and some good strong suction. Don't wanna get a mouthful? Practice, practice, practice till you are good enough to get your face out of the way in time. If you don't mind the taste, practice anyway. And as us older viewers already know, it was a hell of a lot easier to do 40 or 50 years ago, and the flow was MUCH stronger than today.
Trick number 3. Use two different size hoses. One short, one long. Kind of like trick 2. One must slip into the other pretty snuggly. Slip one into the other. Insert the long hose into the tank like trick one. Lower the end of the hose below the tank. Put your finger on the end of the hose and pull the short hose off of the long hose. The vacuum created when pulling the hose will suck the fuel up and over the bend. Just don't make the short hose too short. It should be about as long as the distance from the bottom of the tank to the filler spout, give or take a few inches. Works no matter what the fuel level is unless it is nearly empty. In which case it won't siphon anyway.
Clear plastic hose, even if you had to suck on it,why would you get gasoline in your mouth,if you were at all careful?? Not like using green garden hose,da!
You're not the only one who knows the thumb trick. Been doing that for decades. And the tank doesn't have to be 80% or more full. What matters is how low you can get your gas can relative to the height of the tank.
I learned the second trick from my father when I was 5 years old, and I used it 23 years later, hours after the 2010 Chile earthquake. My father-in-law had two Peugeot 505s, but the only one with gasoline broke down the day before. Public transportation wasn't working and that way we were able to go buy food and other things. I didn't know the first trick, I'll try it in the next earthquake.
Yes. Great video, I have done this sypthoning method by draining oil from the oil inlet of a riding lawn mower (took about 5 hrs, but had time on my side) i have also done this type of sypthoning from a 10.000 gallon water tank using a garden hose (drained a few thousand gallons just over nite// thank you again
That's pretty slick! My 40 year old invention was a 6' section of garden hose, a hollow rubber toilet float, and a 3' length of 1/2" vinyl hose. I cut two holes in the flapper, one to put the hose down the center and a smaller one slightly offset from it for the vinyl. Run the hose down into the gas tank, hold the flapper against the filler opening, and blow into the vinyl hose. It would push the gas up the larger hose and fill your jug in no time at all. Keep blowing for faster transfer. Alas, the smog cannisters lowered the efficiency of that method since then, but it still works for pre-1995 cars. (just like your rag and two hoses method.)
First tip I learned is make sure the truck ain't a diesel unless your car is. Second thing to note is most new vehicles have some kind of anti-siphoning flap or locking gas cap.
@@3BricksHigherI've used the 1st method for draining aboveground pools. It's a great way to reuse a broken garden hose. You can get more than a single siphon going at the same time. Saves a ton of money over a sump pump.
There is another simple way. Take a relatively long hose 6 ft or so. Shove as much as you can into the fuel tank, getting as much hose into the gas and filled with gas as possible. Hold your finger or thumb over the end of the hose (or kink the hose, or put a closed valve on the end. Now yank about 3-4 ft of hose out of the tank as quickly and smoothly as possible and pull it down to the ground. Release your thumb, make sure it’s flowing, and stick the end into your gas can. Simplest way ever, works with water, diesel etc.
I had a Yanmar diesel in my sailboat and the engine had a primming lever which took for ever to pump fuel. I would blow into the fuel tank and prime the engine that way. It worked great.
Wow! Thank you so much! The siphon we bought had the bulb in between the tubes and didn't work. I detached them and used your method on our motorcycle, which worked immediately. I impressed everyone.
If I have to drain a fuel tank I can't get a hose into I remove a line at the filter or at the fuel rail " schrader valve core " remove fuel pump relay and use a jumper wire to run the fuel pump .
Another thing to remember , any car with a mid mounted tank if take out the seat part of the back seat you have access to the fuel pump , in these vehicles you can change a fuel pump in about 1/2 hour and it makes it easy to do diagnostic .
Right, I believe that new cars have a screen in place, or some other mechanism that defeats the siphoning process. Very frustrating. I was hoping this video would address that when I clicked on it. Is there a way around it? Tip the vehicle up-side-down? ;-)
I was basically using that first method 50 years ago. Nobody had to tell me how to do it. It just seemed obvious. The only difference is I used a longer hose and shoved in in so it would fill with gas, then I put my thumb over the tip of the hose and drew out about half, which is now filled with gas, then released my thumb with the nearly gas-filled portion of the hose lower than the tank.
I have used that but if the tank is low put the hose in as far as you can put your thump over the end and pull it out and release thumb . Do it quickly in and pull out do it quickly using your thumb like a check valve . When gas comes out lower the hose and it will run on gravity .
Thanks for that video. I've been doing something similar by inserting the hose, then, thumb on the discharge end, moving the hose up and down rapidly about 6 inches at a time while closing and opening the discharge end with the thumb to simulate a check valve. But you have to get the timing just right. Your method is foolproof.
Yes , that's pretty good . I do think it's safe enough though when you have a few metres of hose because you have time to act when you see it coming . For the inertia method you probably need ½ inch or more cos the thinner sizes would likely have too much resistance , maybe.
Brilliant - great video! Minor correction: momentum is what carries it through the hose - inertia is the resistance to change in motion (what the gas has at the beginning and which is overcome by the change in pressure, which then builds momentum, which then makes it self-siphon).
Physics PhD candidate here: it’s inertia either way. Momentum is just speed times mass or inertia. Force is the rate at which momentum changes, so if you have a lot of momentum, it does take longer for it to be brought to zero by the same force. But inertia is the resistance to acceleration, regardless of whether you’re moving or not. So he is correct in saying inertia
Someone correct me I'm wrong but don't most modern cars have a blocker of sorts a little bit down in the hole to prevent you from putting a hose into the tank?
All modern vehicles have a check valve in the fuel neck. You can push past it, but you will need a very small hose like the hose’s on the hand pump siphons you buy at the auto parts stores. On most modern vehicles it’s probably best to go in thru the EVAP line or the section between the fuel filler neck and the fuel tank. I had a 1998 Monte Carlo and the factory service manual instructed going thru the evap line to the tank. I did that job in June of this year. On my minivan I go thru the section after the filler neck.
A skill i will never forget.... Thanks for the education. Now i know and i will spread the teaching. I will give you credit but i will look fancy for a bit.
I've been doing something quite similar to the blowing into the tank, but your way works better. I used to put the hose in and put a rag around the hose, to make it airtight. I would then blow into the hose, and hold my thumb over the end of the hose until I took another breath, building up pressure in the tank with each breath. After a few times doing this, the pressure would build in the tank enough to push the gas through the hose. Sometimes it didn't work and sometimes I'd get a taste of gas,, but usually it would work just fine. Thanks for the tip, it's 2 hoses if I ever need to siphon gas again.
@@3BricksHigher btw I am a maintenance supervisor (not some who steals gas haha) so it comes up a few times a year we need to syphon something. Tastes horrible. I cannot wait till next time to show the boys this. But also to avoid an hour or more of gas taste. This really helped me be more professional so thanks again to you and your kin for sharing!
@@3BricksHigher my thoughts exactly! 👍 Also we get old compressor generators sometimes or the old work trucks thenneedngasnchanged out sometimes. But most mowers and stuff. I can stop carrying toothpaste hahha
