How do you siphon gasoline from your (garden)tools?
Remove gasoline from your garden tools
Want to remove the gasoline by siphoning the gasoline with 2 hoses and a cloth? Go through the following 7 steps:
- Step 1: make sure the engine has cooled down.
- Step 2: place the jerrycan on the floor next to the fuel cap.
- Step 3: insert the hoses into the opening.
- Step 4: close the opening.
- Step 5: blow air into the short hose.
- Step 6: remove the hoses and close the jerrycan.
- Step 7: switch on your garden tools.
Syphoning with two hoses and a rag
Steps 1 to 4
- Step 1: make sure the engine has cooled down.
- Step 2: siphoning works with gravity. Place your jerrycan next to the tank top. Make sure the hose is lower than the gasoline level in the tank.
- Step 3: push the hose to the bottom of the tank. Place the other end of the long hose in the jerrycan. Then, place the short hose next to the long one in the opening.
- Step 4: close the opening. Use an old cloth for this and ensure that no air escapes.
Steps 5 to 7
- Step 5: blow air into the short hose. Be careful not to inhale gasoline vapor. Blow until the gasoline flows into the jerrycan. Stop blowing when the gasoline is flowing, gravity will now do the rest.
- Step 6: is no more fuel coming out? Remove the hoses from the opening and close the tank. Close the jerrycan as well.
- Step 7: some gasoline remains in the engine. Move your garden tools outside and run the engine until it runs out of gasoline.
Remove gasoline with a siphon pump
A manual siphon pump is a long hose with a pump in the middle of the hose. This allows you to pump the gasoline out of the tank. Press the pump a few times. If you pump, the gasoline flows out of the tank and to the other side of the hose. Make sure you only place the hose in the tank in one way. That's because it only sucks the gasoline in on one side. If you hang it the other way around, you pump air into the gas tank.
Why drain the gasoline?
Old gasoline isn't good for garden tools. After 2 months, particles settle and the quality of the gasoline decreases. With E10 gasoline, this is after 3 weeks. That's why it's important that you don't store petrol tools in the shed with old gasoline in the winter. To remove gasoline, you'll need an old rag, a jerrycan, a short plastic hose, and a long plastic hose (2.5cm diameter) or a siphon pump.
