Ok, so it's just a precaution at this stage, we'll need it more when the body work starts and we sand and grind off the rusted out spots. The thought of open containers of gasoline, possible spills, and doing this in the garage with a car we can't just push out into the driveway if things get out of control.... Yep, we got a 5lb. Pro Grade model.
Ok, so onto the real project. Siphon out the old gas from the gas tank. We set up the first 5 gallon can and set up the siphon pump. We got two models, a $4 hand pump, and a $0.67 model we planned to use in case the hose was too short.
We thread the long hose into the bottom of the gas tank, and a few squeezes of the hand pump got the gas flowing into our stale tanks. We then waited and closely watched for 30 minutes while the bad gas drained into the gas can. A few seconds later, we started on the second 5 gallon can, which took another 30 minutes to fill. Then we started the last remaining gas can, a 2 gallon backup. A few minutes later, we're all done.
We can drop the stale gas off at the hazardous waste day at the dump, and then fill up our gas cans with some good stuff to get the engine running.
The next step will be to remove the small rubber adapter hose between the gas tank and the metal gas line up to the engine. We'll use this to get a replacement section of hose, and a bit extra so we can replace the other jumper connections.
