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Syphoning a petrol tank - Skoda Fabia (not Marlin)
Hi Guys
This may seem a strange place to write about my wife's Skoda Fabia, but bear with me there is a relevance. In a few days we are part exchanging her Fabia for a new model, and SOD's Law gets in the way as the car has a nearly full petrol tank. Of course, I cannot expect the dealer to compensate us for this occurrence. So I set about trying to syphon out about 7 gallons of this expensive fluid with a syphon pump. No joy! Only about 3 feet of the syphon tubing goes down the tank, and stops, but it cannot reach into any petrol.
Question: Is it likely that Skoda have built in an anti-syphon mesh or other obstruction? This is were the Marlin connection comes in - the syphon works a treat in my Hunter tank!
My other possible option might be to suck out the petrol at the engine end of the plumbing, but If I start disconnecting tubing I might get myself into more trouble than it is worth. Anybody ideas on this?
Cheers
Mike
This may seem a strange place to write about my wife's Skoda Fabia, but bear with me there is a relevance. In a few days we are part exchanging her Fabia for a new model, and SOD's Law gets in the way as the car has a nearly full petrol tank. Of course, I cannot expect the dealer to compensate us for this occurrence. So I set about trying to syphon out about 7 gallons of this expensive fluid with a syphon pump. No joy! Only about 3 feet of the syphon tubing goes down the tank, and stops, but it cannot reach into any petrol.
Question: Is it likely that Skoda have built in an anti-syphon mesh or other obstruction? This is were the Marlin connection comes in - the syphon works a treat in my Hunter tank!
My other possible option might be to suck out the petrol at the engine end of the plumbing, but If I start disconnecting tubing I might get myself into more trouble than it is worth. Anybody ideas on this?
Cheers
Mike
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