Siphoning Petrol from Hyundai i10?

JohnSwift10

How do you siphon petrol from a Hyundai i10 when it has an anti siphon in the fuel filler funnel?

QrizB

Personally I'd disconnect the fuel line under the bonnet then let the in-tank fuel pump do the hard work.

Iceweasel

Why do you want to do this?

JohnSwift10

Iceweasel said:

Why do you want to do this?

I needed petrol for my lawnmower and couldn't be bothered to go to the garage.

I used to do it all the time when I had an other car.

clive0510

In your own interest and those around you, do not try to do this. get yourself a petrol can and go to the garage and get some petrol. 

Lorian

Your mower may prefer E5 anyway.

Grey_Critic

They used to use a windscreen washer motor some washer pipe and a couple of bulldog clips to the battery on the docks 

facade

You have to use a very thin tube, which takes ages. 

Don't mess with the fuel system you have to play with the fuses to get the pump to run and disturbing the connections probably won't end well.

But as Lorian says, if you are using e10 in the car, you don't want it in the mower, unless you run the tank and the carburettor absolutely bone dry.

You can pick up one of those plastic fuel cans cheaply if you don't have one, then get a few litres of e5 for the mower. Any left over when you put the mower away and drain the fuel can go into the car. 

CliveOfIndia

JohnSwift10 said:

Iceweasel said:

Why do you want to do this?

I needed petrol for my lawnmower and couldn't be bothered to go to the garage.

I used to do it all the time when I had an other car.

To be honest, with more modern cars, the risk of causing damage would, to my mind, far outweigh the inconvenience of having to go to the garage.

Mildly_Miffed

Lorian said:

Your mower may prefer E5 anyway.

facade said:

But as Lorian says, if you are using e10 in the car, you don't want it in the mower, unless you run the tank and the carburettor absolutely bone dry.

This kind of luddism is just ill-informed silliness.

E10 has been the default in the US for decades. Briggs and Stratton engines are, of course, a US company.
E10 has been the most widespread petrol across other European countries for a decade and a half. It's all that's available in several countries.

E10 does not cause problems.

There are still people bemoaning E5, which has been the default in the UK since the introduction of unleaded over a third of a century ago... These people clearly forget or don't realise that Cleveland Discol was a widely sold "performance" petrol from the 1930s to the 1960s, and was around E30...

JohnSwift10

My mower has successfully run on Tesco's unleaded petrol for years, usually I have petrol but this day I had non and couldn't be bothered to go to the garage so I pulled out my old siphoning kit and put the tube down the filler neck but it wouldn't go far enough to siphon petrol.

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