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Hi everyone

Just a quick question is it possible to syphon fuel from a 406 hdi 110 easily? My 406 will be laid up for a while. Thinking that having less fuel in the tank will help when i do the roll bar bushes tommorow if i have to drop the tank. Have a fair bit of fuel in the 406 and was thinking of siphoning most of it off to use in my other car 106 diesel.

I've got one of those cheap syphons you can buy with a hand pump ,the bit of tube that goes into the fuel tank is only about 400mm long so i'm thinking i might have to add a bit of extra pipe to it. Anyone done this before?

Thanks

you could remove the in tank pump under the rear seat and drain it from there? thats where i have drained them from.

Or use the lift pump to empty the tank by sticking 12 volts across it (no I don't know which terminal's which )

Only remove the fuel pump if it is knackered because it is such a pig to refit you will soon be wondering why you where worrying about the fuel in the tank in the firsrt place!! Been there done that.

I had no problems refitting the intank pump on my hdi, t'was a doddle, and it was minus bloody 5 outside when i did it.


DiscoPol

That's obviously cos yours shrunk.

swiss wrote:Drill pump

Nifty idea those, I've not seen them before!

i find 2 bits of pipe and a cloth works fine for me

i got a drill pump from the pound shop cost me a ...........a pound and does the job fine.

on the subject. i removed a 99/2000 white pump last week .........no problem
when i did a 2003 pump orange it was too big for the hole .......... i chisseled the hole bigger !

alladdin wrote:on the subject. i removed a 99/2000 white pump last week .........no problem
when i did a 2003 pump orange it was too big for the hole .......... i chisseled the hole bigger !

thats how i did mine mine was the biege/orange coloured pump

As far as I know there's an anti-syphoning flap thing at the bottom of the filler neck to prevent a hose being pushed down into the tank.

My neighbours 206 diesel van was written off with a full tank and we could not get a tube down into the fuel.