Posted: 9/29/2013 7:53:04 AM EDT
| Looking for a fuel transfer-gas and diesel-pump powered by a car battery. Also needs to be able to pump from at least 25' down. Have looked but no such luck. Any help appreciated. |
| I just have a couple of manual pumps, but they don't go down 25'. I'm guessing you are thinking of drawing fuel out of an underground tank? I think I'd be concerned that the pump is safe for combustible fluid transfer. Don't want to make an accidental flame thrower. |
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Here's some. http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/category_fill-rite+dc-powered-fuel-pumps?seeAll=1 Have one and pump gas,dsl with it. |
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Quoted: Here's some. http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/category_fill-rite+dc-powered-fuel-pumps?seeAll=1 Have one and pump gas,dsl with it. +1 Fill-rite is the way to go, easy to replace seals, common filters and all around good pumps. I've been using one for about 20 years for diesel and it's still going strong, probably outlast me.
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I use electric fuel pumps from cars, I only pump from barrels, but I guess if you had 25 feet of hose and wire it would work. ^^This^^ Get a high pressure efi pump, like you find in a late model Ford fuel module or module rebuild kit, they're small will fit in a standard barrel bung, but they move a lot of fuel, I rigged one that no longer consistently made enough pressure for the vehicle to use as a transfer pump, worked awesome for its size 3gpm or so. If you can drop it down your pipe and get a new one I suspect it willl lift the fuel and probably flow higher than my wore out one, be sure to rig a strainer, underground tanks tend to have lots of sediment and whatnot. |
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Quoted: Looking for a fuel transfer-gas and diesel-pump powered by a car battery. Also needs to be able to pump from at least 25' down. Have looked but no such luck. Any help appreciated. Depends on the specific gravity of the liquid - water is 30-32 ft. Fuel is a little further. Any further/higher the pump has to go down the hole/into the tank. In a pressure application, there is no limit, other that practicality. |
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Which ever pump you go with. Be very cautious with the wiring, switches and connections. I know two kids that spent weeks in the hospital after trying to transfer gas out of a boat at end of season. I guess it was a spark from an inline switch that ignited the fumes after the 4th five gallon can. Luckily they'd carried them off the boat as they filled them.
Most of the burns were to the face and hands. |
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needs to be able to pump from at least 25' down. Looks like maximum suction lift height is around 8 feet.... |