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Put the siphon hose in the gas tank of the vehicle and extend it into a gas can to catch the fluid you will drain. Make sure the gas can is lower than the gas tank in the vehicle. The pressure will move the gas into the can.
No. There is an anti rollover valve in the gas filler neck of all modern vehicles that prevents a syphon hose from reaching the gas tank.
Most modern thieves will simply drill a small hole in the gas tank and take what they want (allowing the rest to drain out on the ground).
However, there is one trick that gas thieves can use to reach the gas through the fuel filler, but it involves using a small, still metal tube (think refrigerator icemaker water line tubing), cut at a sharp angle and twisted while it was being inserted. It takes a while to do this, and will take forever to syphon out just a gallon, but it can be done.
Due to gas thefts becoming more prevalent when gas was either hard to come by or expensive or both, many manufacturers installed anti-siphon blocks in the gas tank filler necks of many vehicles. These can sometimes be gotten around by judicious fishing of the inlet tubing down through the gas filler neck, but it can be very hard on some vehicles. Try measuring the distance from the bottom of the gas tank to the top of the filler neck with a yardstick. You can hold the bottom of the yardstick approximately at the bottom of the tank as you can see it while kneeling down beside the back tire and note the distance to the filler tube. Mark off that distance from the end of the inlet tubing for the siphon and put a heavy mark on the tubing at that point. If you can\'t get the inlet tubing down the filler neck to this mark, you probably aren\'t going to be able to successfully siphon gas. You can try twisting the tubing as it goes down the filler neck and pushing it up and down to see if you can snake by the anti-siphon block. It helps if the siphon inlet tubing is small and stiff, but again, no guarantees.
Most cars have an anti siphoning device in the filler tube that resembles a screen so you can't put a tube down to be able to siphon gas out of the tank.
Not sure on that particular model, as some have a filter screen in the filler neck preventing a tube from being stuck down into the tank. Only one way to find out, stick a piece of garden hose down the filler neck ( use about a 4 foot section) if it only goes in a few inches to a foot, you will have to drain the gas by disconnecting the fuel line at the tank and pressure pump it out. Mike
I would simply pound a pipe through the screen and snake a siphon down it. If you are more safety minded, jack up the rear corner where the gascap is and find where the fill tube enters the tank and disconnect that. Then put your drain siphon hose in, begin to drain and lower the jack slowly as it drains out.
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