Has anyone drained a 911 tank to replace the strainer?

How did you drain it?

Rich

Run the fuel pump and pump the gas into a gas can?

seems simple enough, but no one explains where to apply the mystery jumper....

I know I could hotwire it, and I may just do that to make life easier....

Rich

jumper fuel pump relay?????

Pull it out and turn it over in the yard.

What year?

Or go get a $25 fuel pump and a length of hose and go down the filler pipe.

we have a siphon hose, going to do what we can to get most of it.

The last bit will just be a "man up" exercise with the doors and windows open, some funnels and cans to catch what we can.

Even then, the strainer is at the very bottom of the tank.
No matter what, when I pull that out, there will be more fuel there...


Rich

That is when you light a match to see how much is left. Shortly afterward there will be zero gas left I there.

Rich,
here is a picture, it is on the bottom of the tank, it will be by the crossmember for the front suspension
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Siphon it out.
Don't tell us that you never did that as a kid when you couldn't afford to buy gas for your first car.

What are you up to now?

Who needed to siphon? A tank of gas for my first car was under 3 bucks, and I got 25MPG ............................... Sometimes it was under 2 bucks, if there was a gas war going on.

The Cap'n

Fuel pump strainer is old, clogged and making the fuel pump hot and f-in loud..

So, replacing the strainer...
It's like the sock in a 914, just costs a lot more.

You can't figure out how to drain a fuel tank and you say Pelican is pitiful?

Without getting gas all over me....

Hose in hole

Mouth on hose

Suck

Oh, and post a picture.

Easy fix, Pull the engine and put it in your 914.

Best advice so far.

like mark said. dig out an old facet and some fuel line.

So, still alive and did not blow up....

Pulled the strainer and while there was nothing obvious, when held up to the light the bottom section was clearly coated with a film....possibly lacquer like stuff....

Gotta love the new fuel we are using....

Seems like this is an annual filter to change every spring now....