can anyone help, daughter had accident in her 1994 corsa 1.2 and we are going to have to scrap the car ( she not hurt) but she had just put £25 petrol in tank is there a way of getting it out without damaging the tank
Umm, you could stick a hosepipe in there and suck till the petrol comes, I'd use a clear hosepipe so you can see when its about through and not get a mouthfull of petrol. That's the only way I know of. Probably not terribly smart. Personally, I'd just let the petrol go, seems simplest, and least dangerous.
Dump £25 of petrol?! Madness! Do the hosepipe thing and get two or three jerry cans. Take some extra strong mints, too! Garlic breath's bad enough, but petrol breath..
we have tried the hose pipe thing lol but petrol wont come out. ur right bout the petrol breath though
Well if that doesn't work, the only thing I can think of is removing the petrol tank. But seriously, it'd take hours, you might as well just spend the time working and make the same ammount of money or more.
Yeah, most cars have an anti-siphon trap nowadays. When you're scrapping it see if you can get a bit extra because of the fuel that's in it.
You could try puncturing the tank and draining the fuel but I'd be far too worried about igniting it if I did. Certainly not worth risking for £25 of fuel...
Find the outlet pipe from the tank, position can underneath, and either cut the pipe or disconnect from the tank. May not work if its of the pump-in-tank arrangement. Or remove the tank and tip it upside down. If you're scrapping it anyway you can cut some corners (literally) which may make it easier to get out. The scrapman will most likely drain the tank anyway, may as well have go yourself
more annoyingly some scrap yards won't take it with a full tank anyway find yourself a nice sized metal bit and drill a hole slightly above the bottom on one of the sides (above bottom so you don't get any sludge from the tank)
Cut the fuel line, run it to a jerry can and turn the ignition on, all corsas should have electrical fuel pumps but I can't remember if they're in tank or not.
Your best bet is probably to cut through the fuel line. Don't drill into the tank - you run the risk of igniting the petrol then...
This does not sound good. It really doesn't sound worth it for £20 worth of petrol (you won't get it all out)
Just pull the fuel pipe out of the injector rail ...... stick it into a length of hose pipe into your cran ..... then just keep turning the ignition on and off this will pump the fuel out. I had to do this on an escort we scrapped ..... except it had a FULL tank...... took a while but was worth it.
Mortus is right, did this with £40 petrol from a 620 that dropped a valve on the motorway, disconnect the starter though as it will get very hot when you are cranking it continuously...
chech the heynes or however you spell it manual there be summet in there usally telling you how to do it,
I'd go with this idea, but if you don't know how to do it, sucking it up through a hose pipe isn't that baad.
could also find the fuel pump power lines and just hook 12v dc to it... should kick the pump on and let it go
Don't know about the Corsa, but my car has a sump plug on the petrol tank. If you're lucky, just stick a bowl underneath it, undo the bolt, et voila!
