Jury rigg gas can?

[jimwheeldon]

I'm getting closer to trying to fire up the old bizzy. I know the gas in the tank is circa 1967. Is there a good way to unhook the tank and run a temporary hose to a gas can? I'd just like to hear it run and see what works/leaks etc. I know I'll have to drain the tank and blow out the lines of the old gas tank...hopefully it's not too crusty in there. Any tips or advice on going about this would be appreciated. I'm sure anxious to hear the old girl run!

[Jim Yergin]

To test mine I just disconnected one of the gas line connections at the front of the car and attached a length of metal line with the proper fitting on one end and connected it to the open fitting. I cut the fitting off the other end of the extra metal line and slipped on a length of rubber gas hose. I put the rubber line into a gas can and started the car.

Jim Yergin

[Norm's Coupe]

If you just want a test run, disconnect the gas line just before the fuel pump. Then just hook up a flexible gas line from your gas can to the fuel pump. Or, you could set the can on a fender or something higher than the carb and let gravity do it's thing. If you do that you would need to plug the outlet on the fuel pump. Otherwise if the fuel pump were to pump gas from the tank it would shoot it out the outlet all over the place.

[builtfercomfort]

But DON'T do it inside the garage and DO have a fire extinguisher handy! I've seen sparks fly from starters... not good near gas cans.

[Guest 50Plymouth]

The inlet side of the pump is a great place to hook a few feet of fuel hose as already specified. If your going to be much running at all and your gas can is old or at all dirty you might stick a .99 cent plastic fuel filter on.

Odd kitchen utensils like turkey basters (but smaller) can be used to fill the carb. bowls through the carb inlet. Before my tank was boiled and lined I did just what was written earlier and above - quick and easy, and before that when I stripped the fitting with the needle and seat we used a mini baster type kitchen thing to get idling for a bit.

[Merle Coggins]

I am using a portable boat tank that I borrowed from a buddy. You can see it sitting on my "operators platform", just to the right of my fancy bucket seat.

Merle

[Young Ed]

Dads wood hauler 46WC had one of those for its actual gas tank! Its an older metal version though

[Normspeed]

Merle, that's about as bare-bones as you can get!

[55 Fargo]

Here is my very temp gas tank, don't even like to use this set-up, but I ain't got no gas tank yet............Fred

[JIPJOBXX]

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Do you think one of you guys could jury rig up a gas can for this rig?????

[Plymouthy Adams]

that will never get off the ground....

[T.Tom Meshingear]

I have one of these (older version with single hose) that is used for cleaning fuel injection systems. I figured since it holds fuel and can be pumped up by hand it would be the perfect portable fuel supply. I drove the Plymouth for about 10 miles with one using it as the tank and fuel pump.

If you hook it up to the fuel line going to the tank you can flush backwards with fuel under pressure. 75 psi really cleaned the tank filter.

It seems like overkill but the tank and fittings were free so it was well within budgetary guidelines.