Request for an engineering hint to further improve gas siphoning into vehicle (wetness of the 2nd and 3rd can)

No engineering necessary,

Teach your daughter that along with the privilege of driving a car, the task of filling it with fuel is mandatory. Mommy and Daddy won't always be there to fill it for her so she may as well get used to it.

I couldn't believe this whole thread! Father is not doing daughter any favor, tying himself into knots so the spoiled princess (I assume) won't have to fill up at a gas station. In fact, he's hurting her, because some day she may have to deal with a fill-up and not know how (is that so complicated?).

So what happened after he died?

Not doing Dear Daughter any favors, Dad. She has to learn and accept doing basic chores herself. At some point in her travels, she is passing near a gas station, in all odds. She just has to plan to have the cash and time to full up then and there.

But as to current dilemma- have you considered creating a gravity-feed station? A tall sturdy table to set the gas can on, and a lid with a hose and gasoline-safe valve? Turn the valve off, lift the can into position, stick the hose down the filler neck, and open the valve. Basically a hillbilly version of the old gravity-feed gas tanks farmers used. Yes, you will have to put the can on its side so the lid is near the low point, and if you are filling the car's tank, overflows are a risk without a real gas nozzle with back-pressure cutoff in it. Although I think you can actually buy those nozzles at tractor supply place.

Well, I hate to chime in because the OP specifically asked for no comments about the wisdom of doing this but . . . it's a not a good thing to cater to a fear of gas pumps. It's probably going to result one day in her getting stranded somewhere, alone on a dark highway. All sorts of bad things can happen to the engine by running on empty as the junk in the bottom of the tank gets into the fuel lines. Running on E cost my roommate nearly $1000 bucks on his fuel injected Volvo. It's remembering the look on his face when writing that check that inspires me to fill up when at 1/4 full, even if the gas is more expensive than where I usually shop, or if it's raining or if I am in a hurry.

-- Bobby G.

Well that's simple! She ran out of gas!

The various siphoning tools available for cheap in auto stores. I haven't had much luck with them though.

If you have a compressor, a rag and stick the nozzle into whatever you are siphoning out of. One blast and your siphon is running.

Harry K