Suggestion to pump gasoline from one car to another in a garage

[Jules]

That'd probably be more of a "whummmmmph"...

[DerbyDad03]

re: "whummmmmph"

True dat!

I went on a cabin-building camping trip many years ago. One night we piled up a lot of the scrap wood for a bonfire.

Unbeknownst to us, one of the campers - an adult! - poured gasoline around the base of the pile to help it get started. The pile was big enough that by the time he walked all the way around it, put down the gas can and grabbed his lighter, the fumes had spread out into a fairly large circle.

I was almost a quarter of a mile from the fire but I still heard the "whummmmmph" ... and then all the yelling/screaming.

My 2 daughters, 3 and 4 at the time, were sitting on the lap of their

16 YO cousin near the pile. He saw the ball of flames heading his way and flipped sideways out of the chair, landing facedown with my daughters underneath him. The flames singed the back of his hair as they swept over them. The girls were scared but totally unharmed. I cooked that kid a huge breakfast the next morning!

[dsi1]

My suggestion is that you buy 2 cars that are identical in every way and switch them while the little lady is sleeping. You'll have to 'esplain why her car never needs any gas and why your car needs constant refilling but I'm sure you'll come up with something. :-)

[Caesar Romano]

On Thu, 7 Jan 2010 14:06:50 -0800 (PST), DerbyDad03 wrote Re Re: Suggestion to pump gasoline from one car to another in a garage:

Sounds like our annual bon fire. Check it here:

The light-off come about 10-seconds from the start of the video. Keep you eyes on the small white dot at 4-O'clock 1/2 way from the center to the edge. Wait for the "whummmmmmmmph".

[Stormin Mormon]

Don't you mean fwoof?

[Jon Danniken]

When I was a kid, I lit some gasonline in the garage. It caught fire, made a yellow flame, then extinguished itself.

I really didn't see that the big deal was.

So, I make a bigger pile of gas, lit it, and although the flame got a little higher (maybe a foot or two), it was still fairly unremarkable.

Undaunted, I made an even bigger pile of gas. Unfortunately, I realized I needed more matches, so I left my pile of gas on the floor and went into the house to get more matches.

When I came back out and lit the gas, I finally understood what the big deal was about gasoline, and more importantly, gasoline vapors.

Jon

[aemeijers]

Do the math- unless she is going to a station that caters to seniors and is still full-serve, the hi-lo split is seldom more than ten cents per gallon. How far out of your way do you go to get to the cheap station? How far would she have to go, compared to the streets she usually drives? It costs about 30 cents a mile to drive a car. What is your time worth? If her buying the fancy stuff bugs you that much, get up early on Sat, and take her car down to the corner and fill it yourself. Modern cars usually have anti-siphon flaps in the filler neck, so unless you buy a farmer-style transfer pump, there is no cheap way to do what you want to do.

If that is the most extravagant/annoying thing she does, count your blessings. Remember, most women prefer going to 'nice' places, even gas stations. She may simply find the cheap place to be nasty.

-- aem sends...

[aemeijers]

Back in mechanical fuel pump days, lotsa sheriff and state cop cars in Indiana had a setup like that, for helping stranded motorists out in the boonies. A tee, a valve, and about ten feet of fuel line coiled up on the fender liner. (First seen when I was a little kid wandering by the gas station, and a state cop was filling up and looking under the hood. Of course I went and looked, and the cop indulged my curiosity.)

-- aem sends...

[The Daring Dufas]

Yep, The Alabama State Troopers did it too back in the early 70's during the Arab oil embargo.

TDD

[JIMMIE]

My wife is just as bad in the opposite way. She drives 16 miles round trip to save $0.15/gal. She drives a Chey pickup with a 350

Jimmie

[clare]

Not all cars have them,ut they are a Schrader valve, like a tire valve, for connecting a pressure guage for diagnostics. Be slow pumping, and the car would need to be running as the pump only runs for about 3 seconds with the car not running.

[clare]

He didn't say what kind of car HE drives. If it's a late model chrysler (neon/2000 ijn particular) and many other models, there in no longer a fuel return and the pressure regulation is done in the pump, which is in the tank.

Many vehicles do not have a test point that can be reached and tapped, if they have one at all.

[Ed Pawlowski]

Yes, I have a simple solution. I don't fret about $3 a week. Frugality is smart, but there are times the stress would outweigh the savings. Look at the potential loss with a mishap, your time to do the swap and your time for the extra fill-up you have to do now instead of your wife. Find a better way to economize.

[FatterDumber& Happier Moe]

I'd be getting in contract with Dr. Phil on this one. Either he will have you buying more expensive gas, or the wife will be buying cheaper gas. Shouldn't take more than a few years of therapy.

[Plumber Bob]

Or Susie Orman!

She'd say you've got 15 gallons a week times 20 cents savings per gallon times 50 weeks in a year times 30 years in your marriage =3D $4,500 over the life of your marriage.

Back to Dr. Phil, he'd note that it's 10 minutes per week times 50 weeks times 30 years which is 250 hours spent improving your marriage.

You only can decide if the 250 minutes improving your marriage are worth the $4,500 you save doing it!

[Heron McKeister]

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$ Let it slide, my friend, let it slide.

Of course you could just as easily do as you suggest ...

$ It's really not worth getting $ all lathered up over something so trivial as a missed joke.

... but you instead choose to immediately follow-up with pretense, condescention and an intentional pejorative mischaracterization. Btw, ever notice how those least astute and capable are coincidently also often those most prone to the unrelenting offering of unsolicited advice? I have.

$ You've made valid points regarding relay terminals and nylon quick $ disconnect inserts and the gallons per hour delivered by a specific $ Bosch pump.

$ We get it...you know what you're talking about.

Thanx and all, however I neither desire nor require the validations of others. That I know what I'm talking about could hardly be more obvious, and it isn't limited to simply technical subjects. But just who is this "we" you so presumptively speak for?

$ I'll tell you what. The next time I respond in a thread that you are $ participating in, I'll be sure to use ;-) and :-o and :-( etc. so $ that you'll be able to determine whether I was trying to be humorous $ or not. I certainly wouldn't want you to miss the chance to chuckle at $ my jocularity.

While your alleged attempt at humor, as already established, failed miserably (for which you, not I, must accept full responsibility), your continuing affectations in this same vein are however convincing that you're somewhat of a clown.

[Ashton Crusher]

You are going to go thru all that trouble to save $200 a year?? You save $0.20 per gallon. If you swap 20 gallons a week that's $4 a week, X 52 weeks a year = $208. Seems dumb to me.

[DerbyDad03]

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Where ya been? The collective "we" missed ya.

re: "While your alleged attempt at humor, as already established, failed miserably..."

It could only be a miserably failed attempt at humor iff it *was* an attempt at humor, therefore there is nothing alleged.

If you feel that it failed miserably, then at least you and I finally agree that my post was an attempt at humor and not offered as a serious alternative to the jumpering of pins 3 & 5 of the fuel relay socket. That's good. Agreement on specific issues is a positive step forward in our relationship.

re: ...for which you (meaning me), not I (meaning you), must accept full responsibility...

OK, we've made some progress on the "agreement" front, but there's still some lack of communication between us. It would please me if we could work on that a bit. Let's get started...

As I'm sure you know, barriers to communication can be many and varied. However, I think this one should be simple to remove. Just back up a few posts, maybe in the range of 25 - 30, and you'll see where I very clearly stated that my comments were of a facetious nature. I do believe I *have* taken full responsibility for my actions. I couldn't look myself in the mirror if I didn't.

But we're past that right? Let's recap:

1 - I said I was being facetious. 2 - You doubted my word. (ouch!) 3 - I commented that there was nothing I could say or do change your mind. 4 - Something changed your mind since you now appear to be somewhat open to that fact that I made an attempt at humor. (otherwise, what could it be that "failed miserably"?)

I do think we've made some real progress here.

re: "...you're somewhat of a clown"

Now ya see how easy this is? Clowns, well, most types of clowns anyway, were put on this earth make people laugh. By posting humorous (or apparently humorless) comments, I'm just trying to do my part.

Is that Judy Collins I hear in the background?

[Red Green]

JIMMIE wrote in news: [e-mail]:

Had one of those with a Holly 4bbl. It could suck up black holes.