How do I siphon my 2006 19' angler gas tanks?

Should have read that closer. Siphoning with a plastic hose is pretty easy, finding a place to take it for recycle will be a little more difficult.
 
One thought might be to take the outlet hose to the engine loose as near to the engine as possible and then lightly pressurize the fuel fill nozzle and pump the fuel out. That way no dismantling the tank covers. Small air compressor with a jury rigged plug into the fuel fill. You will have to extend the fuel feed hose to whatever tank/tanks you are going to drain into.
 
I pull fuel out with an electric (12 volt) fuel pump thru the pickup tubes. If you have a filter with 4 ports, just tap in at one of the ports, if not then use the hose going to the engine. You can use the same route to siphon. You don't need to get the last few gallons out. I have run as old as 3 year old gas diluted 3 to 1 in my truck with no problems. Add Stabil for ethanol to the gas. If you put Stabil in when you button up the baot, the fuel should be good when you go to run it.
 
Funny you should ask...I just did the very same thing. I used an inexpensive plastic hand pump made for pumping 55 gallon drums. You can get one at farm supply places, etc. Worked great. I cut the pick up tube and fitted a piece of 5/8" clear vinyl hose so I could get it down the filler hose more easily and see that it was sucking. There was no screen on my tanks filler tube inlet. It pumped the 15 gallons pretty quickly and I just put it in old gas cans.

The gas in our boat was 5 months old and treated with marine sta-bil. We had planned on using the boat over the winter but things just didn't work out. Anyway, the old gas caused the engine to be extremely hard to start. When we started it on the trailer it really took some doing. The next day we planned on a fishing day. I was unable to get more than about 1500 rpm and she just died. I tried many times and finally gave up and went back to the dock. While winching her onto the trailer, the winch strap broke and I dropped the hook into the water. It just wasn't our day. It's funny looking back at it now, but I wasn't very happy at the time.

I changed the spin-on water seperator and flushed the lines, too. Added fresh gas, again with marine sta-bil, and she started right up and purred like a kitten. Ran perfectly without a hiccup. Today's ethanol gas really is crap. I got some help from one of the engine mechanics at work, I'm in the CG, and he said he drains the carb bowls on his outboards and his dirt bikes as well after every use. Fill your gas tanks with only enough gas for you to use in a short time, with safety margine, of course. He hates the bad gas today. It just doesn't stay fresh very long and the water problems with ethanol are well known. The local outboard repair folks told me the same thing. I've been told that Yamahas are a bit finicky with fuel, but I don't have anything to compare to.

Anyway, I'm planning on splashing her on Wednesday and doing a high power run to confirm all is well, but I think we've got it licked.

Oh, I used the old gas for the lawn mower...worked ok on that and a guy at work wants some of the old gas so disposal wasn't a problem.

Rick
 
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