| Jon Hagen - 6/5/2011 23:
We had a 1/8 inch clear plastic hose plumbed into the highest part of the 8 inch plastic drain hose and connected it to a vacuum fitting on the pickup engine(gas).
The engine vacuum pulled water up into both ends of the drain pipe untill it was full and began to flow on its own. (4 ft head of water on one side) When we started to get water in the 1/8 plastic hose, we quickly disconnected it from the pickup engine and capped it.
Do not allow the vacuum hose to put water into the engine, it can hydraulic the engine and bend a rod.
That should work. Wish I had ask here before messing with the tank. I never thought about doing that although thats how we prime or irrigation pump. If you use a long piece of the clear line it gives you a little more safety---yeah right -maybe about a 1/10 of a second per foot! We messed an engine up once doing that. Didn't do major damage but wouldn't run good after that. Guessed we might have warped a valve. After that we put a 4' piece 4 inch pvc in the middle. Clear intake line to the bottom , another clear line out the top to the truck motor. Not sure you can find a vac line on the newer engines.
Edited by Skipper 6/8/2011 07:29
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