- Hyperreality ( @Hyperreality@kbin.social ) 28•1 year ago
You can’t siphon a trucks gas just because it has a blue line flag. Most modern cars have an anti-siphon valve, so that causes issues.
Instead, you locate the fuel tank and drill a small hole in it. That way you can let the fuel collect in a tub or jug. On lifted trucks this is even easier. Drill the hole, pop a large jug under it, perhaps use a small rubber hose or funnel.
Remember to leave them a little note that you’ve drilled a hole, so they can go get it repaired and not leak fuel everywhere attempting to refill it.
- db2 ( @db2@sopuli.xyz ) 24•1 year ago
Install a self-tapping valve, then you can drain the next tankfull even easier.
- HikingVet ( @HikingVet@lemmy.sdf.org ) 7•1 year ago
Self tappers are great. Don’t forget your gasket so they don’t notice a drip.
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- 6daemonbag ( @6daemonbag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 9•1 year ago
Is that why I couldn’t siphon my gas that I needed for a generator after a hurricane? Not only did I fail at what I thought would be an easy task, I got sick and threw up in my 95⁰ house
- InputZero ( @InputZero@lemmy.ml ) 4•1 year ago
Yup, you got a lung full of gasoline vapors and nothing else. You need a car siphon pump, they’re super cheap and available at any auto store. You just gotta make sure it’s got a long hose on both sides and a tube for air to get into the tank. If the hose is too long just cut it. Those stick ones don’t work on every car cause some gas tanks have slight bends.
- Stephen304 ( @Stephen304@lemmy.ml ) 4•1 year ago
Pro tip for sucking volatile gases, you can suck air into your mouth and push it out your nose without it going into your lungs. I do that when I clean glass pieces with iso when there’s still some vapors present. If you exhale out your nose while you do this you can be extra sure none goes into your lungs. Granted you should also be sure you’re actually pulling liquid if you’re trying to syphon, but at least you wouldn’t be pulling into your lungs.
- valkyrie ( @valkyrie@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 year ago
Citation needed.
- Stephen304 ( @Stephen304@lemmy.ml ) 0•1 year ago
Why don’t you just try it…? It’s not that hard to do. Just relax your sinus muscles and close your lips, then alternate between using your tongue to fill the space in your mouth pushing air out your nose and moving your tongue out of the way to create a void, sucking air back in. If you can coordinate this while also alternating between closing your sinuses and opening your lips while you create the void in order to suck air in your lips, and then closing your lips and opening your sinus so that the air gets pushed out your nose, then you’ll be able to pump air from your mouth out your nose without using your lungs.
- valkyrie ( @valkyrie@lemmy.ml ) English1•1 year ago
I guess I’m not really following the technique. But let me ask this: Regardless if you aren’t getting air to your lungs then there is no point of breathing right? Since the lungs are the ones that get the oxygen into your bloodstream. If using the technique above is actually effective, wouldn’t you choke because of not getting enough oxygen?
- Stephen304 ( @Stephen304@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 year ago
Yeah so you’re essentially holding your breath while you do it, so you’d need to take a break to breathe in and if you’re trying to siphon you would need to seal your lips to prevent losing your progress / prevent the liquid from falling back down. But you can exhale while doing it, which also helps to make sure your don’t accidentally inhale whatever fumes you’re “pumping”.
Granted it’s kind of a silly thing to do and only marginally useful. Each cycle only moves a mouthful of air so I only find it useful for clearing trace amounts of isopropyl fumes from vapes and pipes without hurting my throat, but a fun trick nonetheless if you have the coordination. And depending on the fumes it might still burn your nostrils a bit.
Maybe the better way to explain the technique is: you can close the back of your throat and move your tongue back and forth to push air in and out of your mouth. You can also close your lips and do the same motion with your tongue to push air in and out your nose. All you really need to do is alternate between the two so that instead of pushing the air back out your mouth, you push it out your nose.
- 6daemonbag ( @6daemonbag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 1•1 year ago
Haha yeah that was my method. I was just too stubborn and, combined with the heat at the time, courting disaster.
- Altima NEO ( @altima_neo@lemmy.zip ) English3•1 year ago
May as well take that cat converter while you’re down there, for good luck.
- tim-clark ( @tim-clark@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
Just shove tampons down the filler tube or any non fuel liquid
- TinyPizza ( @TinyPizza@kbin.social ) 20•1 year ago
Step 1. Poop in a bag.
Step 2. Grab the bag from the bottom and pull it inside out so it’s now acting as a poop glove.
Step 3. Shove the poop under their door handle and then use the bag to wipe excess visible poop away.They might not know it’s because of their boot licking but they sure as hell will start thinking about things a little more.
- triclops6 ( @triclops6@lemmy.ca ) 7•1 year ago
You had me at poop in a bag
- Comment105 ( @Comment105@lemm.ee ) 2•1 year ago
Monkey.
If anything you’ll encourage the trucker to shoot someone, raging with so much renewed hate, because that’s exactly the kind of degenerate behavior they associate with the left.
- ruination ( @ruination@discuss.tchncs.de ) 9•1 year ago
On a more serious note, though, while I do 100% that the “Thin Blue Line” is pure idiocy, I don’t think that actually going out of your way to harass them (even if it is warranted) is in any way effective in convincing them otherwise and having them see reason. Same reasoning as with why many young boys these days fall down the alt-right rabbit hole and become a Tater Tot.
- Holzkohlen ( @Holzkohlen@feddit.de ) 10•1 year ago
You also think beating up fascists is “a bad way to make them see reason”? It’s entirely not the point. You beat up fascists to make them be afraid of openly being a fascist.
- ruination ( @ruination@discuss.tchncs.de ) 1•1 year ago
Fair enough, I was being too idealistic. I just wish we can have them see reason instead, but if we can’t, making them shut up and not spread their idiocy would perhaps make for the next best thing.
- BeardedSingleMalt ( @BeardedSingleMalt@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
There is a high chance that someone shoving that thing-blue-line bullshit probably own a gun and are desperately waiting for an excuse to shoot someone for even the most minute reason. And they had said “FAFO” 3 times already that day
- chemicalprophet ( @chemicalprophet@lemm.ee ) 5•1 year ago
It also means you can fuck their spouse as long as you don’t hit them…
- yetAnotherUser ( @yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca ) 4•1 year ago
What’s that wannabe USA flag?
- cobra89 ( @cobra89@beehaw.org ) 5•1 year ago
It’s the “thin blue line” flag, cop apologists essentially.
- setVeryLoud(true); ( @isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca ) 5•1 year ago
Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses
- mustardman ( @mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de ) English2•1 year ago
That episode of Trailer Park Boys has my all-time favorite scene when Ricky was in court:
- craftyindividual ( @craftyindividual@lemm.ee ) 2•1 year ago
Ricky didn’t steal your gas, it was “raykins”.
- Ser Salty ( @Ser_Salty@feddit.de ) 3•1 year ago
Only wack suckas like Cory and Trevor steal gas
- Altima NEO ( @altima_neo@lemmy.zip ) English1•1 year ago
It’s always trucks too
- Gleddified ( @Gleddified@lemmy.ca ) 1•1 year ago
Unleaded tastes a little tangy, supreme is pretty sour, and bootlicker gas… tastes pretty good!