[AT] fuel transfer pumps

[Spencer Yost]

I've never owned one but have been around and used many 12 V, "back of the truck" type pumps. These always seemed bulletproof to me. Maybe buy the 12 V pump,  a battery and a trickle charger?   All three are probably roughly the same cost as the 120V.   

Another idea:    many many many years ago(so I don't remember exactly how they did it), a grading firm  had a series of cut off valves, T fittings, hoses and quick connects to allow the truck pump to suck off of a stationary tank when needed to fill the truck tank.  Maybe put a tank and the pump on your truck and use it as a mobil pump station and don't even buy one for the stationary tank?

Then again, you were talking to a guy who's diesel tank was installed 6 feet high so  I could let gravity do the work and not buy a pump. :-)

Spencer Yost

> On Jun 13, 2016, at 10:21 PM, John Hall <jtchall at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> Well it appears I've had another fuel transfer pump to quit This is the 
> second 115 volt Fill-rite pump I have had to have something electrical 
> go out in it in less than 10 years. According to the meter which I 
> bought new with the first pump, we have pumped a little over 5,000 
> gallons of gas. It seems to me that these pumps ought to be able to 
> handle 5-600 gallons a year for a couple decades, not 4-5 years. The 
> pumps stay under a shelter, never pump over 25 gallons at a time. No 
> repair shop localy wants to touch one once they hear I am pumping 
> gasoline. I buy the cheapest one they make, even then its over $300. 
> Anybody here have any better luck with their more expensive models? How 
> about another brand?
> 
> John Hall
> 
> 
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