Draining Water From Boat Fuel Tank

This moeller clear site water separator and filter allows you to see any water settled into the bottom of the clear plastic fuel bowl and has a large opening valve to drain the water out.

Draining water from boat fuel tank.

Make sure you use a clear hose and not a water hose. An owner might prefer to remove fuel from the tank for the winter rather than treat the fuel. This video shows the steps i undertook to remove the w. You will not be able to see the gas.

With the separator shown in the top photo simply unscrew the canister and dump the water out. There are several reasons why a boat owner might want to drain a boat s fuel tank. To drain my boat s fuel system i first shut off the fuel line to the outboard and then run it dry either in the water at the ramp or in the driveway using water muffs until it stalls after burning all the fuel out of the carburetor. All fuel has some small amount of water in it that s caused by condensation settling in the fuel storage tanks that are part of the fuel distribution chain.

You need a large bucket preferably a five gallon one. Remember working around gasoline can be dangerous. However depending on the boat and fuel system arrangement such filters may not be compliant with uscg or abyc standards. It s pretty difficult to get a siphon tube to make the hard turns from the fill to the bottom of the tank.

The best method for siphoning fuel water is to remove the sending unit and siphon from there with the boat level. A boat owner s nightmare. Water in the fuel tank. Perhaps the fuel has been contaminated by water or another substance.

In order to clean your boat fuel tank you must first siphon out the gas that is left inside.