[s-cars] Re: 4 foot of snow and no where to go...

[CyberPoet]

The reason you may be having problems siphoning gas from the tank is
there is probably a screen located about 1/2 down the filler tube
neck... Instead, pull the fuel line at the fuel filter and power up the
car's electrical fuel pumps by switching the key to 'on' without
starting it, then take it from there...

Other solutions:
1. Shovel by hand. Cold, dangerous, horrid.
2. Car solution A: Start the car, leave it running, turn the heat to
max, move it 6" backwards each 5 minutes. The heat from the car should
melt the snow.
3. Salt. Spread it, baby...
4. Car solution B: Get in and just drive. Hell, it's only snow... might
want clear a ramp up to the edge first, though :P
5. Depending on ambient temperatures, there are a number of compounds
about the house that will melt snow on contact. What's the outside temp?
6. The Tom Sawyer approach -- get the kids in the neighborhood to build
a snow man in your front yard -- using the snow from your driveway.
7. Eliminate the problem permanently: Move. It was 78 degrees today
here in sunny Tampa, Florida (grinning).

Cheers!
=-= Marc Glasgow
www.cyberpoet.net

On Thursday, March 20, 2003, at 12:00 PM,
s-car-list-request at audifans.com wrote:

> The driveway is covered with 4' of snow and the snow blower only made a
> trivial dent before we ran out of gas.  Knowing that the trusty 93 S4
> had a
> full tank, we tried siphoning, but we're unsuccessful (despite stuffing
> about 5' of hose into the tank).