Tonight I finished replacing my gas tank.  What a pain.  I have siphoned most of the gas out but can't seem to get it empty.  I would guess there is about 2 gallons left.  Any ideas on how to get it all out?  Also what shoud I do with the tank.  The tank is in decent shape, but the pipes from the fuel pump housing are rusted out and there is a lot of jb weld type stuff blocking the bolts to remove the pump's plate.

big field and a match

jason

big field and a match

jason

u beat me to it i was gonan say a empty gravel pit, add some more gas and have fun

mine has a drain plug on the bottom.  

Once you get the gas out, you (offically) need to dump it at a hazardous materials collection area ( check with your local gov. for disposal areas where you dump oil, gas, paint, etc.....) (unoffically) all you need to do is completely drain the tank, rense it good, cut it into small enough peices to fit in a trash bag and send it out in the garbage. Once it is "cut into peices it "becomes peices of plastic" and not a fuel tank any more. Same goes with metal tanks and hauling scrap metal to the recyclers. If you drain/rense and cut up a metal tank the scrap yard will take it as scrap, but in one peice they will/can not accept it.

Zig

Put it on e-bay some body will buy it, I garentee ya

Once you get the gas out, you (offically) need to dump it at a hazardous materials collection area ( check with your local gov. for disposal areas where you dump oil, gas, paint, etc.....) (unoffically) all you need to do is completely drain the tank, rense it good, cut it into small enough peices to fit in a trash bag and send it out in the garbage. Once it is "cut into peices it "becomes peices of plastic" and not a fuel tank any more. Same goes with metal tanks and hauling scrap metal to the recyclers. If you drain/rense and cut up a metal tank the scrap yard will take it as scrap, but in one peice they will/can not accept it.

Zig

In Idaho, all you have to do is show the scrap yard the hole you punched into the tank with a screwdriver and they'll take it.

Put it on e-bay some body will buy it, I garentee ya

LOL!

No sh-t some scrap yards in Alabama will takem if you just run over them and flaten it out

No sh-t some scrap yards in Alabama will takem if you just run over them and flaten it out

That's what I did with the tank from my niece's Dodge Avenger that was punctured in a hit-&-run Xmas eve. Ran it over & over & over with my K1500 p/u. It was still fairly thick & bowl shaped. (Man, they're sturdy!) I must've gotten 10 or 12 cents out of it in that load of steel! I sure like aluminum prices a lot better...  

i like the field ideal, but you could just put it in an EMPTY dumpster AWAY for scociaty just chuck it in, stand at the limit of your ability to through, strike up a road flare and tos it in,

FWI: emeditaly after tossing the flare, run

and if you wanted you could do somthing with drano, but its dangerous, really cool but ....  it is really somthing most ppl should not know.  kinda like mixing amonia and bleach, combined with a stick of tnt and a pretty red fire ball . with a lod bang and intense heat.

Take it out to the gravel pit and shoot at it. Maybe it will blow up like they do in the movies.  But if it don't, at least the gas will leak out... then put it on Ebay

2 ways.. either a local scrap yard or E-Bay, I know some of the scrap yards here in michigan will take them as long as they are empty......But if it were up to me E-Bay it with a low reserve........

Mythose- are you talking about a "McGyver bomb"? A plastic 20 oz pop bottle, a balled up piece of aluminum foil, and fill the bottle with The Works, replace cap, throw. Nice boom out of it, no fire though.