Auxiliary fuel tank for a Honda pump

[springhillsmaple]

I'm thinking buying a portable gas tank made for a for a boat motor and hooking it up to my Honda pump so I can run the pump as long as I want. Has anyone tried this or tried some other way to increase run time? As it is now, one tank-full will move about 900 gallons a half a mile down to our sugar house. On a good day we need to move more like 3000 gallons and that's a lot of walking back and forth. thanks

[MISugarDaddy]

I believe Dave Klish did something like that for his RO when he still had a Honda motor on it. You might want to PM him.
Gary

[Cjadamec]

You are going to need a gravity feed tank like one for a portable generator to feed your pump motor. Most marine tanks are a pressure feed and the motors typically have somesort of fuel pump.

This universal generator gas tank replacement on amazon might be what you are looking for. Its's got a 5gal capacity and includes a shut off valve. You would just need a new fuel line to connect the carburetor on the pump to the new tank, and a stand to mount the tank to.
https://www.amazon.com/FLYPIG-Gallon...=fsclp_pl_dp_3

[mountainvan]

I do use 4 of the generator fuel tanks, they work well. I just built stands from spare lumber.

[Sunny Hill Farm]

We use a snowmobile gas tank to feed our gas powered vacuum pump. It has worked well for several years. it is plumbed so we can use the large tank or the motor tank if we want to run a shorter time. it is mounted outside of the pump house and feeds by gravity. We get 8-10 hours run time on a tank of gas.

[springhillsmaple]

Thanks all for the replies! I'll let you know how it works

[miboss]

You are going to need a gravity feed tank like one for a portable generator to feed your pump motor. Most marine tanks are a pressure feed and the motors typically have somesort of fuel pump.

This universal generator gas tank replacement on amazon might be what you are looking for. Its's got a 5gal capacity and includes a shut off valve. You would just need a new fuel line to connect the carburetor on the pump to the new tank, and a stand to mount the tank to.
https://www.amazon.com/FLYPIG-Gallon...=fsclp_pl_dp_3

What size tubing did you buy and did you have to put in any kind of reducer to connect to pump? I got the tank you linked to and some fuel line that matched the spec of my WX10 pump (1/8" ID and 3/8" OD), but that tubing is way too small to fit on the barbed end of the petcock that came with the tank.

It always seems like there's some new fitting, reducer, etc that I forget to get...

[Cjadamec]

I never actually used one I was just suggesting a cheap solution to the problem you had. You will need some sort of reducer to go from the tank to your fuel hose not sure exactly what size though.

[miboss]

no worries, I think I found what I need. 3/8" ID to 1/8" ID. I'm excited to not have to fill my pump every 45 min

[miboss]

I was hoping to pick your brains again. Small warning, I'm not very good with engines...

My WX10 has a fuel return hose, so I'm not sure if I need to do anything with that.

As I see it I have 2 options.

1. I can run the auxiliary fuel tank directly to the carburetor (like stated above). If I do that, and leave the fuel return hose to the tank on the pump, would that cause any issues?

2. I also bought a couple spare gas caps for the pump, could I just mod a gas cap and run the hose from the auxiliary tank directly through the modded gas cap and leave the carburetor and fuel return line alone? I assume that to mod the gas cap I would just need to drill the appropriate sized hole and caulk around where I run the auxiliary fuel line in?

Thanks for bearing with my questions.