Reflex wrote:
Now that is not a bad idea at all. I don't even know that you'd need it to be so electronic, just having something external to run to your normal fill location and a pump would do the trick. I don't mind pumping it, I just don't wanna get stranded.
Electronic? Only electrical parts involved would be a 12V Facet thumper pump and an on/off switch. From your description I think you meant "mechanically complex".
In either setup, this would in essence be no different than pulling up to a pump at a truck stop and refilling the fuel tank - except we already have the fuel on board and don't need the truck stop.
Either setup would work just as well getting fuel into the tank. The one advantage to what I described, with having a pump that can be remotely operated from the cab and already having the outlet hose plumbed to the fill neck of the fuel tank, is that you could refill the fuel tank while still driving down the road.
Even if you're not inclined to or are nervous with filling "on the fly" so to speak, there are situations where this capability would be an advantage - if you're low on fuel and there's no safe place to pull over and perform a refill at hand, you could transfer over just a few gallons to keep you going until you reach the next rest area. Or in the case of truly inclement weather, you can pull into a rest area, switch on the pump until the tank is refilled, then go on your way - all from the safety and comfort of inside the vehicle.
And as far as the "safety" aspect - there's been a few rest areas I've pulled into over the years, especially at night, that I've wondered whether or not I was going to get assaulted or mugged if I got out of the vehicle. Pulling out a transfer hose and manually refilling the tank advertises to anyone within view that you have fuel that is easily accessible for the taking - not much different than having a couple of fuel cans strapped to a trailer hitch basket behind the vehicle.
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