A couple of undergraduates working in the field for a friend used the window washer fluid container for a gravity feed fuel source when a fuel pump failed on his old Subaru wagon.  One of them held the container out the window while the other drove.  They were in the back country of the Sierra Nevada at the time.  mcneely

---- Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> Driving the length of the Baja penninsula just the year before the highway
> was paved, the fuel pump of my 66 F150 truck failed near Catavina, about as
> far as you can get, in this world,  from parts (back then).   Used a couple
> of sections of spear gun rubbers to fashion an external fuel line from a 5
> gallon gas can, which we tied to the roof of my camper..Gravity
> feed.......Drove 2 more full days like that to get to Sta Rosalia where we
> found another old ford to scavenge a pump.
>
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 8:21 AM, Jonathan Stone <
> bluehighwayvanagon@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I love these stories!
> >

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David McNeely