It really breaks my heart, but my 1999 S70 AWD quit on me about a week ago. The engine blew chunks...literally (I was unable to drive for nearly two years, so my wife failed to do anything toward maintaining it). Since I haven't nearly enough money to repair or replace the engine, I'm stripping it down for sale to a local scrapyard (I can't leave it sitting there on the street long enough to sell it otherwise), and I want to pull the gas out and put it into another vehicle.

I bought a siphon pump, but when I stuff the tubing in as far as it will go, it isn't reaching the gas...and the tank is over half-full. Is there possibly something in the tank to prevent siphoning? Or do I just need to go buy a long piece of tubing? I'd have thought that two feet of tubing would at least reach the top of the gas, but it comes out perfectly dry.

Considering the small amount of money the scrapyard will pay me for a non-running car, and the fact that I'm nearly broke, it's very important to me that I rescue that gas, if possible.