Aux Fuel Tank for Yamaha Generator

[JMG]

Has anyone added a gas tank for your Yamaha generator? Someone said to get a marine tank at Walmart. But my Yamaha 2400 does not have a fuel pump. I can easily disconnect the fuel line from the Yamaha built-in tank and coonect it to the marine tank - but will it suck the gas from the bottom of the marine tank? Someone said they thought it would. I would like to confirm this, please.
Thanks,
jmg

[skypilot]

Not sure about the particular 'marine' tank you are looking at but there are numerous posts of using extended tanks posted on RV.net and also on Yahoo -- go to the Honda Gnerators groups -- if the link works try this: http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/...ec=group&slk=1 . Basically what happens is you fill your honda's tank and then as it that tank is drawn from it generates a vacumn which pulls the fuel from the aux tank. Several people have multiple generators pulling from one larger tank -- pictures and writeups available there as well.

[JMG]

It works - I just tried it.
No fuel pump needed. It works because of the siphonage effect - just set the aux tank a little higher than the gen set.
jim