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Date:         Mon, 17 Apr 2000 09:22:53 -0700
Reply-To:     Joel Cort <joel_cort@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Joel Cort <joel_cort@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Running Empty "Light" - Re: Syncro "reserve" fuel capacity
Comments: To: Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
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Running on empty! Ya know which light, the litle red ones in the center console. They also come on when you turn the ignition on. It is really really empty when the oil pressure light comes on and the van starts bucking!

It's a Volkswagen! it dont need no silly Low Fuel light! Just reach and turn the reserve tank handle for an extra gallon.... ;-)

Ok enough humor, I was on empty, at the bottom of the gauge and I was able to put in 17.5 gallons in my Syncro. Cost me $25 friggin dollars for 87 octane.

None of the lights had come on yet and I was coasting down the hill to the the gas station. Of course you all know that fuel capacity varies with temperature of the gasoline so we can all be off 1/4 to 1/2 a gallon on this. Assuming we trust the fuel pump reading and they arn't scamming a gallon here and there.

Cheers joel 89 Syncro Westy

--- Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@WORLDNET.ATT.NET> wrote: > What light? I don't have a light! Mines an '85 > Westy also. > > Incidentally, since we're all talking about this, > mine used to hold 16.0, > but due to some really rough and rocky roads, my > dented tank only holds > about 15.6. > > Karl Wolz > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jim Cain" <jcain@MINDSPRING.COM> > To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> > Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 8:05 AM > Subject: Re: Syncro "reserve" fuel capacity > > > > Don't know about Synchros, but on Herbie, 85 Westy > I know exactly! > > Last summer returning from the High Country Bus > Festival in Boone, NC > > my navigator gave me the wrong turn (Wasn't my > fault, right?) that > > put us on a back country road. I started looking > for gas stations, > > but there were none to be had. In a while we > started coughing and I > > thought that we would be walking a while. We > crested a hill and it > > quit! Coasting down and around the corner we came > to a little > > country store with..........a fuel pump. Yea! :-) > > > > Any way, from completely empty to full was 16.45 > gallons on the pump. > > I realize that running completely dry is not good > for the fuel pump, > > and usually fill at the next station after the > light comes on. > > > > Well, about six months after our country test on > the capacity of the > > tank, I ran out again! This time there was no > light so I thought I > > was ok, and the light has not worked since. Doubt > if there is a > > connection, but that little light was a friendly > reminder to pull > > over and gas up. Now I just go on mileage and > fill up at about 200 > > miles. > > > > Jim in Atlanta > > >

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