Date:         Mon, 4 Mar 2002 12:31:03 -0700
Reply-To:     Blake Thornton <thornton@MATH.UTAH.EDU>
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From:         Blake Thornton <thornton@MATH.UTAH.EDU>
Subject:      Re: more fuel problems!!!!
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> There is always the fourth possibility.....
>
> You are out of gas!
>

I'm almost embarrassed to post this, but I just drove from St Louis back
home to Salt Lake (in total, I put about 4500 miles on my van in the
trip).

Before leaving, I was having problems with my van cutting out and dying.
You can look in the archive for the detials if you want.  Anyway, I
thought I finally had it fixed and I had traveled about 3800 miles without
any problems.

Well, going west along I-80 in western nebraska, the wind had been really
blowing and it was probably 5 degress F out.  I made it chappell and my
trip odemeter read 180 miles or so.  Well, there was nothing open in
Chappell, so I went on to the thriving metropolis of Sidney Nebraska.
Well, my van started sputting at high speeds (something that it was doing
before the trip that I thought I had fixed).  There is no way I could be
out of gas, I usually can go 260 or more miles very safely.  My gas gauge
was still reading about halfway on the orange - so not at the bottom.

Well, my van finally stopped at about 6 miles out of Sidney, and it was
cold.  Wind was howling, and without the wind, it was probably 5F out and
it was probably 9PM.  I thought for sure something really bad had happened
and my old problem was back.

Well, I hitched into town and called a tow truck.  I had him tow me 100
miles to Cheyanne (where I would prefer being if something bad had
happened).  It cost me $20 with AAA.  the first thing I did in Cheyanne
was fill up my van with 15 gallons.  Well, I was out of gas and my van
drove fine after that the whole way back to Salt Lake.

Blake