Date:         Mon, 4 Mar 2002 15:19:13 -0600
Reply-To:     Dart 330 <dart330@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Dart 330 <dart330@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: more fuel problems!!!!
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Unfortunately I know for a fact I am not out of gas as I have driven less
then 100 miles on one tank and the gauge reads over half full. Hopefully
after work I can pull my filter and see what crap is in it. Unfortunately it
is 8 degrees outside in the sun :(

Nathan



>Hot Damn!
>
>I have done pretty similiar things too... even though I have been driving
>various gas powered machines for a couple decades now, and should
>definately
>know better.
>
>It is strange though... I always seem to run out of gas like 20 meters from
>my house, and then try for an hour to figure out what the problem is,
>before
>it finally dawns on me.
>
>Anyways, it is better to feel a bit stupid, and go get some gas, than to
>have a trashed fuel pump, sediment in the tank and lines, hole in the tank,
>or any other real difficulties.
>
>RSF
>
><º)))>{   <º)))>{   <º)))>{   <º)))>{   <º)))>{   <º)))>{
>
>Robert S. Fish
>Salzburg, Austria
>1987 Wolfsburg Vanagon 2.1 GL Weekender
>1987 Golf Cabriolet
>1991 Golf
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Blake Thornton" <thornton@MATH.UTAH.EDU>
>To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
>Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 8:31 PM
>Subject: Re: more fuel problems!!!!
>
>
> > > 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
> >




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