Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 23:26:24 -0400
Reply-To: "Daniel L. Katz" <katzd54@YAHOO.COM>
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From: "Daniel L. Katz" <katzd54@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: Ran out of gas & now won't run
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maybe the large canister after the fuel pump is another filter.
dan
On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 02:36:16 -0700, J. Harvey <jtharvey2@HOTMAIL.COM>
wrote:
>I bought a 1981 Westfalia today. 10 blocks from the previous owners home
it
>started to run out of gas. 5 blocks later I coasted into a gas station
>barely sputtering on fumes and had 10 gallons pumped in. Now the van
won't
>run. It will start and idle for 1.5 seconds and then it put-puts like it
is
>running on one cylinder and then dies.
>
>What gives? At first I thought sediment had clogged the fuel filter,
nope.
>I replaced that with no luck. Could the fuel pump have burned up while it
>ran dry for less than 2 minutes? What's the large canister that sits
after
>the fuel pump? There's definately no obstruction between the tank and
>pump....I got a shower.
>
>Here's another one. The tank was bone dry when I added $20 of gas. The
>tank only took $18.50 (~9 gallons) and then proceeded to leak. ?
>
>Any help would be great. -John
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