Add lots more fuel first. 2 gallons may not have been enough to get it started again. The fuel outlet pipe runs much higher than you think inside the tank. Mark mordo wrote: > It finally happened: my first breakdown. I'm currently stranded on a > busy thoroughfare in Baltimore. > > I had just rounded an exit ramp, uphill and the engine sputtered to > stop. I am low on fuel and the previous owner had indicated that the > fuel gauge is untrustworthy when it's low. > > I put two gallons in and it still won't start. I had my wife crank the > engine while I checked a couple of things. Fuel pump runs. Nothing > else obvious comes to mind. Perhaps a clogged fuel line if it was > sucking debris. > > Waiting for a tow truck now to carry me a mile and a half home. > > In a peculiar coincidence, minutes after I came to a stop, a grey > Westy drove blithely by me. I expect it is one of perhaps four > Vanagons I've ever seen in Balto. > > I feel strangely honored to be a part of the legions of stranded > Vanagon drivers all over the world. > > Mordo > > -- > mordo > 1990 Carat > |
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