Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 00:20:27 -0600
Reply-To: Max Wellhouse <maxjoyce@IPA.NET>
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From: Max Wellhouse <maxjoyce@IPA.NET>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Stranded - my first heartbreak
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I have vast experience running my Vanagon out of gas and although
another post alluded to this, I've found that if the Vanagon won't
start after adding even one gallon to the tank, opening up the
staubkess steek bolt in the fuel line T to purge the air eventually
will get the Van to alow fuel to the injectors.
Max
At 07:38 PM 12/4/2006, mordo wrote:
>Thanks, all. I am home safely. As I was but a mile and half away from home,
>my Allstate auto club covered the whole deal. Very friendly tow driver.
>
>I do suspect it was run out of fuel as it quit during the big, fast sweep of
>the exit ramp. I will replace the fuel filter and get some more gas in it.
>
>It was a brilliant irony that a Westy would pass me by just as I had broken
>down...
>
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>From: Joy Hecht <jhecht@alum.mit.edu>
>Date: Dec 4, 2006 8:07 PM
>Subject: Re: Stranded - my first heartbreak
>To: vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com
>
>Welcome to the honored league of stranded vanagonauts, Mordo! You have
>finally arrived...
>
>BTW, Sam Walters, on this list, lives in Baltimore.
>
>
>
>Joy
>
>
>
>****************************************************************
>Joy Hecht
>now living in a real house in northern Virginia
>and Matilda, 1989 Burgundy Vanagon
>now living in the driveway and resting after two and a half years
>lugging Joy and her stuff around...
>
>For musings about life traveling in the van or living in one place:
>http://www.joyhecht.net
>
>****************************************************************
>
>
>:::-----Original Message-----
>:::From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf
>:::Of mordo
>:::Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 6:36 PM
>:::To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>:::Subject: Stranded - my first heartbreak
>:::
>:::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
>
>
>--
>mordo
>1990 Carat
>
>
>
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