Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 18:33:12 -0800
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Shazam <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel - Shazam <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: fuel tank capacity?
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I had a 1967 Rover 2000TC sports sedan,
Helleva car.
Would still be relevant in modern times it was so good.
It had a knob on the console, like just below the dash that was a fuel
reserve.
I put a spare 10 gallon tank in the trunck,
Fed the main tank through the old 'lower' spot in the main fuel tank and
always pulled main tank fuel from there,
And put my extra tank on the reserve position of that knob-operated valve.
Worked out nice. 600 mile range. I do that to all my serious keeper cars.
I had a 56 Bus with the reserve knob of course. ( my first vw and vw van ) -
doors on both sides, a 'Commercial."
And I wildly guess that they kept that reserve knob feature until 67 at the
end of spltties, but forgot that they put a fuel gauge in them in 1960, as
mentioned, thank you.
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Buese [mailto:tombuese@comcast.net]
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 3:42 PM
To: Scott Daniel - Shazam
Cc: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: fuel tank capacity?
On Mar 7, 2008, at 4:26 PM, Scott Daniel - Shazam wrote:
>
>
> Possibly some people don't recall that older vw's traditionally had
> a real
> reserve on them. On a Bug, a lever you twisted to access a lower
> point in
> the fuel tank, on split window Buses, a cable knob to pull that did
> the same
> thing.
>
> Discontinued in the 68 Bay Bus I believe.
I think it was in the early 60's, possibly even 1960.
Mr. BZ-wish they still had them
>
> So that wide red portion of the fuel gauge- that's 'reserve.' In the
> traditional 'german-mind' VW sense.
>
>
>
> I have found that 2WD vanagons have even 2 gallons left in them at the
> bottom of that band, like when pumping fuel out of a tank to empty
> it. .
>
> On a syncro or two, I've had them run out of fuel well before the
> bottom of
> the reserve band.
>
> I've also observed that in a 2WD vanagon, when it gets way down
> there, the
> needle moves up and down very slowly, like will read 'panic nothing
> low' and
> then five minutes later the needle will have moved up some.
>
> Never good to suck the last remains of gas and junk out of an old
> fuel tank
> of course, as in driving it that way, you can get junk in the rest
> of your
> fuel system doing that.
>
> Scott
>
> www.turboans.com <http://www.turboans.com/>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On
> Behalf Of
> Allan Streib
> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 12:21 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: fuel tank capacity?
>
>
>
> On Fri, 7 Mar 2008 12:08:51 -0800, "Mike Elliott"
>
> <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM> said:
>
>> In the case of analog-toilet-bowl-float-connected-to-a-rheostat type
>
>> fuel gauges, what does the word "reserve" mean? Surely folks aren't
>
>> expected to think that once the pointer reaches "E" they still
>> have 0.9
>
>> gallons left. I'm pretty distrustful of any readings close to "E".
>
>
>
> I was just referring to the shaded area at the bottom of the gauge. I
>
> know it's not really a "reserve".
>
>
>
> Allan
>
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