Date:         Fri, 7 Mar 2008 15:26:13 -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?
Comments: To: Allan Streib <streib@CS.INDIANA.EDU>
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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.

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/>  

 

 

 

-----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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1991 Vanagon GL

 

 

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