Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:40:25 -0600
Reply-To: Tom Buese <tombuese@COMCAST.NET>
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From: Tom Buese <tombuese@COMCAST.NET>
Subject: Re: Fuel Gauge Behavior Changed/Also now grille burner thought?
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On Oct 20, 2009, at 11:26 AM, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
> Say . . . that fifths viewpoint is a good one and it fits how the
> dial is divided up, nearly. The tank holds 16 gallons (US), the top
> of the red "reserve" area is said to be 2.6 gallons, a fifth of 16
> is 3.2 gallons, so that's purt' darn close, too.
Yep, those Germans actually had reasons for the way they designed our
vanagons!
I a bet there is a reason why all the burner grille designers leave a
big area in the middle of the burner open-maybe so that you can't put
small pots on the grille that would allow the flames to wrap around
the sides & burn you or the handles on the too small pot???
IMNTK,
Mr. BZ-are we trying to circumvent those smart aleck designers who are
trying to protect us from ourselves?
>
> --
> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> 74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
> Bend, OR
> KG6RCR
>
>
>
> On 10/20/2009 10:05 AM Tom Buese wrote:
>
>> On Oct 20, 2009, at 10:37 AM, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
>>> I can easily get 240 miles on a full tank in my 84. But when the
>>> gauge is
>>> at the halfway marker, the odo shows around 90 miles. The fuel
>>> gauge drops
>>> more slowly after that, so middle to bottom of the red is 240 or
>>> so miles.
>>>
>>> 90 miles above the halfway tick, 150 miles below it. Not very
>>> linear.
>>>
>>> Who designs these things?
>> We talked about this a couple of months ago, & someone pointed out
>> that the division lines in the fuel gauge are actually 1/5 markers
>> w/ the red part being the last 1/5 & what we all think of the 1/2
>> mark being only the 2/5's mark. Since then I have shifted my
>> paradigm to this concept & my gauge which used to get to 1/2 way
>> before it got to empty now reads as it should?
>> 240mpt= 96 miles at the old 1/2 144 miles at empty+-
>> what's 6 miles between vanagons? (2.5%!)
>> YMMV,
>> Mr. BZ-still only able to get 15.75 gals. max in my tank w/o
>> running out-working on 16.0 as we speak
>>>
>>> --
>>> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
>>> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
>>> 74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano,
>>> Calif.)
>>> Bend, OR
>>> KG6RCR
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/18/2009 8:29 PM Steve Williams wrote:
>>>
>>>> I ran my '84 Westy out of gas today, thank goodness within walking
>>>> distance of a gas station.
>>>>
>>>> I knew the fuel was low, but the gauge was still well above the red
>>>> band, and I've driven more miles on a tank. I was running errands
>>>> and decided to complete just one more task before filling up.
>>>>
>>>> I put 16.1 gallons into the 16-gallon tank. The van got 19.0 mpg
>>>> on
>>>> this tank, so that's pretty normal.
>>>>
>>>> The question is: Why didn't the gauge dip into the red, as it
>>>> always
>>>> has before?
>>>>
>>>> A clue: The gauge didn't budge when I poured a 2-gallon gas can
>>>> into the
>>>> tank.
>>>>
>>>> When the engine died, I was sure it was because I had depleted the
>>>> battery. I'm the guy that keeps posting to the list about the low
>>>> voltage from my alternator. But that wasn't the problem this time.
>>>>
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