Sounds like a bad sender unit to me!    :-)

Brent Christensen
'89 GL Syncro Westy
Santa Barbara, CA

----- Original Message -----
From: Douglas Demarest <Dldemarest@AOL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 8:59 PM
Subject: "reserve" fuel capacity

> My 86 Vanagon ran out of gas PROMPTLY as the needle hit the whitelline
below
> the orange zone.  At least in my van, the orange zone IS the reserve.  I
was
> used to vehicles that would seemingly run forever after the needle passed
> "E".   I have often put 15 or 15.5 gallons in the vanagon.
>
> Doug Demarest
> Minneapolis, MN