Now that you ran out of gas, you need to get a replacement fuel pump. At
the time it sucked air, it most likely suffered some damage.

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of jimt
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 11:33 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: How to run out of gas.

Just got through doing some work on the gas tank and like a dummy put
one
gallon back in instead of 6 gallons I had taken out.  (in a dummy hurry
and
had gas in a one gallon and in a 5 gallon can and only put the one back
in)

Was on the way over to my daughters and realized it at the same time I
started down a slope and saw a gas station up ahead.  One gallon in the
tank
(about a quart at that point) is not enough to go down a slope and have
gas
reach the pump.  At the same time as the engine was going silent I
realized
what I had done and rolled over to the side of the road and proceeded to
bang my head on the steering wheel.  Fortunately texaco had put a
station
only 50 meters up the road.

However I did manage to prove that a 2.2 gallon gas can (plastic) will
bring
the fuel gauge on the 82 right to the edge of the orange reserve marker.
........................................
jimt
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