

| Subject: | Re: Useful Fuel Load |
| From: | John Rodgers |
| Date: | Tue, 4 Apr 2006 15:46:32 -0500 |
BTDT!! John Rodgers 88 GL Driver x2 Roger Sisler wrote: >I told this story once,but I'll tell it here ,again.This is vanagon >content,and may help a future strandee. I ran out of gas in my driveway. I >had just driven home,and was going to go get gas first thing when I left >the next time. I thought I had some gas left. Well, I went out to my >vanagon to go somewhere,and it wouldnt run . It would start, but not >rev.What the ?? I got out my tools and meters out and started to find out >why.Is this an electrical or fuel problem? After 15 minutes, I remembered >how a vanagon runs out of gas(dont ask). The engine will start and run, but >not rev, as the fuel in the lines is used up.The gas pressure goes down >till all is gone.Guess I cut the margin a bit to tight that time.I swear I >had some gas left in there.It seems that there two types of vanagon owners. >Those that have run out of gas, and those that have not run out of gas >yet,but will.I went and got the lawnmower's gas can. > > > >
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