Oh, s*%#  Should I replace the filter or anything else in line?  It ran fine
from Williams, CA to Vancouver, WA, afterwards.

I remember reading one fella's email about this issue but I thought his was
a gas engine.  Does it occur in both!?  Why do I have a problem with a
198o's era design with such an issue?  Is it me or the engineers?

On 6/5/08, Scott Foss - Shazam <scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:
>
> Yes, it's it's defenitely possible to not be able to access all the fuel in
> the tank . I've had a diesel vanagon cleraly and distinctly 'clog up' and
> 'run out of fuel' at 1/4 o the gauge, and about 4 gallons in the tank.
>
> There's a 'sump area' in there that can clog up - in the bottom of the
> tank.
>  The real repair is a new tank.
> Scott
> turbovans
>
> Neil2 wrote:
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>
> Seems I tried to wean my Westy last week.  Was running along fine on a level
> interstate stretch and all of a sudden I began to slowly lose acceleration
> despite depressing the pedal to the floor.  I don't recall if I swerved to
> get the tank fuel into the pump but it regained 'altitude' a few seconds
> later.  30 seconds later it happened again and I certainly began to swerve
> that time to keep the fuel flowing.  Same thing as before.  The last time it
> took a nosedive despite my trick.  I never really believed it was out of
> fuel because the fuel gauge indicator was not in the red zone.  Anyone know
> why the red zone on an '82 (diesel) is 1/4" thick!?  Also, the van didn't
> stutter while it lost power or while it regained power.  Mystery.  Do
> diesels respond differently to low fuel conditions?
>
> Has anyone else ran out of fuel while outside the red zone?  If I don't get
> a reasonable explanation this will be yet another crazy VW oddity I'll warn
> me children about.
>
> --
> Neil
> '82 Diesel Westy
> Peace of
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Neil
'82 Diesel Westy
Peace of