I had a bus once that had the letter "R" on the orange band at the
bottom of the fuel gauge, after having the bus for a little while I
figured "R" was German for walk.
On my current '84 (Westy) I replaced the tank and figure that 16
gallons at 20 mpg (Subie 2.2) means I have to gas up every 300 miles
no matter what the gauge says. Have not had to walk with this one yet.

Rob
becida@comcast.net
Western WA State, USA

At  10/20/2009 11:23 AM, David Beierl wrote:
>At 01:26 PM 10/20/2009, 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.
>
>May help to remember that it's really a 60-liter (15.86 gal) tank,
>and that the reserve is ten liters.  There's no mark on the gauge
>corresponding to 3/4 -- the first one is what I would call half, and
>on both my vans it's been pretty near half mileage-wise.
>
>Yrs,
>David