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| View Poll Results: Running out of gas harmful for your car? | |||
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#31
07-16-2004, 08:30 PM
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Re: Fact or fiction
Great experiment. I wait to hear the final results after several hours of dry running. Thanks for donating your time and effort and ten dollars to the education of the forum.
Jake 
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#32
07-30-2004, 12:52 PM
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Re: Re: Fact or fiction
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#33
07-30-2004, 06:46 PM
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Re: Fact or fiction
I don't care if you believe me or not but my story is all truth and nothing but the truth.
My friend is a poora$$, he doens't work and his parents pay for insurance and gas. He drives an 89 toyota corola that we have literally revived from the flesh eating virus (RUST). He had half fenders and three quarters of his doors. So he obviously didn't care for it. He always let the gas tank near empty. He stuck on to my every word as gold when I told him that "a gas tank has a 10km reserve that you don't see on your guage". So he kept running his tank low even though I told him that he shouldn't do it often because his fuel pump might die. He said that he didn't give a crap, the entire car was only worth $100-200. The funny thing is, months later, he had a fuel pump failure. Maybe it was just due to old age but the point is THE FUEL PUMP DIED. I have no theoretical explanation to what happend but that's what happend.
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#34
07-30-2004, 09:26 PM
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Re: Fact or fiction
he burned the pump its not rocket science
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Simon R 2001 Silverado W/T 4.3 124,000
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#35
07-31-2004, 01:25 AM
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The warning to never run out of gasoline was ment for electric (in tank) fuel pumps. They lose their cooling and in some cases lubrication and start to wear. I just rebuilt a 4.3 for my neighbors mud truck and he runs his tank dry all the time. One day the pump will fail him and he will know why thanks to me bugging him about it.
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#37
03-06-2005, 07:21 PM
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Re: Fact or fiction
I havn't read all the way through this, so I don't know if this has been posted.
The way I was always taught to relieve fuel pressure was to siphon out the gas, and let the engine run until it dies from lack of gas.
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