you have to play it by ear, literally, listening for the tank to sound fuel
Back when I had my Jeep, at least the first several years, it had a manufacturing defect in how the gas tank was installed. As a result, I had to do the fill by ear bit or many of the commercial pumps would shut off too soon or too late (If I recall, sometime one and sometimes the other). I was pretty good at getting the tank full.
But once on a road trip from Chicago towards Mammoth Cave and then to Murfreesboro TN, I noticed that I'd gotten all the way to Indianapolis with a quarter of a tank left. Prudently deciding I should fill up anyway, I was on an offramp near a gas station when I did run out of gas. For the rest of the trip, I had to treat 1/4 tank as nearly empty.
To fix this, the dealer ended up giving me a whole new tank as well as the gauge sender. The only problem, they put on the larger tank, but used the sender for the smaller tank my Jeep had originally come with. So, for the rest of the time I had the Jeep, I knew that once the gauge reached the empty peg it was time to worry about getting gas.
When I sold the Jeep to a kid in high school, I told his mother but not him about the extra gas when the gauge hits empty.
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Date: 2011-01-13 09:13 pm (UTC)Back when I had my Jeep, at least the first several years, it had a manufacturing defect in how the gas tank was installed. As a result, I had to do the fill by ear bit or many of the commercial pumps would shut off too soon or too late (If I recall, sometime one and sometimes the other). I was pretty good at getting the tank full.
But once on a road trip from Chicago towards Mammoth Cave and then to
Murfreesboro TN, I noticed that I'd gotten all the way to Indianapolis with a quarter of a tank left. Prudently deciding I should fill up anyway, I was on an offramp near a gas station when I did run out of gas. For the rest of the trip, I had to treat 1/4 tank as nearly empty.
To fix this, the dealer ended up giving me a whole new tank as well as the gauge sender. The only problem, they put on the larger tank, but used the sender for the smaller tank my Jeep had originally come with. So, for the rest of the time I had the Jeep, I knew that once the gauge reached the empty peg it was time to worry about getting gas.
When I sold the Jeep to a kid in high school, I told his mother but not him about the extra gas when the gauge hits empty.