Anyone in Lakeland Florida lol

 

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Lol I ran myself out of gas.

 

I'd help but I'm 2900 miles away.

 

I'll go, vettex, I'm only 1133 miles away! haha

 

I'm the closest at 500 miles...

 

1,627 miles for me. You get it home okay?

 

On a semi serious note, doesn't your van tell you when you hit reserve?
Mine dings and a light goes on.

 

With my long gone 94 F150 I made it the last 5mi's, barely, to the gas station once by swerving around like a drunk driver. It would pulse with power as the gas sloshed around in the bottom of the tank and coast in between.... Thinking back I would not recommend attempting this.

 

I am about 2150 miles away and it is getting so hot here the gasoline would evaporate before I got there.

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I did the same technique with my motorcycle. A person immediately offered me a ride and my bike was kept safe while I was gone. The impound yard fees were a bit high, I thought.

 

^^^ They have to pay for those nice uniforms.

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Yes it beeps and then the digital odometer displays "LOW FUEL".

Usually I click the button so it resets back to the odometer, and then it will remind me again about every 11-12 miles. Never pushed the button this time.

It first happened as I was about to get on the interstate in Orlando, and I immediately started thinking of which exits have gas stations with reasonable entry/exit (answer - none; lots of U-turns required in trafficky central Florida: especially with Rocko Bammy visiting the shooting victims yesterday)

So I hit the highway about 3pm and beat most of the usual 4:30-6:30pm gridlock.

During the next 45 minutes of driving I received more phone calls/texts/emails than usual... Next thing I know the engine sputtered a little bit going up a slight highway grade. I was hopeful that the downhill portion would solve my problem, but nay.

And for YEARS I kept a full 2gallon gas can tucked away, but not this time. And I have no memory of removing it.

 

It COULD be a memory problem but get checked out at the doc. You could have contracted C-Nile virus. I have it and it mainly seems to affect older aged people.
There is no cure. Not one that anyone can remember, anyway. :-)
jim

 

To answer your general (generic) reply to this forum.........

That van is way too old, get your self a new van, that has a self feed fuel reserve and you will not have this problem again.........just get rid of it and get a new one........it's just to old to re-fuel

 

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