when does your low fuel light illum?
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when does your low fuel light illum?
on my way to work this morning sitting at a light the fuel light goes on...this is the first time i had the fuel light go on and be able to go straight to the gas station leaving from the light.
i fill up my truck and clicking it 3 times it only goes to 23.3 gallons and i have a 29 gallon tank
i guess it good - i should never be able to run out of gas
does everyones light go on that soon?
i thought about this too, i was sitting level at the light
i fill up my truck and clicking it 3 times it only goes to 23.3 gallons and i have a 29 gallon tank
i guess it good - i should never be able to run out of gas
does everyones light go on that soon?
i thought about this too, i was sitting level at the light
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I've not gotten that low on my '05, but my '99 PSD would get near empty on the gauge, the computer would say I had 5 miles to go, but I never pumped more than 26 gallons into the 29 gallon tank.
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The light always comes on after driving between 600-615 miles in my truck. (Starting out with a full tank of course.) There is usually 8 gallons left in the tank out of 38 gal. if I am foolish enough to believe the light and hit a gas station right away.
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Originally Posted by n578md
The light always comes on after driving between 600-615 miles in my truck. (Starting out with a full tank of course.) There is usually 8 gallons left in the tank out of 38 gal. if I am foolish enough to believe the light and hit a gas station right away.
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Actually, my average is around 19-19.5mpg highway and empty. The tank holds a little more than the published 38 gallons. I'm guessing it's closer to 40 gallons. With the 3.73's, I could do 20.5mpg easy, with the 4.30's, Im down to 19 to 19.5 but it'll pull an 11k trailer beautifully now. (At 5-9mpg though!) In town, it's around 15 mpg, maybe 16 on a good day.
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Originally Posted by n578md
Actually, my average is around 19-19.5mpg highway and empty. The tank holds a little more than the published 38 gallons. I'm guessing it's closer to 40 gallons. With the 3.73's, I could do 20.5mpg easy, with the 4.30's, Im down to 19 to 19.5 but it'll pull an 11k trailer beautifully now. (At 5-9mpg though!) In town, it's around 15 mpg, maybe 16 on a good day.
As for my gas light...it comes on and I put about 24 gal in.
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Well, unlike you rich folks, I have a 2WD regular cab, 5.4L, 6-speed manual in a stripped-down XL truck. I'm not pushing a 7500 lbs truck around like you guys. That'll get you some descent mileage, although not with the power and style of a 4WD Crew Cab Lariat V10 or diesel though. 
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i have let my computer go down to "17 miles to empty" (can you believe i bought it, and took it home with the light on. the ignorant bass terds didnt fill it up) and i put 40.6 gallons in it. so i guess i got the 40 gallon tank, or a reallly special 38 gallon tank. 
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Originally Posted by n578md
Well, unlike you rich folks, I have a 2WD regular cab, 5.4L, 6-speed manual in a stripped-down XL truck. I'm not pushing a 7500 lbs truck around like you guys. That'll get you some descent mileage, although not with the power and style of a 4WD Crew Cab Lariat V10 or diesel though.
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And likewise, I've been thinking of cutting the frame and putting on a short bed. (Someone on this site has actually done just that reg cab short bed F250 looked pretty good!) Also, I could saw off 2 cylinders and have a 4.1L Triton V6. (Or a 3.4L V5 if it blows a plug.) those little 2.3L I4 Rangers are looking mighty good now, aren't they?
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When my LOW FUEL light illuminates I can get 23-24 gallons (I have a 29 gal. tank) in pretty quickly...If I throttle the diesel pump slowly, I can get another 4-5 gallons in. That last 4-5 gallons it takes to 'TOP OFF' my truck is a very slow process and always has been since the truck was new...Not sure why? But anyhow, maybe that's a ? for a future thread. My truck is an XL Trim 'Plain Jane' and therefore no computer to rely on for a ball park figure on 'miles to go until empty' so I usually wheel into a station very soon after the light goes on...Bigfront
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38 gal. tank here. When the light comes on, I have about 8 gallons left in it. I took it past E once and still had ~4 gallons left in the tank (was only able to put 34 gal. in it). At 8mpg, when it gets a bit below 1/4 tank, it's time to start looking for a station.