almost ran it dry
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From: Leesburg GA
almost ran it dry
i was coming back to work pulling a 24 ft trailor and my gas light came on, i knew i had 50 miles so i ket going i had 20 or so miles,(im 16hrs out of town by the way in good ole PA) just so happens every gas station does not sell diesel and then someone was t-boned ahead of me and traffic didnt move for a while, anyway my truck got down to 5 miles and started surging and acting like it was running on 4 cyl, is this normal,??\by the way i got to a gas station with 1 left on the dash
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From: Marco, Louisiana
I did the same thing last Wednesday. I was pulling a 24' stock trailer loaded with 12 cows. My dash said that I had 50 miles to empty, the next gas station was only about 20 miles away. When I got to the station it started surging. I had 4 miles left when on my dash.
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I did that last week as well. At first, I thought I was havin a problem with my truck. I didn't think it was actually empty. Anyways, made it to the station and pumped 32.2 gallons in my 32 gallon tank! Kinda scary for me. I wont be letting it get that empty any more.
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From: Crowville Louisiana
I ran mine past 0 the last night. It never acted funny I do have a 91 gal aux tank so I wasnt worried about running out. I got 585 miles on that tank. Last trip i didn't get but 555 driving the same way. maybe my milage is getting better.
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Mine is an 05 XLT so no computer. I have got the LOW FUEL which replaces the odo on the dash. Is 50 miles the generally accepted distance remaining when that happens? I think my tank is 29 gal with the short bed and that's about what it took.
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Originally Posted by chili7
Mine is an 05 XLT so no computer. I have got the LOW FUEL which replaces the odo on the dash. Is 50 miles the generally accepted distance remaining when that happens? I think my tank is 29 gal with the short bed and that's about what it took.
i'm not sure how much reserve there actually is, but i've pumped 29-31 gallons into it many times so i'm sure i was close to empty.
BTW guys, it's not a good idea to run empty, very hard on injectors/pump etc..
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You're starving your injectors of fuel when you do that and getting air in the system. Your fuel is what lubricates the injectors! Not a good thing to run them dry.
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My wife ran mine almost dry last week (it started surging and sputtering on her) and so she pulled over and called me. She only made it 7 miles after the light came on before the sputtering started. The weird thing is that I could only get 28.5 gallons into it, normal is like 30. The last time this happened I was on the highway and could only get about 25 miles after the light came on until it started sputtering. After all that, I carried a 5 gallon can filled with #2 just in case last weekend on my trip through the Sierras.
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From: Stuttgart, Ar
There was another thread here last week about trucks going into "safe" mode when they start to get low on fuel. I've never experienced it but I saw several that had experienced it. I wonder if it's computer related or sucking air related. I have a fuel pressure gauge so I can see it happen, but for those who don't how would they know? Maybe someone with one of the later model trucks that has a fuel pressure gauge and has experienced this phenom will chime in and we can get a correlation.
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From: Florence,SC
Originally Posted by jomac11
I have had my low light come on once so far, I probably went 15 miles after it came on, but I had to go that far to get ULSD...