also, it is not always possible to get fuel before you need it. Seems most people live and work in the city and drive these trucks to get groceries. The rest of us use these for work and on the farm or between farms, etc. I am usually 20-30 miles from a gas station and pull heavy loads quite often. Many times I will start the day with a full tank and make it home on fumes. My last hauling job was now where near a gas station and it was 15 miles in the wrong direction from where we were working and there was no easy way to leave to get fuel. (hence the transfer tank)

All I am saying is its not always easy to just go to the corner gas station and fill up when we should. Thats the point of the reserve after the low fuel light comes on.

 

Tried ear plugs?

 

Not in the bottom of MY gas tank, I was just in there a few months ago. If you look closely at the following picture, you can see the "sock" on the left side of the pump. It's right near the bottom of the tank.

 

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Gawd, that looks clean enough to be in an operating room!
You sure that isn't one of those back side endoscopy things?

I think the only time you get crud in the tank is if you switch to and fro with dino/bio, but the bio cleans it all out. Just have to change the filter more often.

Wait a minute...
What was this thread about? Grrr...
(sheesh)

 

Yeah, it does kinda look like that, doesn't it?

That's a pic I got off the Napa site.

For the record, all the gas tanks I've opened up in the past 20 years were spotless inside. Maybe the rare piece of dirt, or piece of leaf, but no "sludge", no water, no nothing in it. And that's even from people who always keep the tank totally full.

Even my '74 highboy, at, oh, 25 years old, original tank, was spotless inside. No rust, no nothing. Oh well... guess I'm lucky.

And the way I drive, there's no way even a half-empty tank isn't sloshing all over the place anyway, stirring up all the "water and debris" ...

Matter of fact, with evaporative emissions for gassers, you have a big air space at the top of the tank even when the gas gauge says "full". Lots of sloshing going around in there...

Anyway, way

 

Were any of those diesels? Just curious to know as a diesel owner.

 

"gas tanks".

I've seen a few diesel tanks too, box trucks mostly, and never a bit of water or other crud in there either.

I live on Long Island, most of our gasoline comes in through Staten Island, I believe... Not sure about diesel, but pretty sure it's shipped in locally around here. It's not trucked or piped in over long distances.

 

Thanks, I have seen some crud in the bottom of a diesel tank, but it was on tractors and off road equipment. Probably come from the dust and not the fuel.

 

The diesel trucks pickup reminds me of a plunger or suction cup. it fits right againts the bottom of the tank, and has little divots around it for the fuel to flow in between it and the bottom of the tank. It's definitely getting it right off the bottom of teh tank and would probably suck the tank down to 1/16" of an inch. When I put my truck back together, I must have bent the arm for the fuel sender, and it went empty almost right when the light came on. On the guage it was relatively on empty.

I adjusted the arm a little, so I can go a ways before the tank is empty after the light comes on.

IMO 4 gals is empty when you are starting off with a 38 gallon tank. At 15mpg, I don't have that much more to drive. compared to the rest of the tank.