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- From: gene@wucs1.wustl.edu (_Floor_)
- Subject: Re: reliable cars
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.151437.23926@wuecl.wustl.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 15:14:37 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug19.054125.28541@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> lusky@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Jonathan R. Lusky) writes:
- ] You left out one major part, which i suspect may have been what stranded
- ] the previous poster... The injection pump! Don't ever run a vw diesel out of
- ] fuel!
-
- I did this once. I usually keep the amount of fuel in my tank low. One time,
- I was really low and was on my way to the fuel station. Somehow, like the
- dunce I am, I forgot where I was going. As I passed the fuel station, my
- throttle quit responding. I suddenly realized I was out of fuel and had just
- passed the station. I pulled over into the next parking lot, ran back to the
- station, bought a 1 gallon fuel can, filled it up, ran back to the car,
- poured it in, and it started right up! Then I just drove back to the
- station and filled it up. Somehow, it didn't cause a problem to be out
- of fuel!
-
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