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  3. Path: sparky!uunet!morrow.stanford.edu!charlie
  4. From: charlie@leland.Stanford.EDU (Charlie Channel, Jr.)
  5. Subject: Re: reliable cars
  6. Message-ID: <1992Aug19.155734.1300@morrow.stanford.edu>
  7. Sender: news@morrow.stanford.edu (News Service)
  8. Organization: Stanford U
  9. References: <1992Aug18.220910.27207@linus.mitre.org> <1992Aug19.054125.28541@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1992Aug19.151437.23926@wuecl.wustl.edu>
  10. Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 15:57:34 GMT
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  13. In article <1992Aug19.151437.23926@wuecl.wustl.edu> gene@wucs1.wustl.edu (_Floor_) writes:
  14. >throttle quit responding. I suddenly realized I was out of fuel and had just
  15. >passed the station. I pulled over into the next parking lot, ran back to the
  16. >station, bought a 1 gallon fuel can, filled it up, ran back to the car,
  17. >poured it in, and it started right up! Then I just drove back to the
  18. >station and filled it up. Somehow, it didn't cause a problem to be out
  19. >of fuel!
  20.  
  21. That's because the injection pump is self priming.  NO need to worry
  22. about that anymore.
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