Fuel Pump

[Max Hoepli]

How much gasoline should there be at least in the gasoline tank to prevent
any damage?

Max
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cody Forbes" <cody at 5000tq.com>
To: "Dan DiBiase" <d_dibiase at yahoo.com>; <quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: 15, May 2006 19:22
Subject: Re: Fuel Pump


> Dan DiBiase wrote:
> > Saw this comment on a Google Audi group -
> >
> >  "The fuel pump motor is cooled by the gas in the tank. When it gets
> >   near empty the pump is no longer immersed in fuel and tends to heat
> > up and sometimes burn out."
> >
> >  I would not think that anything that 'heats up' or 'burns out' would
> > be a good thing in the fuel tank....?!
> >
> >  Dan D
> >  '04 A4 1,8Tq MT-6 (with a full tank of gas!)
>
> Thats 100% true. I've even seen the effects of one that runs dry. My
silver
> 5k was sitting with the CIS fuel distributor off for repairs and the fuse
> panel somehow got wet and shorted the FP relay during a rain storm. While
I
> was asleep in bed the pump turned on and pumped the tank dry since the
lines
> were off, then the pump went up in smoke. I still have it, all of the
wiring
> inside the tank is melted, and even the plastic bracket for the pump was
> reduced to plastic slag. I'll take pics once I get some new batteries for
my
> digi-cam.
>
> -Cody Forbes
> http://www.5000tq.com
> '86 5ktq
> '86 5k-t-q -Parts
> '86 5k-t-q
> '87 5ktq - Fast.
>
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