V8 troubles

[Tony Hoffman]

Back in about 1991, when I was still a newbie to mechanics, I was working
at an independent shop. We got this Dasher station wagon in, 1.6L CIS FI.
Wouldn't run. Guage showed half tank, pump ran, no fuel to injectors. After
spending about 3 hours chasing my tail, my boss came over to the car. It
was up on the lift. He tapped on the tank with the head of a screwdriver,
said "sounds empty to me". Moral of the story, I don't believe the guage
anymore, either. Lesson learned!

Tony

On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 2:24 PM, 2Doxies <doubldz at aol.com> wrote:

> Oh boy. It's hard to admit this and I have to say this has never happened
> before....
>
> Mike, you were right, I was out of gas! This is mortifying. I could blame
> it on being blond but I don't want to offend anyone on the list ;) I could
> blame it on the electronics in the dash not being 100% on the money most of
> the time. At best it's unreliable. Usually it at least tells me when I have
> 2 miles left in the gas tank. This time, it didn't or I didn't notice, my
> bad.
>
> That said, I'm greatly relieved that it was an $8 fix (the can of gas) and
> I could do it myself, LOL.
>