Single fuel tank

[mrzigazaga]

billynobrakes said:

It seems even worse on the Gredge takes forever to fill up but gauge only ever reads 3/4 full I am tempted to have a can of petrol in the boot till it runs out to see how far it will go before I run out if that makes sense

Not good to run them empty....Thing is even full up you only have one sender...It might be that the float doesnt have enough room to be at full travel thus not giving a full reading, I know the arm can be bent a tad so that it reads a higher volume but you would need to calibrate it with the lowest point, maybe its set so that when its at its lowest point then there is still 1/4 in each tank...??

3/4 of a tank has got me to the fest and half way back including the driving while im there...I then need to put £25 back in to take it back to where it was...Total = £70 of fuel @ 280 miles...including heavy traffic for 50 odd miles....

[adam quantrill]

Mine runs out a couple of times a year and doesn't do any harm.

I keep a METAL gallon tank in the boot. But well away from the exhaust side.

My gauge reads full when full to full - 1 galllon, and reads empty when empty-ish, but the last gallon is tricky to judge. Sometimes I can get an idea if I corner hard left and the gauge will come up a few mm then I know I have a gallon left.

I get 45l in on a fill from empty minimum, and I did 49-ish litres today (because I put the spare gallon in and counted the extra I put back in the gallon)

[eesbad]

That's the thing - yesterday was 32 litres (£42) from an indicated empty to brimmed and showing full on the gauge. So at 20mpg (ha ha!), that's only 180 miles. It's 150 miles for me to Wedgefest... Tight on one fill.

[billynobrakes]

Mark understand what you saying but running out of petrol should not cause any problems if all the filters are good so no ste can be sucked up and even if it did which is highly unlikely as most tanks the feed pipe is normally not right at the bottom of the tank all that will happen is the engine will cut out being starved of fuel and at least I will know how much further I can go without worrying about running out of petrol, I would use the complete running out as a gauge to know when I need to find a petrol station

[stevoj]

I was thinking more of, why wouldn't this work?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/In-Line-Fuel-Tank-Breath...

[adam quantrill]

Not a good idea I think. The whole point of the existing tube is to let fuel out if it expands too much before it gets out of the filler cap.

If it drips out the back that's less of a problem than if it gets to the top of the filler neck, seeps past the cap then oozes down the side of the car. It will spoil the paintwork and the stripes, if installed.

[mrzigazaga]

adam quantrill said:

Not a good idea I think. The whole point of the existing tube is to let fuel out if it expands too much before it gets out of the filler cap.

If it drips out the back that's less of a problem than if it gets to the top of the filler neck, seeps past the cap then oozes down the side of the car. It will spoil the paintwork and the stripes, if installed.

What about when its coming out of the overflow and the filler cap and is pouring down the side ...and I mean pouring...There is a gallon of super soaked into an ancient Belgium forest...(Sorry Frank )

[stevoj]

adam quantrill said:

Not a good idea I think. The whole point of the existing tube is to let fuel out if it expands too much before it gets out of the filler cap.

If it drips out the back that's less of a problem than if it gets to the top of the filler neck, seeps past the cap then oozes down the side of the car. It will spoil the paintwork and the stripes, if installed.

But isn't that the point Adam; we would want to stop the fuel coming out as it is suppose to be just a breather no? After all even if you fill to the brim, by the time you leave the petrol station you'll have used a gallon anyway and plenty volume for expansion