Moral of the story: Always back up a hill. :)
> Jim -
>
> If the gas tank was less than 1/3 full and your cruise up the hill was
> a long, somewhat steep and steady one... you simply ran out of gas.
> The fuel line pickup in the tank is in the front of the gas tank, so
> if you are heading up a long hill that is fairly steep ( say more than
> 3% grade), and you are evenly on the gas the whole time, the car will
> run out of gas because all the gas will be up against the back end of
> the tank. I've had this happen to me two or three times... but
> knowing it... once I heard the car stuttering I'd simply stomp on/pump
> the brake on and off fairly firmly, forcing gas into the front of the
> tank, and then voila... get enough gas to get to the top of the hill.
> the other option of course is, when you are on a hill, you can always
> use gravity to do a three point turn to face the car down hill, then
> that will also put gas in the front of the tank and get it started
> again.
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