Try going up a steep hill when the gas is low. Although you can suck the
fuel out with the car level, steep hills move the gas to the back of the
tank and the car will sputter. My first thought was , the nearest gas
station was 15 miles away. Once back on semi level ground, the car had
enough gas to get me there.
Jerry
-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Seigrist
Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 6:31 PM
To: S and T Miller
Cc: healeys@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Fuel tank
That's because the pickup pipe for the fuel is located in the bottom of the
tank in the drainage pan recess, meaning if you run the fuel out with the
fuel pump there will be very little if any fuel left in the tank.
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 4:49 AM, S and T Miller
<stmiller96@hotmail.com>wrote:
> With all the talk about non-ethanol fuel, I decided to drain my fuel tank
> in
> the 1957 today. I don't drive the 1957 over the winter very much so the
> fuel
> will remain unused for a few months. I connected a 3 foot rubber fuel
> line
> to
> the output on the front float bowl and and let the fuel pump, pump it into
> a
> fuel can. Once the pump started sucking air I gave the car a few shakes
> to
> get the last bits of fuel. Thinking there would be some fuel left in the
> bottom of the tank, I removed the drain bolt with a drain pan handy. To
> my
> surprise I only got maybe a "baby food jar" sized amount of fuel. I even
> stuck a screw driver through the drain hole to make sure it wasn't just
> clogged.
> I was very surprised that the fuel tank/ pump actually sucks almost all
> the
> fuel out of the tank when it runs dry. Now I am going to put some
> non-ethanol
> fuel in for the winter.
>
> The Millers
> "British Car Nuts"
>
> 1957 Austin Healey 100-6 BN4 35299
>
> 1959 Austin Healey 100-6 BN4 77219
>
> 1964 MGB 40841
>
> 1960 Austin Healey Bugeye Sprite AN5 34351
>
> "Always drive them, but remember each drive in an antique car is a test
> drive."
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