See I have my nice SAAB 9000, same fundamental setup, fuel pump/sender
in a nice canister in the fuel tank. I regularly run the thing on
fumes with no fuel pump in 150 k miles. To think that a modern
vehicle can trash a fuel pump by idling until it runs out of gas is ..
is... unthinkable. Something is rotten in Denmark..
.Lester
On Mar 28, 2011, at 9:54 AM, David Riker wrote:
>
> snip
>
> PS, the fuel pump thing is very correct. If the fuel tank is never
> allowed to run below 1/4 tank, the fuel pumps will regularly out
> last the vehicle. Run the tank empty, and we've accidentally burnt
> them up in new cars idling on the lot :O
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