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Sun, 09 February 2014 09:54

corleyw

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Registered: June 2007
Location: Battle Ground, WA

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My one and only happened just last month on the infamous California Grapevine. During the trip south from Washington, one of the fuel gauge senders had crapped out, registerring full all the time (Open wire?). So, I thought I had one good gauge. It registerred just over half full as we hit the bottom of the grape vine, on a hot (75) January day. I turned off the A/C, and determined I'd fill up after reaching Gorman, rather than carry the additional weight of the fuel up the hill. About 1/3 of the way up the hill, typical vapor lock symtoms started up. I pulled off to the side of the road, and let it cool a bit, and noticed that now the "good" fuel gauge read less than 1/4, Bad news... Only then did we calculate that either we had either gotten about 14mpg, or it really was only about 1/4 tank left.

Now, once you start up the grapevine, there is no turning back. No turn arounds, and it's all a steep up hill ahead. After cooling a bit, we headed on up the hill, thinking that we might be in trouble. A little later, it started coughing again, but now there was no place to pull over. Finally, on it's last gasp, we managed to get it all off the pavement, except that the back corner was still sticking out about 1 foot. Trouble was, we were also about to tip over, with the verge sloping away. At 1/4 tank full, there was no way for the pickup to now reach the fuel, so we never got it started again.

After a 7 hour wait on the AAA+ tow truck (don't ask, that's a long story), we got towed to Gorman, where it started and ran fine the next morning. I then installed a new mech. fuel pump plus an electric backup, and we won't drive with any gauge lower than 3/4 full until I can drop the tanks and fix the gauges.

Winter fuel blend and high temps just don't go together well, which started our chain of events.

Corley '76 Glenbrook 29 other vehicles

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