<VV> Fw: Electric pump foibles

[J R Read]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J R Read" <hmlinc at sbcglobal.net>
To: <Sethracer at aol.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2012 4:56 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> Electric pump foibles


> Well it DID happen on my '96 Blazer...
>
> When I loaned it to someone else who ran it dry.
>
> Later, JR
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <Sethracer at aol.com>
> To: <FrankCB at aol.com>; <wfcc at mediacombb.net>; <virtualvairs at corvair.org>; 
> <BobHelt at aol.com>
> Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2012 1:26 PM
> Subject: <VV> Electric pump foibles
>
>
>> That is why I love the English language. There are so many ways to read
>> something.  One other note - for those of us who have those newfangled 
>> cars
>> with in-tank pumps. If you do manage to run it dry, do not keep trying to 
>> get
>> the last bit of fuel out of the tank to make it to a gas station. The
>> in-tank electric pump is designed to be cooled by the surrounding fuel in 
>> the
>> tank, and the fuel going through it. If run in the air, and with no fuel
>> going  through, the pump can fail in as little a one minute running time. 
>> Don't
>> ask me if it happened to my 96 Camaro a bunch of years ago. - Seth 
>> Emerson
>>
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