I have run out of gas in my STIHL many times!!!

 

I was following a coworker on I35 in northern Iowa one Friday night about 9pm... she was driving a 1989 Ford 15 passenger van. I was behind her in my car. She had gotten about 2 minutes ahead of me. Suddenly I look to my side and I am passing her on the road. She had ran it out of gas. She had kids in the van and I had kids in my car. I could not turn around due to a divided highway and was to far away before I realized what had happened. I tried calling and her cell phone had died. The gas station I drove to in the next town was closed and did not take credit cards at the pump. I drove to the local bar down the street and someone at the bar lived next to the gas station owner. He got the owner to come to his station, and sell me a can and some gas. Then I went back to push the van off the road to put the gas in (she had not even made it all the way off the road). Fun night. Her response when I got to her was that the van did not have a display that told how many miles the van was to empty like her mother's mini van. We were running a church youth group on our way to a ski weekend in Minnesota.

 

Thanks, now we know where the needle pegs at real empty. the last time I ran out of gas was 1989, and I just plain forgot I needed to get gas.

 

I have an old 87 chev van, The gas guage dies not work. I drive with a gas can in the back storage area ( I built it to hold the junk). The van does the sputter about 2-5 minutes before running out. So I have time to pull over and fuel, but most times I just randomly fill it up.

It is my ugly load hauler as it has a roof rack for lumber and it does the dump duty.

 

A buddy of mines gas guage is broke in his 95 chevy truck. So he usually just drives x amount of miles and fills up. Well one day he ripped the y pipe off his exhaust manifold and rode around for a week before he could get it fixed, lol. He ran out of gas in front of the police station. The gas milage changed DRAMATICALLY without an exhaust. lol.

 

I see everyone has chimed-in what a silly thing to do this was...
... but I will echo the point of changing your fuel filter for all the gook in the bottom of the tank that you may have churned-up when the fuel was low and really sloshing around. I learned that one the hard way, too.

Also - Never, never, never run a fuel injected engine or a vehicle with an 'in tank' fuel pump out of fuel. Stop and add a couple gallons if you must before it happens... but never let it happen.
These modern systems use the fuel to cool and lubricate those fast moving and finely machined parts. Running them dry will damage them very quickly.
Hope you didn't hurt your rig.

 

x2!

 

LMFAO... cracked me up...