Cars, etc.

[Id_Jit]

RD, I’m not trying to be a smartazz…
But, how much fuel is in the tank?
Is it parked on an incline?

Many years ago both my wife and one of her sisters, within a few days, ran their vehicles out of gas as they were warming them up (winter mornings).
“Sisters are close in heart… Even when far apart!”…
In that case, they were ~105 miles apart.


A few years ago, on a 90 mile road trip in mid-December, I was driving my wife’s ’95 Safari Van to a family gathering. As we approached the destination, it started cutting out. Lots of gas in the tank. We made it to town and I chose to drive on a service road paralleling the highway. Then it died. Fuel Pump… No Noise... I must have been living right back then, because when I got out to scratch my head, a tow-truck pulled up behind us asking if we needed a tow. Yup! He towed the van to my mother-in-law’s, and then drove us to the hall where the Doo was being held. A son and I borrowed the mother-in-law's car to get home for work on Monday.


Back in the ‘60’s, when mechanical fuel pumps were the norm, a mechanic I knew wasted hours troubleshooting on a vehicle with a 1/4 tank of gas on the gage. Finally, he dropped the tank and pulled out the gas pickup/fuel level sender.
The fuel pickup tube had broken off around the 1/4 tank level. He threw the unit across the shop only to find that there was not a replacement in parts stock. He had to retrieve it, clean it off, and replace it until they got a new one in stock. <g>
I doubt this is your problem though…

Id

P.S.
I’ve read that it is not a good idea to run a vehicle with an electric fuel pump below 1/8 (or a bit more) of a tank full.
The reasoning is that the fuel helps cool the electric fuel pump as the pump is usually immersed in the fuel.
Heat kills stuff.