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19. For my Suburban I was advised to keep the tank more than half full

Fri Jul 20, 2018, 05:23 PM

Jul 2018

The fuel pump burned out not long after I bought it (it was five years old then) and the mechanic told me that the fuel pump in that vehicle was cooled by the gas around it in the tank. If the tank is less than half full the fuel pump is not sufficiently cooled.

Since the danged truck has a forty gallon tank that means topping it off regularly when we use it. But it gets 13 mph whether we're driving it completely empty or the truck is full pulling a packed horse trailer, so I doubt that extra 240 pounds of gas make any difference!

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Genius! underpants Jul 2018 #45

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