When the gas gauge reads E it means it

[Sjordan]

8 minutes ago, psk256 said:

That was my thought. I get a light, chime, graphic screen and that's with 50 miles left for range displayed on the instrument panel.

He said he was towing motorcycles, may have thrown the distance to empty calculation off.

[redwngr]

3 hours ago, garagerog said:

I can't speak to modern diesels with electronic fuel pumps, but as an old farm boy familiar with the mechanical DI fuel pumps used on the old tractors, those for sure you didn't want to run out of fuel. Gravity feed on the fuel through 2 huge filters before the diesel got to the mechanical pump. No fuel gauge and the fuel pressure gauge was located on the pump, not on the dash. So basically you needed to know tank capacity and gph usage, some elementary math, and a safety factor to know when to fuel up. Also those were before glow plugs, so iH was start on gas and switch to diesel, Cat used a gas pony motor, and I believe AC started on ether, no joy in any case. Sweet spot for diesels were the modern ones before DEF and DPF's.

I've primed my share of old diesels with mechanical injection pumps and won't argue at all about the mess created when getting air out of injector pump and then, cracking injector lines to get air from them.

 

But that's has not the style of fuel system that today's pickups use -- and it's not the method required to prime one.

  

 

 

 

Edited July 20, 2020 by redwngr

[Car Dude]

19 hours ago, Sjordan said:

He said he was towing motorcycles, may have thrown the distance to empty calculation off.

Definitely didn't make it 50 miles maybe half that.