5spd surprise

[davidkerryedwards]

Yes, I was going to do that eventually. What happened was the
previous owner told me the tank was full, I drove 500 miles and the
gauge had not even dropped to the 'F' mark. Not wanting to rely on
the gauge and risk running out of fuel, I added 70 gallons and it went
up(really down) past the little button. I shone a flashlight into the
tank but I couldn't tell how close it was to full.
So, I haven't driven it enough yet to start with a full tank and
carefully calculate the consumption and correlate it with the gauge.
What I'm really wondering is whether it's worth pulling the float
mechanism from the tank, cleaning and checking it. But, with a tank
this huge, it hardly seems worth it. Just fill up every couple of
thousand miles.

Kerry
82 FC 35
Denver

--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Scott" wrote:
>
> Kerry, sounds great about your coach and the tranny. Generally,
> most "suprises" in a BB do not work like that.
>
> YOUR COMMENT:
> It seems to be
> working, just that full is past full, and even past the little button
> below the 'F'. If it does this, does 'E' still mean empty or is empty
> now 1/2?
>
> Well it seems quite simple to me that if you take your fuel tank
> capacity, and the guage reading, and then fill the tank with diesel
> and check how many gallons it took to fill, you would have your
> answer! In other words if you have a 300 gal tank, guage reads 1/2
> and you stop to fill up and it takes 150 gals then the guage is
> probably close to correct! In addition, if you track your mileage and
> divide the gallons used by the miles then you get your MPG! Do you
> really get 10mpg? It takes a long while for my needle to move off the
> full mark, provided I have a full tank!
>
> Again, probably slept thru science class but not during creative
> problem solving!!!
>
> ScottB
> 86FC
> SC
>
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>
> > Took my Bird for it's first cruise from Denver to Amarillo to visit
> > Palo Duro Canyon and Alibates Flint Quarries. After first thinking
> I
> > was just losing my mind and not paying close enough attention to
> > shifting patterns as we climbed hills, I carefully counted the
> shifts.
> > It has a 5 spd transmission and not a 4 spd. What a pleaant
> > surprise. The Allison 5 spd has a lockup torque convertor which
> means
> > the previous owners insistence that it got a steady 10mpg is
> > believable. This means that not only does it have a new motor, it
> has
> > a new transmission. Discovering this made up for the fact that
> > Amarillo had record low temperatures and snow during our visit.
> > Fuel gauge is reading way past full. Is this typical? It seems to
> be
> > working, just that full is past full, and even past the little
> button
> > below the 'F'. If it does this, does 'E' still mean empty or is
> empty
> > now 1/2?
> >
> > Kerry
> > 82 FC 35
> > Denver
> >
>