Well, yeah. But this is beside the point of my post... I admitted it probably
wouldn't cause any immediate damage and I sure hope whoever engineered the
piece took into account that somebody might *accidentally* run out of fuel.
My point was, why would you want to do this in the first place? Secondarily,
since the piece was engineered to rely on fuel submersion to function on a
long-term basis, I still contend running your tank dry is not good for the unit
in general.
Tom
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Subject: Re: Re[2]: DML: milage
Author: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net> at smtpout
Date: 2/21/00 2:03 PM
If you run it dry you aren't sucking any "crud" through the system. The fuel
pump has a screen on it to keep all the stuff in the tank that shouldn't go
through the system. It's true that it relies on the fuel for lubrication, but
if you do it once or twice it won't hurt anything. The engineers have this
kind of stuff in mind when they design things. If you were designing
something that transfered fuel from a tank to an engine wouldn't you be sure
that it was ok if it weren't recieving fuel?
Aaron
'99 RC V6 4X2
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