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Just this morning had a 'debate' with about 10 women around a coffee table in our office which went something like this.
One of them said, "My partner ran out of petrol the other day in the car and it messed up the engine because of all the cr@p that got sucked up from the bottom of the tank." Everyone else in the room nodded and said something along the lines of, "Yeah, that always happens."
I stated that the fuel pick up point in your car's tank is always at the bottom of the tank in amongst the debris, even when the tank is full up. If it was at the top, you'd run out of petrol as soon as you drove off the forecourt! So, how can it suck up any more debris when you run dry than it would when there is fuel in the tank. The pickup pipe is hardly going to hoover up every last morsel of dust in the tank from every corner which could be a foot or more away from the pick up point.
I also stated that every car I've ever know has a fuel filter before the carb, which is usually pretty cheap and easy to change for new (i.e. hardly a 'knackered' engine job), and the thing that is more likely to cause the motor to run like a bag of spanners is air in the line from the empty tank, not debris.
The girls just hid behind the idea that that's what all the mechanics tell them, so it must be right, and I'm not a mechanic...... so there!
Is this an urban myth? It's a conspiracy theory for sure!
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One of them said, "My partner ran out of petrol the other day in the car and it messed up the engine because of all the cr@p that got sucked up from the bottom of the tank." Everyone else in the room nodded and said something along the lines of, "Yeah, that always happens."
I stated that the fuel pick up point in your car's tank is always at the bottom of the tank in amongst the debris, even when the tank is full up. If it was at the top, you'd run out of petrol as soon as you drove off the forecourt! So, how can it suck up any more debris when you run dry than it would when there is fuel in the tank. The pickup pipe is hardly going to hoover up every last morsel of dust in the tank from every corner which could be a foot or more away from the pick up point.
I also stated that every car I've ever know has a fuel filter before the carb, which is usually pretty cheap and easy to change for new (i.e. hardly a 'knackered' engine job), and the thing that is more likely to cause the motor to run like a bag of spanners is air in the line from the empty tank, not debris.
The girls just hid behind the idea that that's what all the mechanics tell them, so it must be right, and I'm not a mechanic...... so there!
Is this an urban myth? It's a conspiracy theory for sure!
:spam:
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