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Ran out of fuel in my diesel pickup this morning.called a neighbor to rescue me,while on the phone,remembered that I had some fuel in a barrel in the truck!DUH...Airhead.....!Pumped some in......back in business.
 
I found that when I ran out of fuel, I was usually the farthest I possible could be to the shop. Even though I had an ATV to get back to the tractor with the fuel... I still had to walk back to where the tractor was later to pick up the ATV.
 
I ran out of fuel once in a truck with a full tank of fuel.Filled up both tanks before I left to deliver a used truck to Toronto_On the 401 The truck started to quit.Ran out of fuel.The tanks did not switch over from one tank to the other.So there I sat on the side of the highway out fuel with a full tank on the other side.I walked along the ditch and found a empty windsheild fluid container and went back to truck.Opened the hood found a hose for the washer tank or something and ripped it off,Syphoned a couple of gallons from one tank to the jug .Tried to start the truck but by the fuel filter filled and it started to kick I was running out of battery.Just as I was about to start walking a tow truck came along and gave me a boost.Told him what happened and he said have a good day and left.I tracked him down later and dropped off some cash for him. You never know when you might need him again. don't feel to bad about no fuelit can happen at any time.
 
Not exactly the same thing but I got my Jeep stuck on the farm in some thinned planted pines. Limited turning areas. Walked back to the pole barn fired up the tractor and promptly got it stuck. Scratching my head I remembered the portable WINCH I had purchased for just such an event!!! Walked back again, carried the winch (not very heavy) out to the jeep, got it out in 5 minutes but had to get help to get the 2020 unstuck. I keep the winch in the jeep now.
 
One nice summer evening, I decided to go on a moonlight tractor ride. James was busy in the shop and didn't want to go, so I set out by myself. The moon was full and so bright you didn't need the headlights.

This was 2007 which had been a wet year and the bahaia in the pasture was nearly waist tall because it had been too wet to cut and bale.

I got just across the dam to the pond when my JD 48A sputtered to a stop. Out of gas.

I was not happy about walking back to the shop at night through waist deep grass for gas.
 
Not to top anyone but my stepson who is living with us in Ohio temporarily I hope but is an assistant baseball coach got a call from the head coach that was on a fishing vacation in North Dakota and ran out of gas in the middle of a lake stranded and couldn"t raise anyone by cell so my SS had to call someone on the LL to try and rescue him. It worked and all is well. What ------ the HC off was it was the best fishing he"d ever seen.
 
I've run the S-10 out of gas five times that I can remember, maybe a couple of times more. The gauge works and it's clearly visible in front of me, I just don't seem to pay attention to it. About the third or fourth time it was a half mile from home so I walked home for gas. A neighbor came up on me and stopped to give me a lift but I thanked him and then told him the walk might jolt me into watching the gauge better. NOT! Jim
 
I make a bet with myself now whenever I have to walk home, whether it's because I've run out of fuel or I had to take a tractor to a field away from home and walk back for something else, to see if I can make it home before somebody stops to give me a ride. I rarely make it home on foot and I always bless my parents for buying this farm in this out of the way corner of the world.
 
In the eighties when money was kind of tight. I was driving an old 1953 Chev truck back and forth to work. The guage had been broke forever. I just kept a five gallon can in the back. I would just run out and then pour in my can, plus a few teaspoons into the carb.,and away you go. Worked great all winter. In the spring I could not keep the wife from using it in the lawn mower. I did a lot of walking then.
 
Both the suction and return lines come from the top of both saddle tanks on my FL service truck and each then tees turning the four lines into two single lines. The theory is that the fuel system is supposed pick up and return evenly into both tanks, so they didn't think to include, nor make it possible to install, a crossover line at the bottom of the tanks. Twice I've been sitting on a hill with nearly 1/4 tank in both sides and the upper tank either got heated by the sun and built pressure or simply self siphoned into the lower tank. Not a bad deal you'd think but even with one tank having fuel the system still picks up air from the other and runs dry. That's not a huge problem since you can pull and plug the lines on the upper tank and run on the other side (if you happen to have the right hydraulic plugs on the truck). The big problem is when the engine is a Series 50 Detroit where the injectors are under the valve covers and therefore aren't accessible to bleed. Talk about a MAJOR PITA to get a system bleed and the enine restarted...
 
Once in my last S-10 I put a couple bottles of rubbing alcohol in in order to get to a gas station. I was close enough that I could see the gas station, but they didn't have a gas can to loan or sell.

I've never run out of gas in my current S-10 (200,000+ miles).
 
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