Fuel Tank Size

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Sat Sep 29, 2007 3:18 pm

I did a run to Mt hotham the other day and on the way back into benders from bright i probabily used about 26ltrs, i had 4 ltrs left in the tank when we filled up... The fuel needle was on the E for most of this trip...

Did a total of 800km, used 1 full tank, put in 18ltrs from gerry and that was all it used.

Cheers

Bennie

Bumpty · Post by **Bumpty** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 8:26 am

haha brilliant ks... actually thats quite a lot!

Was driving my car around home and then it chugged to a stop on only 450kms, then my sis filled it up for my bday and so i wasn't able to start another accurate test.

ea82_beast · Post by **ea82_beast** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 5:14 pm

If i put in 15L/$20 the needle goes to 1/2 but goes down a lot qucker. If i put 25L in it still goes to half. I found as well that from full, the first half goes a lot quicker. The other day it had just touched the top of the red, so I put in 10L exactly to test consumption and I got 108Kms before it got to the same spot.
http://www.greenhouse.gov.au/cgi-bin/tr ... cleid=2668
What sort of consumption are people getting?

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 10:19 am

Okay, so i slipped into adelaide for the weekend just gone. 1 tank, 739km, needle just on the lower end of the "E". Now the L has a 60L tank, i fill right up to the nozzle. 65 litres later i had a full tank.

On the return trip i filled up in ballarat as it was cheaper than in my pero's home town (about an hour and a half away). Got 55 litres to 627km. Pretty happy with that.

So basically, you can fit more than 60 ltrs in an L's tank.

Cheers

Bennie

Bumpty · Post by **Bumpty** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 3:22 pm

And if you can drive like our ol' mate here, you can nearly reach 750kms for a tank... WOWO!

Did you do that little experiment to Adelaide in your sig^ car?

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 1:38 pm

Here's one L series tank that isn't 60L capacity... well, not anymore.

And here's how you do it, not concerntrating proplerly

Cheers

Bennie

Smokey · Post by **Smokey** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 2:20 pm

El_Freddo wrote:Here's one L series tank that isn't 60L capacity... well, not anymore.

Nice one Bennie, looks like it/u stopped just in time before the diff coped it

fredsub · Post by **fredsub** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 5:10 pm

El_Freddo wrote:Here's one L series tank that isn't 60L capacity... well, not anymore.

Bennie

my poor departed looked like that too.....probably accounted for nearly 10lt:mrgreen:

Bumpty · Post by **Bumpty** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 7:21 pm

oooo! Thats gotta hurt, how quick were you going?

It's gotta be asked hehe.

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 10:29 am

Probabily at about walking pace. I didn't realise i was on the rock and had made a few attempts at climbing the hill again, probabily didn't help the tank.

The front left and rear right where holding all the weight so the other two wheels were free spinning...

Its all about concerntration in ALL directions when in the sticks (at all times when in the car actually).

Bennie

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 11:47 pm

while on 60 litre tanks , my L sedan was on the empty mark, so i go to fill it up for the first time (with 98 ) since the big clean out and new pump. It took 44 litres , so 16 lite reserve to avoid killing the pump every time we try to run them dry and get the most out a 'tank'.

Post by **Alex** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 3:01 pm

El_Freddo wrote:Here's one L series tank that isn't 60L capacity... well, not anymore.

And here's how you do it, not concerntrating proplerly

Cheers

Bennie

you now only have a 30L tank

alex

Post by **Alex** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 3:02 pm

i refuse to believe an l-series will hole 60L EVER! maybe 50

alex

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 3:53 pm

I got 65 litres into my tank on a trip to Adelaide, 739km to 65ltrs, i was pretty happy

Bennie

PeeJay · Post by **PeeJay** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 4:06 pm

Best I've managed is 58

Matatak · Post by **Matatak** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 8:46 pm

mines definetely 50 in my MY

Bumpty · Post by **Bumpty** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 6:51 pm

overspilled today at just 50ls - 93lib

Busdriver · Post by **Busdriver** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 8:17 pm

Best ive got is 58 litres, but remember it is called a GAUGE! Thats just another word for guess really.

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 11:53 pm

My L sedan fuel gauge just above the empty red took just 44 litres again - giving me 25.9 mpg after some town driving, highway, up hill, down dale (dirt) and turbo demonstration. It then sat at FULL for next 104 km, at 107 it fell to the foot of the F in FULL. If it has a range of 500km, it is pretty deceptive for the first hundred km's , must be for the remainder too

Matatak · Post by **Matatak** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 11:57 pm

hmmm speaking about ranges. my fancy dancy digitial dash reckons i have a range of up at 700 sometimes after i just fill up.

it is stupid tho
ill probly average around 400 lol