Trick to filling gas?

[hahuang65]

As some of you may know, I ran out of gas on the road last week... that event was the catalyst to me finding out the gas tank should be closer to 9.5 gallons, with about 1.5 gallons un-usable.

 

I was always under the assumption the tank was around 5 gallons, so this was great news to me.

I also found out that I was filling up the gas incorrectly... just cuz the nozzle shuts off doesn't mean that it's full.

I guess the size and shape of the tank makes the gas easily shut the nozzle off.

 

My dealer told me the trick was to fill it much more slowly.

I tried this today... I filled it until the nozzle shut off, then filled it more AS SLOWLY AS THE PUMP ALLOWED.

I filled it until it overflowed, and then verified that the fuel was indeed filling up the section between the flap and the gas cap... and if I open the flap, it wasn't flowing down into the tank.

 

The math is as follows:

When I ran out of gas, I got a 2 gallon jerry can to fill it up.

Then drove about 15 miles to a gas station, and filled it up 1 more gallon (it shut the nozzle off so I stopped).

Today, the total I was able to fill it up was 1.5 gallons.

 

That seems like I'm still just totaling around 5 gallons.

What is my dumb ass missing here?

 

Somewhat related note... I have the @BruceBe fuel gauge mod... it's always designated full tank historically when it's about 1/4 tank and I fill up roughly 4 gallons.

Edited 27 minutes ago by hahuang65