Ran Out Of Fuel !

[maniekan]

hello everyone on SAU ive recently had a problem with my R32 skyline 1990 GTST

basically was travelling down the road to fill up my tank noticing my fuel gauge just before the empty line

was heading to the petrol station and it started to sputter, loss of power, starving for fuel.

While all this was happening i could see the petrol station 100m's ahead and i basically just made it while i had to turn a corner the car stopped, I gave it a bit of pedal to get it going and just made it to the station.

THE PROBLEM.... after i filled my tank with premium unleaded petrol like always it ran good for about 5mins then starting to run rough, missing coughing, got it around the corner from home and starting to sound like a rotary i had trouble starting the car whilst holding down the accelerator a bit it was sputtering so i basically left it where it stopped / came back 1 hour later, started sweet as. Got home and now has a miss to it, a bit of black smoke came out obviously because of previously giving it a bit of pedal to get home before it stopped. im now stuck on why it misses,

THE QUESTION: Would running out of fuel then filling up cause an injector to fail? , spark plug to burn out? air in the system (uncommon) lol

[(B1) MR_fanny]

by running dry and filling up you probably have disturbed sediment in teh tank and that has now been picked up and circulated through the system. try replacing your fuel filter to see if it helps. thats my assumption.

[Moodles2]

I think the same, theres gunk at the bottom of everyones fuel tank, fuel filter change should resolve the restriction caused by the gunk

[TALBO]

I would have thought that it wouldn't be fuel filter because you still need fuel pressure on the rail meaning if it was a blocked filter (not enough fuel pressure at rail) then the car would behave as before when you starved it of fuel.

I'm just guessing but I'm thinking you might have killed a plug, don't know why but maybe because it leaned out....?

[SECURITY]

you'll only find REALLY little dirt particles in your fuel tank. the stock fuel pump sock will stop close to 100% of these from entering your fuel system. i've done heaps of fuel pump installs and all of the fuel tanks were clean with no dirt whatsoever to be found.

your car sounding like a rotor is due to an ignition issue. as TALBO said you have probably rooted a spark plug - go through your coil packs and unplug one at a time (only having 1 coil pack unplugged each time) to see which cylinder isnt firing properly. the one where you unplug and has no effect on your rough idle is the problem. change that plug and go from there.

Edited April 5, 2009 by SECURITY

[tommo87]

hello everyone on SAU ive recently had a problem with my R32 skyline 1990 GTST

basically was travelling down the road to fill up my tank noticing my fuel gauge just before the empty line

was heading to the petrol station and it started to sputter, loss of power, starving for fuel.

While all this was happening i could see the petrol station 100m's ahead and i basically just made it while i had to turn a corner the car stopped, I gave it a bit of pedal to get it going and just made it to the station.

THE PROBLEM.... after i filled my tank with premium unleaded petrol like always it ran good for about 5mins then starting to run rough, missing coughing, got it around the corner from home and starting to sound like a rotary i had trouble starting the car whilst holding down the accelerator a bit it was sputtering so i basically left it where it stopped / came back 1 hour later, started sweet as. Got home and now has a miss to it, a bit of black smoke came out obviously because of previously giving it a bit of pedal to get home before it stopped. im now stuck on why it misses,

THE QUESTION: Would running out of fuel then filling up cause an injector to fail? , spark plug to burn out? air in the system (uncommon) lol

hmmm hard question, either broken fuel sump, or injectors misfiring, maybe throw some injector cleaner in, and suss out the sump still got problems might need to cheak ur fuel pump.

[paulr33]

mythbusters ahoy

the pump is ... on the bottom of the tank

so regardless of how much fuel is in the tank

it sucks from the bottom with a sock (filter)

and there is an inline fuel filter before the fuel rail

so running empty, does no harm

[Kinks]

theres gunk at the bottom of everyones fuel tank

I read it on the internet, it must be true.

I ran my R31 bone dry, 61 litres into a 60 litre tank and it ran perfectly afterwards. I even replaced the fuel pump in that car and had the wise idea of using some foam rubber to stop the pump rattling around... and the foam wasn't petrol resistant so it disintegrated into powdery mush. Never had a problem with how it ran despite that shit floating around in my tank (never cleaned it, the fuel pump pre-filter strained it out I guess!).

Myth busted.