With the cost of fuel and stories of fuel theft rising again, I found myself briefly wondering how the scrotes know they have a full tank worth stealing (do they still siphon it ?) ? Or do they just take pot luck.
I can manage quite easily with 1/4 tank most weeks.
AH THE GOOD OLD DAYS MY mUSTANG DOESN'T HAVE A LOCKING CAP ......s*it
Looks like more recent Windows versions have lost the ability to disable caps-lock. I'm sure I could do that in XP, but it appears impossible in Win10. Easy enough on my Mac, tho.
I've heard of increased fuel thefts in the context of drive-offs from forecourts, not people syphoning from vehicles
The original VW Beetle didnt have a fuel gauge but a reserve tank accessed by a lever on the floor beside the clutch pedal. ISTR the Triumph Herald had a reserve tank accessed via a lever in the boot. Those were the days
Yes, my G reg (68/69) Herald had that. A lever on top of the fuel tank which was at one side of the boot. Very useful when the fuel gauge sender failed - as it did!
Modern cars have a anti-syphoning mechanism inbuilt to the tank or filling tube.
Not much use against a screwdriver punched into the bottom of the tank.
Tim
The high fuel price means I can easily increase the value of my car by 25%!
Triumph didn't have a reserve tank, but a pick-up tube in the main tank that could be turned. In the normal position, the bottom of the bent pick-up was higher in the tank than in the reserve position, giving about a gallon of reserve fuel.
I don't think that any normal cars had a specific reserve tank, but that they all used something like a moveable pick-up or simply two pick-ups at different heights and a valve to either select between the pickups or just close off the higher one. The latter is what I have done on my kit-car.
Don't most cars have an anti-syphon trap in the filler neck?
Rover had a convenient pull lever beneath the dash. But it didn't reset automatically when you filled up. My low fuel warning light does.
Yes. Jaguar used to have twin tanks - one in each rear wing - with twin fuel pumps on a changeover switch.
I was (circa 1988) driving up the A1 when I noticed a smell of petrol. It got stronger, then there was a dark trail on the tarmac, then a car with a cloud behind it. I overtook and pulled it over. It was a Jaguar, with twin fuel tanks, ISTR that there was a pump to move fuel from the
2nd tank to the main, but the float switch on the main had failed.
Mini Coopers had twin tanks, but with a balance pipe.
Was that ever a factory fitted option? I know that there were after-market kits to add a second tank to minis.
Tim
Just to the 'S' IIRC - my 63 Cooper had one.
I don't think so - it was S version only.
Not sure. I worked in a filling station for a few years, and all the Coopers seemed to have one. It may have been a fad round my way!
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