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Safari
Posts: 322
Join date: 2008-07-01
Age: 63
Location: Middletown, PA
 |  Subject: TJ Fuel Tank Thu Aug 20, 2009 3:36 pm | |
| My '05 Wrangler X has a 19 gallon tank, but it will only allow me to fill it to 14 gallons. I had the same situation with my YJ, but knocked the "tube" out and got to full capacity. I was told by one service manager that if I know that tube out of my TJ it will interfere with my emmissions controls and that my "check enginge" light will always be illuminated. Is there anyone out there that successfully "enlarged" the fuel tank on their TJ? |
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rockready
Posts: 228
Join date: 2008-07-01
Age: 28
Location: red lion pa
| | Subject: Re: TJ Fuel Tank Thu Aug 20, 2009 6:52 pm | |
| mine always fit 19 gallons in my 97. your light will turn on around 5 gallons left. plus it might drop to empty not to much time after the light turns on. mine does that. it shows i have no gas in my tank but yet i got about 4 to 5 gallons left. |
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JeeperX
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Posts: 649
Join date: 2008-07-01
Age: 39
Location: Forest Hill Md
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rockready
Posts: 228
Join date: 2008-07-01
Age: 28
Location: red lion pa
| | Subject: Re: TJ Fuel Tank Thu Aug 20, 2009 7:13 pm | |
| there was actually something like a recall or a bulliten on the fuel light and then the gage droping to nothing. mine has been changed i know at least 2 times before i owned it and it never fixed the problem |
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Safari
Posts: 322
Join date: 2008-07-01
Age: 63
Location: Middletown, PA
| | Subject: Re: TJ Fuel Tank Thu Aug 20, 2009 7:18 pm | |
| Are you suggesting that I drive around (close to a gas station and with a gollon in a can) until I run out of fuel and then see how much it takes to fill it up?!? |
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rockready
Posts: 228
Join date: 2008-07-01
Age: 28
Location: red lion pa
| | Subject: Re: TJ Fuel Tank Fri Aug 21, 2009 1:48 pm | |
| well not really saying to do that but it says you have a 19 gallon tank. so i guess figure out what your gas milage is and see how much room you got before empty or just fill up every 14 gallons |
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JeeperX
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Posts: 649
Join date: 2008-07-01
Age: 39
Location: Forest Hill Md
| | Subject: Re: TJ Fuel Tank Fri Aug 21, 2009 5:21 pm | |
| | Safari wrote: | | Are you suggesting that I drive around (close to a gas station and with a gollon in a can) until I run out of fuel and then see how much it takes to fill it up?!? |
Not really what I was suggesting either... If you do not see any dents in the tank I would assume that it is the gauge or sending unit, but if you REALLY are that bored and want to know that would be the way to find out. |
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chariotofmanliness
Posts: 239
Join date: 2008-12-01
Age: 42
Location: East Petersburg, PA
| | Subject: Re: TJ Fuel Tank Mon Aug 24, 2009 7:48 am | |
| sounds kinda like that one episode of seinfeld, where cramer wanted to see how far the car would go, before running out of gas
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yrflu
Posts: 170
Join date: 2009-07-20
Location: Annapolis, MD
| | Subject: Re: TJ Fuel Tank Mon Aug 24, 2009 8:01 am | |
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