Fuel pickup problem

G'day Trevor,

An easier way to see how much fuel is left in you tank is when the warning light comes on pull into a servo an fill up. You know that your tank holds 63 litres, so if you put in 55 litres you know that there is 8 litres left in your tank. Keep a record of each time you fill and how many litres you put in you'll soon get an average fuel consumption in km's per litre and you'll then know that when the light comes on you have on average 8 litres left (4 to be safe) and that you get on average 9 km's per litre. This gives you 72 km's before you run dry (which you don't want to do) or 36 km's to find you local servo.

I hope you get my drift. I have a spreadsheet that I use if you want I can email it to you?

I did read in archived forum post when doing a search on rodeos before buying my triton td, that the model after yours the RA they increased the number of litres before the warning light come to the other end of the extreme due to the number of complaints similar to yours. I know my triton on average the light comes on with about 15 litres left in the tank.

Hi Trevor,

I have the same model Rodeo.

I often run until the fuel light comes on, which is usually around 650-660 kms and fill up on about 56-57 litres. I have done around 52000km and fuel consumption of around 9l/100km is constant.

What I do do, is every 5000km or so put in a bottle of injector cleaner. This seems to keep everything running smoothly.

I hope this helps.

Anthony

Hi Trevor

I had a similar problem with an old Commodore. It would start coughing just below a quarter on the gauge. It turned out to be a ding in the base of the fuel tank which interfered wit the fuel pickup.
Just a thought.

Mike