ake wrote:Sender and fuel pickup are generally in the centre of the tank. So it won’t make any difference whether it is facing up hill or downhill, it will start drawing air all the same. The top of the sender is nearer the front but the float itself is nearer the centre
Given the difficulty in bleeding the fuel system on the old MK6, this situation should be avoided. Common sense would dictate this.
I can’t help but think that this is a troll post, designed purely to generate negative responses, so that the poster can then complain about the responses. This is clearly demonstrated by your accusing a moderator of using bad language when we all can see that he clearly did not, and your general inference that we are all stupid and just following what we are told, unlike you, the supremely intelligent being who knows that it’s all a conspiracy, and that the earth is flat.
Now this was indeed a useful comment, although, and not as a windup, in a long narrow tank, with the fuel pickup in the centre, there is indeed a lot of difference in fuel level as you tilt the tank up and down.
In my case i deliberately pumped the tank down to ¼ tank so when i added additives to help clear the exhaust and cylinders, the concenteation of additives would be higher. And since there is a lot of crap in the tank, would be easier to flush/clean the tank/fuel. And then due to where i have available to work on it, it is either uphill a bit or downhill. Then add on ramps at back or front, and it slopes more. I did in effect run low on fuel then (in terms of starting to test etc) even though there was ¼ tank. Maybe due to fuel gauge error it is nearer to ⅛: i am going to check that. But should still not run out.
But i knew there was going to be air in system after renewing some hoses and cleaning injectors. And was very hard to bleed. Then i saw that at times i was sucking air from the tank. Which seemed strange if it did in fact have ¼, or even ⅛, and was parked sloped up.
Sure was easy to solve then: add more fuel and re-bleed. But i really didn’t think that would have happened.
And yes, i am not impressed at a lot of the design on these things. In 2004, this was a new van, and Ford has been making vehicles for close to 100 years: no excuse for some of the bad design done on it.