[mikesride]

The lady friend and I decide after a day of running around that we would stop and pick up a coffee and enjoy the sunshine for a bit. We just run to the local McD's as we both like the coffee and this one has a nice patio overlooking a little park. The car makes a little "wine" while sitting at a red light and dies!!!! Starts up right again and gets us to the coffee spot....as soon as we get home I say I will check into it.
We enjoy our coffee and head home...but "Little Red" will have nothing to do with it!!! Fires, sputters and dies. We enjoy a nice walk home.
The "father in law" helps me tow her home later that afternoon and we dig into her...she has half a tank of fuel. Check for spark, all good, no air intake obstruction so the culprit must be fuel!!!! No fuel pressure at the accumulator...we start working our way forward....to the relays...the ignition switch.....the fuel pump....all good. Commence head scratching....which by this time contains an unruly mostly fuel soaked mop of hair. (there IS fuel in the system). Last resort, we empty a can of gas into her.....man that tank sure sounds empty.....and BOOM!!! Off she goes like the silky little sex kitten that she normally is!!!! There was not enough fuel in the tank to feed the pick up tube I guess and the sending unit was hung up at half mast! (she sits in the garage a lot....easy to lose track of the last time she was filled up).
Funny thing is, I was just gonna pop off the sending unit as the very first point, just cause its so easy to get to really, and have a look inside the tank for any possible debris or other problems. But the lovely ladies father talked me out of it using the wisdom of "you don't have a new gasket here for under that sending unit and that one could be 30+ years old"....sounded like words of wisdom at the time!!!!
Anyway.....smarter guys would have started by adding fuel to the tank first off...I get it....I get it...... We had a great evening out in the garage with a couple cold beers and more than the odd laugh...many more laughs after we "fixed the problem" LOL, followed by a nice late night drive for another coffee!!!!!
You guys all know the moral of the story.....and yes....Mikey has learned, oh boy how he has learned!!!!!!!