I had a fuel problem on Endurance today when one of my Ford Lehmans stopped running after a few coughs. The engine would start and then die immediately. I knew I was down to about 50 gallons in both tanks but intended to refill after my CG Aux Safety Patrol. We limped back to the marina on one engine and checked out the engine. I was sucking air ! My fuel dip tube ended at the 50 gallon level on the port tank. The stbd. tank had 50 gallons and the engine ran fine. One of my crew suggested that my fuel line was probably attached to my genset dip tube which ended 2/3 of the way down so that the genset would never run the tank dry. We will use a manometer to check out the lengths of the two dip tubes. Has any listee ever experienced a similar problem? Endurance is a '79 43' Albin trawler. Carroll Phillips Jacksonville, FL

>My fuel dip tube ended at the 50 gallon level on the port tank. Carroll Both the port and stbd tanks on my Albin 43 feed from bottom fittings instead of dip tubes. Dan Stone M/V Slow Dance Albin 43 St. Petersburg, FL

Dan, Carroll said his Albin was a 79 model. What year is yours? > > >My fuel dip tube ended at the 50 gallon level on the port tank. > > Carroll > > Both the port and stbd tanks on my Albin 43 feed from bottom fittings > instead of dip tubes. > > Dan Stone

Carroll: My problem was not exactly the same - but I did find, at a bad time, that one of my level checking dip sticks was longer than the others and longer than the dip tube in the same tank. I shortened the dip stick to avoid future mis-reads of available fuel. Why would anyone think to check such invisible things before a problem arises? Wesley weldred@zoo.uvm.edu Carroll Phillips wrote: > My fuel dip tube ended at the 50 gallon level on the port tank. The > stbd. tank had 50 gallons and the engine ran fine. One of my crew > suggested that my fuel line was probably attached to my genset dip tube > which ended 2/3 of the way down so that the genset would never run the > tank dry. We will use a manometer to check out the lengths of the two > dip tubes. Has any listee ever experienced a similar problem?