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 ancientbugger
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| posted on July 27th, 2009 at 05:19 PM |
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Fuel tank capacities
As the heading states what are the capacities of the various beetle tanks. I thought I knew but when I double checked in an old manual I was way off.
So feel free to enlighten me.
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| posted on July 27th, 2009 at 05:31 PM |
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40 liters
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| posted on July 27th, 2009 at 06:12 PM |
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Jeff rekons 40 too Dave, but i'm buggered if i can see it holding more than 35L, regularly put 33 in it and can't see the fuel through the filler
neck............i told him he can push me to the bowser the day i test his theory
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| posted on July 27th, 2009 at 06:15 PM |
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the flat top standard bug tanks are 40L as dave said and all super tanks are 42L dry fill
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| posted on July 27th, 2009 at 06:17 PM |
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he hee, maybe caltex is giving me that extra 5L each fill for nicks 
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| posted on July 27th, 2009 at 06:28 PM |
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8.8 Gallons... which comes out to almost exactly 40 liters.
Most I've ever managed to get into the og tank on my 70 beetle was 38.something liters, and although I knew she was low she hadn't coughed at that
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| posted on July 27th, 2009 at 06:47 PM |
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I can often get 40L or just over in my L bug.
Interestingly, as a young bloke, if my 69 bug was dead empty, I could just about squeeze $8.00 worth of fuel into it. Those were the days.
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| posted on July 27th, 2009 at 07:08 PM |
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its funny looking back
the day i got my Ps and put my first tank of fuel in the bug just for shits and giggles i kept the reciept for years
that was back in the day of good ol leaded fuel with the little bouncy ball in the bowser and it was 74.5 a L 
pretty much half what it is today
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| posted on July 27th, 2009 at 07:17 PM |
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I have a 67, and it ran out of petrol once and when I filled it up again I couldn't get anymore than 37 litres into it, but it is as said 40L
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| posted on July 28th, 2009 at 08:59 AM |
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Cheers, I had it in my head that it was 6.6 imp gallons in a standard and 8.8 in a super but in a workshop manual it states 9.2 imp gallons
(42litres/10.8US gallons) and there's nothing about whether that's in a super or standard. All this btw is just to try to get an old gauge to be as
close to possible to accurate, and to stop my son from worrying all the bloody time!!!
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| posted on July 28th, 2009 at 01:31 PM |
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All this btw is just to try to get an old gauge to be as close to possible to accurate
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dont worry about when its full
it needs to be accurate when 1/4 and on 1/8 reserve indications
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| posted on July 28th, 2009 at 03:43 PM |
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Basically I want it to say 1/2 when it's half full (:spin but not empty
when it drops to a quarter full so that he doesn't run out thinking there's more in there than there is. I can't stand the sulks
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