[C320-list] Fuel tank capacity

[Donald Lawson]

Gene
At 3/4 full I take 7.5 gal vice the expected 5 gal. I doubt if the gauge is very accurate. I suspect you may want to do some calibration.  
Don Lawson #1005
On Sep 24, 2012, at 4:51 PM, Gene Helfman wrote:

> We just refilled Satori (#398) for the first time.  Fuel gauge was reading
> about 1/8 full but she only took 10.5 gallons.  Calculating our usage,
> we're getting slightly better than 2 hrs/gallon, which I understand is
> fairly normal.  But with a supposed 20 gallon tank, we expected to put more
> in.  Any comments/ideas?
> 
> thanks,
> gene
> 
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