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Jul 20, 2015 | 09:10 PM

wfdlt8

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Help needed vette died on interstate

Was traveling to VA Beach on I-64 and car died doing about 75 Mph on a very bumpy stretch of highway. The gas gauge was reading just a tick under half of a tank. I barely got the car to the right shoulder with out getting run over bye idiot drivers. I tried cranking it over and it was acting like it wasn't getting fuel. After about five minutes of cars zooming bye at 80 plus Mph a VDOT safety truck and State Trooper stopped too assist me. The trooper thought that the fuel pump may have triggered some kind of safety cut off switch from hitting some of the big ruts in the highway due to the milling and paving. We looked and couldn't find any kind of switch. The VDOT guy had some gasoline so I put that in, about 3 gallons and the car started. After adding the fuel the gas Gauge read a little over half of a tank. I drove about 5 miles to a gas station and put about 6.5 gallons in the car and it was full to the top of the filler neck. As I was fueling the car the fuel would only go into the tank very slowly about 10 cent at a time, took me over 15 minutes to get the fuel in the tank. I was thinking that maybe the car vapor locked as the temperature outside was very hot when this happened. Any ideas or suggestions as I need to make a 250 mile drive home in this car Friday.

Jul 20, 2015 | 09:17 PM

momo20

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first of all what code's were present at the time of this happening...if you don't know how to check codes...with the car in the on position not started press and hold down options and press fuel 4 times and that will tell you all of the codes...H is history and C is current..and secondly what year is your car????

Jul 20, 2015 | 09:24 PM

jjaaam

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IIRC this has something to do with the siphon pump not working correctly...fuel isn't being moved from one tank to the other and you essentially run out of gas even though there is still actually 1/2 tank left. That would explain why the (approximately) 9 gallons you put in topped it off.

Experts, please correct me if I'm wrong...

Jul 20, 2015 | 09:31 PM

wfdlt8

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No codes present, car ran flawless before it happened and after it started back up

Jul 20, 2015 | 09:44 PM

jjaaam

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https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...-on-gauge.html

Read posts #8 and #18 by 8VETTE7. He's one of the (many) knowledgeable people on this forum...

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Jul 21, 2015 | 01:51 PM

wfdlt8

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Thanks guys, I will definitely buy a new gas cap and change the filter as they are both original to the car. Probably make a fuel stop when it gets to 5/8 of a tank just to be on the safe side. Hopefully this will get me home safely and I won't have to worry about the idiot drivers out there running me over if the car dies in traffic again.