Yeah, I fully understand what happens when you run a pump dry, but I ask because these Dodge/Chrysler ones really seem to not be able to take it even once. My ex-wife was notorious for running out of gas - despite the fact she was never in a vehicle with a non-working fuel gauge.

She did it about four times in a Nissan we had and the fuel pump never had a problem. Did it twice in two different Grand Cherokees and I had to replace the fuel pump both times.

Often, on this forum you see where someone ran out of fuel and had running issues, ultimately fixed by replacing the fuel pump...

Edit - actually I told a little fib, technically I didn't replace the pumps. Both times in our GCs the dealership replaced them under warranty - of course I didn't "volunteer" that my dear MRS. ran out of gas, LOL...

 

at least its not as much of a pain as when you run out of fuel on a diesel... cept for the new auto-priming fords..... :-P

 

Auto priming, we are getting way to lazy lol!!!

 

lol you obviously never had to prime a fuel starved diesel... It SUCKS!

 

I have thats why im saying we are getting lazy lol!!!!
I think thats one of the deterants to running a diesel out of diesel!
I live in Texas Diesels are a must have.

 

i recently purchased the trk about 4 months ago. Ive never ran out of gas myself I also noticed that when i pulled the pump out it was a cheapo airtek which is probably the main cause. I bought a set of the celfix o2 bypass deals

 

Hmm what pump did you go to? Since all the dodge pumps seem to be cheap lol!
And what is celfix o2 bypass?? i got the jist of it jw??

 

It's one of the lesser expensive sims on the market. I have used sims before but not that brand. Personally, I still like the $5 non-fouler trick, myself. Some sims work perfectly, others have issuse, but if the sim works when you first plug it in, it usually works for good...

 

Ok. Ive seen a few guys use Non-Foulers and have no luck and a couple that have. Never heard of Bypass/sims.

 

I've done about a dozen cat deletes over the years, including my old 2nd Gen. Never had the non-fouler trick not work, although I've had to take a couple back out and do the old steel wool tuck a time or two though.

Was prepared to have to use non-foulers on my 3rd Gen with the LT headers and the cats moved back, but so far, six-plus years later, the stock O2s have never sung out, not once...