SpencerPJ

My daughter home for the holidays, young chemical engineer. Getting a hitch installed on her 2019 Rav4. I asked why? to lug around a couple bikes at times. I thought fair enough, then she added and possibly tow a very small trailer. ahhh, I had to put on my assist hat, mind you with cation, lol. First off, what's your payload. It was easy enough to show her the sticker and explain what that meant, Enlightening that with a well packed car for tent camping, cooler, bikes on rear, she was pretty much completely maxed out. Then googled max towing for her trim level etc, and that combined with payload really was enlightening that she was not going to buy a small pop-up camper with that vehicle. Her BF not as accepting, but I assure her if she exceeds her categories it would come with consequences, enough said. Kids today do not look at manuals, frankly society has dumbed everything down to almost work without them. Personally I've made some posts that I felt I knew the answer, sometimes I want and respect others opinions and want their input as well. That is what I like best about forums.

Ricktwuhk

Kids have never looked at manuals...

Great job educating her. My experience is that some people, not just engineers, are very booksmart, and very smart in their field, but sometimes lack the ability to think at anywhere near the same level in the realworld.

My son is also an engineer, with a master's degree in mechanical engineering, working on very high security things where absolute precision is needed. Said engineer was driving our minivan when headed to his internship at a major automaker a few years back, and the vehicle died. Turned out that the gas gauge sending unit was faulty. So, he has this piece of information now, and I suggested he put a note on dash reminding him of how many miles the vehicle will go without running out of gas. He laughs me off, then days later calls when he ran out of gas again. Goes across the street to gas station, pays for use of gas can, and puts in a gallon. Still won't start. I suggest he make the trip back to the gas station twice more, and viola, it starts. The next week I preemptively had the sending unit / fuel pump replaced, because it's now run dry twice and is likely to fail, and required the engineer to pay for 1/2 of it.

kehyler

I feel like Ricktwuhk should post a format since he's posted so many individual times beforehand. Then we can petition a mod.

Flamingtaco

I've never come across a Ford that would run the pump more than 5-7 seconds before shutting back off due to the pressure sensor reporting no change in psi.

I also haven't seen sending units separate from the fuel pump a long time, doubt you could have replaced just that part on a minivan. The Haynes for my wife's '84 escort shows a combined fuel pump/sender assembly in the tank. That car is long gone, and as of this posting, so it that manual.

acdii

I did try a few years back for one to be posted as a sticky. https://www.f150forum.com/f82/number...9/#post5446734 Guess no mods care if there is a sticky here or not.