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  2. Tips for your car in the cold weather: Inflate your tires ...

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    Having a full tank limits condensation that can cause gas lines to freeze when it's super cold, AAA says. Plus it buys you time until the weather warms up. Plus it buys you time until the weather ...

  3. Fuel gauge - Wikipedia

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    As used in vehicles, the gauge consists of two parts: The sending unit - in the tank; The indicator - on the dashboard; The sending unit usually uses a float connected to a potentiometer, typically printed ink design in a modern automobile. As the tank empties, the float drops and slides a moving contact along the resistor, increasing its ...

  4. Tank truck - Wikipedia

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    A tank truck, gas truck, fuel truck, or tanker truck (American English) or tanker (British English) is a motor vehicle designed to carry liquids or gases on roads. The largest such vehicles are similar to railroad tank cars, which are also designed to carry liquid loads. Many variants exist due to the wide variety of liquids that can be ...

  5. Tank car - Wikipedia

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    A historical milk tank car for bulk loading at the Illinois Railway Museum. A milk car is a specialized type of tank car designed to carry raw milk between farms, creameries, and processing plants. Milk is now commonly chilled, before loading, and transported in a glass-lined tank car. Such tank cars are often placarded as "Food service use only".

  6. Fuel reserve - Wikipedia

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    In theory this causes no harm, except that the fuel may run out without warning. Because fuel tanks accumulate various substances that can cause problems if these are allowed to flow downstream in the fuel system, it is advisable to refill the tank before or soon after the level reaches the reserve outlet and not drain the tank completely.

  7. Fuel tank - Wikipedia

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    A fuel tank (also called a petrol tank or gas tank) is a safe container for flammable fluids, often gasoline or diesel fuel. Though any storage tank for fuel may be so called, the term is typically applied to part of an engine system in which the fuel is stored and propelled ( fuel pump ) or released (pressurized gas) into an engine .

  8. Onboard refueling vapor recovery - Wikipedia

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    If the car's own vapor recovery system is working properly, then the Stage II nozzle will only be vacuuming normal fresh air and depositing that into the gas station's underground fuel storage tanks. That ends up causing evaporation of fuel vapors into the atmosphere, because too much pressure builds up in those fuel storage tanks.

  9. Cold air intake - Wikipedia

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    Example of a Roush cold air intake system installed on a sixth generation Ford Mustang Illustration of how the first generation Honda Ridgeline's cold air intake system gets fresh air forward of the radiator and into its airbox using an air channel created by the bulkhead cover and rubber seals under the engine's hood. [1]