BillArnett
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We ran the Behind the Rocks trail in Moab today. All (omitting White Knuckle) went well until the very end when we stopped at the top of the very first (unnamed) obstacle to see if we could go down it. We stopped at the top to check it out. Decided against it in favor of the easy way out. But when I got back in the Jeep it wouldn’t start!
We had been bouncing down the modestly easy stuff prior to the obstacle. And we stopped when the Jeep pointing downhill at a pitch angle of maybe 10 degrees. Nothing I haven’t done 100 times before. I had noticed a few minutes before that the gas gauge was reading 1/4 when it should have been more like 1/2. And now at the stop it was reading Empty. WTF?? Pressing the start button repeatedly turned the engine over a couple of revolutions then nothing. At the place I stopped I was unable to roll either direction because of a couple of medium rocks. Stuck!
I guessed that it had something to do with the angle I was parked at. So I broke out the winch (for the first time!) and pulled the Jeep forward enough to get it level again. (Which wasn’t easy given the dearth of winch points available.) The gas gauge then read 3/8 and it started right up. We drove back to Moab without further incident.
Anyone have any idea what was going on?
We had been bouncing down the modestly easy stuff prior to the obstacle. And we stopped when the Jeep pointing downhill at a pitch angle of maybe 10 degrees. Nothing I haven’t done 100 times before. I had noticed a few minutes before that the gas gauge was reading 1/4 when it should have been more like 1/2. And now at the stop it was reading Empty. WTF?? Pressing the start button repeatedly turned the engine over a couple of revolutions then nothing. At the place I stopped I was unable to roll either direction because of a couple of medium rocks. Stuck!
I guessed that it had something to do with the angle I was parked at. So I broke out the winch (for the first time!) and pulled the Jeep forward enough to get it level again. (Which wasn’t easy given the dearth of winch points available.) The gas gauge then read 3/8 and it started right up. We drove back to Moab without further incident.
Anyone have any idea what was going on?