But I think I know why... here's the story.

I got up the other morning and cranked the truck - it was ~40*F and she cranked right up. Got all of the kids loaded up to take them to school and left out of the drive way. The school is only about 3 blocks away and it's all neighborhood, so I pretty much run idle speed all the way there. Just as we were about to turn in the school, the truck DIED. I was shocked... it just basically idled down and died.

I threw in to park and immediately tried to get started back.... it would just turnover and 'chug, chug' a few times. I continued trying to get it started for several minutes - but got the same results. I was dead and on the center line with all of the school traffic... finally with no cars behind me, I went in to N and rolled back to the curb. After about 3 or 4 more attempts, it cranked back up.

So I dropped the kids and continued on to work without any problems. That evening it cranked back up and drove without any problems.

I worried all day about what could have caused the truck to just die, but as I continued driving home that evening light came on and I knew what happened. That light was the Low Fuel Warning. Though it didn't come on that morning, my driveway is a steep incline and I always back in. So I came to the conclusion that when I started it in the morning it caused the fuel pump to suck a bit of air and since the drive from the house to the school was such a short trip (& at idle speed) it took a while for the 'air bubble' to make to the injectors. When it did make it there, the truck died. After continual attempts to crank it (and the pump pulling fuel), it finally got what it needed. I filled up that evening and it took 25 gals, so it was pretty much empty to the bone.

Since I only drive ~7 miles round trip to work and back, a tank lasts nearly a month... it's sometimes easy to neglect refilling.

So does anyone know where in the tank the fuel is picked up from? Front/Rear/Mid-tank? Just curious so I can confirm my theory.

 

It's picked up from the middle of the tank. If the truck was parked level, fuel would come to the lowest point of the tank. If you peek through the back wheel well you maybe can see where the sending unit goes in the top of the tank.....that's where the pickup is also.