We took my Kawasaki Mule in for a new starter and tune up, etc. because it is 10 years old. So after two months of it being at the shop, and me calling, and them never calling back, and terrible service - they say it's ready and we go to pick it up. This is not a dealer, but a motorcycle dealer/repair shop.

So we go to pick up the Mule and the mechanic runs out with a gas can to start it up. WTH?  They must've run it outta gas.  So it won't start.  Owner comes out and asks what's wrong with it, and then he asks mechanic "didn't you drive this thing all weekend?"  Seems there was a motorcycle rally the previous weekend.  Hmm.  So the fuel pump is now out.

Owner & I get in an argument over the phone (and he emphatically says it was NOT driven at all, after we heard him say it had) and he finally says he will fix it at cost.  Now time to pick it up, he says he didn't say that and is charging $218.00. 

My question, after this book:  Can running it outta fuel cause the fuel pump to die?  I'm just getting ready to take this SOB to small claims court.

Thanks for the reply.