"DML" <dml@mckittricks.ca> wrote:
: She drove about 1km before the car started to crap out. It's in the fule line. I checked one of the plugs and it's nice and gunky in their.
: My thought was to dump the gas/diesel then fill it with premumim and run it on the highways. 120 kmh
: If that dosn't fix it then I will tow it to the dealer and let her handle it.
Does it have a test port on the fuel rail? If so, I would be
tempted to drain as much fuel as possible from the tank, then fill
it up, open up the test port (or failing that, remove an injector)
and run the fuel pump for several minutes to clean out the lines.
(Naturally, it would be a good idea to figure out how to capture
the gas coming out of the test port or injector boss rather than
having it flow all over the engine to the ground.) :-)
Might not be a bad idea to change the plugs (or clean them
at the very least), and run some fuel injector cleaner and/or
"decarbon-ing" agent (not sure what the proper name for that
stuff would be) for the first few fill-ups.
Diesel pumps are "supposed" to have large nozzles which
will not even fit into the filler neck on a gas vehicle.
(Unfortunately for someone who isn't paying attention), many
have been replaced by smaller ones at stations that cater to
passenger vehicles. Those large nozzles are also great for
a quick fill-up - they flow about a billion gallons per
minute. :-) (When I was driving home from Florida in the
CTD last year, at one truck stop in WV, I couldn't even get
to the first indent on the lock without the fuel coming
back up out the filler neck!)
Anyway, good luck, hope you can get her back on the road
with a minimum of expense. (And tell her to avoid those
green nozzles in the future!) ;-)
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