If that's as far as she drove.. She should have still been burning the
actual gasoline that was still in the lines. I doubt if the diesel has made
it anywhere near the engine compartment yet.. Just disconnect the fuel line
before the injectors, and at the tank..
Drain, rinse, and refill the tank.. and blow the line out with compressed
air.. It may have a little in the pump itself.. so it you wanted you could
cycle the pump for a sec before reconnecting everything.. and she should be
good to go..
Not like the old days of just top it off and burn it anyway.
Aaron
----- Original Message -----
From: <jon@dakota-truck.net>
To: <dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net>
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 4:31 PM
Subject: Re: DML: Siphon gas
>
> "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 have been replaced by smaller ones at stations that cater to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!) ;-)
>
> --
> -Jon-
>
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