Accidentally Put gas in my diesel HELP
I accidentally pumped 9GAL of gas in my 2004 new mar that had about 85 GAL of diesel in it. Can i runn this out or drain it? could i put some lucas oil in it and drive it? Thanks not my day.Or cou...
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Tom/Barb wrote:
If it will burn hotter, why is there more BTUs in a pound of diesel than there is in a pound of gas?
Gasoline burns hotter in a diesel engine than diesel fuel does because instead of a controlled slow burn, it explodes suddenly. This is because the mixture of gas and diesel does not ignite instantly, but builds up briefly before the diesel part catches fire, thus setting off the gas part. If you fueled it with pure gas, it would never fire, but the mixture does ignite, and then the gas part explodes. The sudden release of energy in a very short amount of time, especially when first injected as the piston is still coming up in compression, results in a momentary extra hot flame that can result in damage to the engine.
It is true that diesel fuel contains about 10% more energy per volume of fuel than does gasoline. But the difference between an explosion and a slow burn more than overcomes that small difference.
