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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considering my experience with multi-fuel trucks in the Army, I get a little chuckle out of the doom and gloom answers here.
Those 6 cylinder diesels were made to run on nearly anything that would flow through a pipe and burn, EXCEPT 115/145 Avgas.
Since the Army did not have the infra-structure set up to deliver diesel to all units, we burned 80 octane mo-gas in the deuce and a half. It ran just fine, and did no damage.
However, I have also seen the damage done to a 4-53 Detroit Diesel in a forklift when some dingbat filled the truck with gasoline. the fuel pump handled it just fine, but the unit injectors were destroyed.
The point of all this, of course, is that blanket statements can always be proven wrong! Not ALL diesel engines will fail if run on gasoline, but SOME certainly will!
It isn't my vehicle, so I don't care, but if it WAS mine, it would go NOWHERE until the tank and fuel system were cleared of all gasoline!
To quote many people on these forums, "It is just cheap insurance!"
Those 6 cylinder diesels were made to run on nearly anything that would flow through a pipe and burn, EXCEPT 115/145 Avgas.
Since the Army did not have the infra-structure set up to deliver diesel to all units, we burned 80 octane mo-gas in the deuce and a half. It ran just fine, and did no damage.
However, I have also seen the damage done to a 4-53 Detroit Diesel in a forklift when some dingbat filled the truck with gasoline. the fuel pump handled it just fine, but the unit injectors were destroyed.
The point of all this, of course, is that blanket statements can always be proven wrong! Not ALL diesel engines will fail if run on gasoline, but SOME certainly will!
It isn't my vehicle, so I don't care, but if it WAS mine, it would go NOWHERE until the tank and fuel system were cleared of all gasoline!
To quote many people on these forums, "It is just cheap insurance!"
