Petrol Added to Diesel Tank - How do I drain my tank?

[happygu]

Mat,

you should have this fixed by now, but I would just drain the tank and purge the fuel line, and wouldn't worry about changing over the filter.

You can put some petrol in with your diesel and it won't damage the engine ( All petrol will cause it not to run though )

You shouldn't have damaged your motor in any way. The only real damage I think you can do, is to keep cranking and cranking to get it started as this may damage the Fuel Pump through lack of lubrication

[BigRAWesty]

Yea drain it and top it up with the right juice, then hand prime it right threw to the fuel pump to minimise the cranking time..

Kallen Westbrook
Owner of
Westy's Accessories

[pjwooly]

I've just done the same thing today..yep full tank of unleaded.Had this thing 12 years and never done this.I got about 3k's from the servo when a cough and kick of black smoke from the wagon told me sumthin' aint rite.
Pulled over.She idled ok but when i got underway again...same thing.Missus checked the docket and said unleaded..."BUGGER".RACQ guy said dont drive it till you drain all the fuel which i had allready started doing asi was on a hill and just popped the drain plug.Thankfully we were covered by RACQ and they came and towed us home.

Drained as much asi could from the tank,then added the real diesel again to the tank.Pulled the fuel "out" pipe from the filter(faces the firewall) and started pumping to clear what was left of the ULP from the tank.
If you pull the rubber pipe (hose) from where it joins the copper pipe on the firewall you can then bend it to direct it too a small container cos it pumps it out pretty well.So once you got all the nasty stuff out....

Hook that back up then release the grub screw on top of the injecter pump and just pump till you have diesel from there(sniff sniff).

Took her for a run and all seems good now but i will replace the fuel filter also tomorrow just for peace of mind.

So this is what happens sometimes when you go to a servo that you never go to..."sad excuse i know".

Cheers...and hope it helps sumone else sometime.

[Morton]

I did it once, said "sorry Boss" & handed him the keys, "it is up the road" & walked off, he wasnt the happiest bloke 2 days later when he got the mechanics bill but I won a nice 'tender' job that week, softened the blow somewhat, he could never joke about it though lol, some Bosses have no sense of humour

[happygu]

I've just done the same thing today..yep full tank of unleaded.Had this thing 12 years and never done this.I got about 3k's from the servo when a cough and kick of black smoke from the wagon told me sumthin' aint rite.
Pulled over.She idled ok but when i got underway again...same thing.Missus checked the docket and said unleaded..."BUGGER".RACQ guy said dont drive it till you drain all the fuel which i had allready started doing asi was on a hill and just popped the drain plug.Thankfully we were covered by RACQ and they came and towed us home.

Drained as much asi could from the tank,then added the real diesel again to the tank.Pulled the fuel "out" pipe from the filter(faces the firewall) and started pumping to clear what was left of the ULP from the tank.
If you pull the rubber pipe (hose) from where it joins the copper pipe on the firewall you can then bend it to direct it too a small container cos it pumps it out pretty well.So once you got all the nasty stuff out....



Hook that back up then release the grub screw on top of the injecter pump and just pump till you have diesel from there(sniff sniff).

Took her for a run and all seems good now but i will replace the fuel filter also tomorrow just for peace of mind.

So this is what happens sometimes when you go to a servo that you never go to..."sad excuse i know".

Cheers...and hope it helps sumone else sometime.

Good to hear that you got it all running OK so fast PJ.....that is a good result. I probably wouldn't worry too much about changing the filter out, as it wont affect you at all.

[DX grunt]

Many years ago, my mate, who owned a patrol, lost the diesel cap and got a substitute one.....a ULP cap. Another mate borrowed it and we got to the bowser just in time to see the guy put the ULP nozzle into the diesel tank. Thankfully nothing went in.

[Sharee]

Many years ago, my mate, who owned a patrol, lost the diesel cap and got a substitute one.....a ULP cap. Another mate borrowed it and we got to the bowser just in time to see the guy put the ULP nozzle into the diesel tank. Thankfully nothing went in.

I worry bout that when family borrow mine...cap says unleaded and she's a diesel. This bloke once told me 20odd years ago they used to mix petrol with diesel to make there winch trucks run better. Don't know how true this is.