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On Saturday a 105 series Cruiser was dropped at the shop where my car is being tuned.
The owner had fed it 120 litres of diesel by error.
Fortunately he realised before he drove it away from the Fuel Pump.
We removed the filler pipes from the tanks and drained off 200litres (50 gallons in US language) of mixed petrol and diesel before giving it a bit of petrol and starting it up. Smart Toyota didn't put any drain plugs in the tanks.
It blew a little smoke on initial start up but settled down and ran well.
You gotta ask how stupid is the owner?
Funny bit was he was towing a huge power boat at he time and they had to leave it at the pump as it was too heavy to move. The poor Servo guy's couldn't use a couple of pumps for 5 hours whilst we fixed the car.
I wonder what diesel would have doen to a direct injection engine. I probably don't want to know.
The owner had fed it 120 litres of diesel by error.
Fortunately he realised before he drove it away from the Fuel Pump.
We removed the filler pipes from the tanks and drained off 200litres (50 gallons in US language) of mixed petrol and diesel before giving it a bit of petrol and starting it up. Smart Toyota didn't put any drain plugs in the tanks.
It blew a little smoke on initial start up but settled down and ran well.
You gotta ask how stupid is the owner?
Funny bit was he was towing a huge power boat at he time and they had to leave it at the pump as it was too heavy to move. The poor Servo guy's couldn't use a couple of pumps for 5 hours whilst we fixed the car.
I wonder what diesel would have doen to a direct injection engine. I probably don't want to know.