I put about 5.5 gals of 87 octane in my Dodge last July by not watching. I thought green was still diesel and not mogas. Had about 7 gals or so of diesel in tank still so I just added two quarts of 30 wt oil and drove it until'mos empty. Ran like a scalded dog, but was a little hard to start. Very little rattle and plenty of power. Never changed fuel filters or anything, just added a qt of 30 wt. for the next three tanks. All is well with the world now.
Gasoline in diesel tanks and diesel in gas tanks are relatively easy problems to fix. I was a "boater" for years and I watched a guy put about 25 gallons of diesel into his freshwater tanks on a 42 foot power boat. You have no idea how long it takes to get the taste of diesel out of a water tank.
No problem running the boat, but how do you live aboard?
Musicman wrote: Gasoline in diesel tanks and diesel in gas tanks are relatively easy problems to fix. I was a "boater" for years and I watched a guy put about 25 gallons of diesel into his freshwater tanks on a 42 foot power boat. You have no idea how long it takes to get the taste of diesel out of a water tank.
No problem running the boat, but how do you live aboard?
Musicman
Eeeewwwwww!!!!! Yuck! Bet he won't make that mistake again! This is why dock jockeys aren't allowed to pump fuel into boats, they might pump the fuel into the wrong hole. But when the owner makes that mistake - oh boy, he REALLY shouldn't be owning the boat.
As for living aboard, well I guess you'd be packing bottled water around for some time.
I also got distracted and pumped about 8 gallons of gas into a half tank of diesel. Cost me about $250 plus the price of the gas and a full tank of diesel. Fortunately the engine was off and suffered no damage. I now have my own pump if I ever have a relapse. The pump is to pump diesel from my fuel cans into the truck but by swapping the lengths of hose to the other ends of the pump it will then be used to pump out the tank.
I hope to never use it that way for myself but may be able to help someone else.
Steve and Gayle
2004.5 Dodge 3500 4X4, SRW, QC, SLT, LB, NV-5600, 3.73 AS, 325/600 Cummins
Back when I was in the farm equipment business we had a customer come in with two tractors that would not run. Come to find out the bulk fuel wholesaler left quite a bit of gas in with the diesel he delivered. One of the tractors repaired easy. The other took a complete overhaul. When we pulled the pistons out the top had melted for the extra heat of the gas burning. Some of the pistons had about 1/2 gone. Be very careful, as it can cause some very bad damage. Course a farm tractor is usually pulling about 90% of capacity, where most of the time we are just running around in our trucks. At 90% that engien is getting really hot, thus more damage.
Ken
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Nearly everyone with a diesle will that sooner or later. Its like there are only 2 kinds of motor cycle rider. Ones that have gone down and ones that are going down. All you can do is drain the fuel, purge the fuel rails and change filter refill with proper fuel. I did that 80,000 miles ago.
hpk
2000 Ford F-350 SRW 4X4 PSD Jayco Super Lite 29.5RKS (31') 5th wheel 50 gal X-ferflow in the bed tank. Banks big exhaust and Stinger kit.
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