Gasoline in diesel

[Turbo Terry]

Years ago maybe 12-15 yrs I was on a road trip and bought 10 gallons diesel for my 99 24v the fuel had gas in it I don’t know how much but I dumped a quart of 2 stroke in it and drove about 300 miles home. Adding 10 gallons about half way home. The vp 44 died a slow death but I made it. New pump etc. diesel pump green handle etc tanker driver put gas in wrong hole. It was the kind of nightmare that stays with you for a long time. So what would you do to a new truck if something like this happened 2022 3500 ho. If you knew it happened .gas in diesel ?

 

[BigPapa]

Don’t start it. Have it towed somewhere for a total evacuation of fuel.

 

[BSeyler]

We had a new fuel stop put in a few years ago and someone mixed up the tanks when they were unloading. A friend of mine was fueling and caught a whiff of gas. He didn't move the truck and the company paid to have it towed and the tank cleaned out. I always pump a little and smell the nozzle to make sure before continuing. I'm thinking it's pretty serious on the new trucks.

 

[Timd32]

Couple articles on

FUEL QUALITY/CONTAMINATION

But the above is pretty much the best advice.

 

[Turbo Terry]

This was in tok alaska population 1230 middle of no where. Towed and fuel pumped out sounds good but real time it’s just not that easy in some places. Yes you could smell the gas in the fuel. For years I carried a small glass container behind the seat and stiffed every nozzle. Even towed and pumped out hard to prove the fuel station was at fault. No real way to prevent it from happening I suppose

 

[Turbo Terry]

40 ft motor homes where filling up there. High season tourist rolling threw town.80 gallons not ten like me wonder how many fuel systems got ruined before that was used up

 

[Ozymandias]

Don’t start it. Have it towed somewhere for a total evacuation of fuel.

In addition don't even switch on the ignition!

If the IGN wasn't on - dropping the tank and cleaning it is enough, if the IGN was on (no start - but liftpump runs) the whole fuel system needs to be disassembled and cleaned.

And warranty is denied of course.

 

[Ozymandias]

This was in tok alaska population 1230 middle of no where. Towed and fuel pumped out sounds good but real time it’s just not that easy in some places. Yes you could smell the gas in the fuel. For years I carried a small glass container behind the seat and stiffed every nozzle. Even towed and pumped out hard to prove the fuel station was at fault. No real way to prevent it from happening I suppose

You can proceed with gasoline if you are willing to pay a 20'000$ repair bill.

 

[Newsa]

I'm always a bit nervous about those types of mistakes. Dang, the ethanol that is in the gas would kill the fuel system through rust and lack of lube.

 

[Turbo Terry]

It is pretty scary

 

[odinjunior]

Damn, another fear to add to my New Truck traveling watch list. Now that I have a 91 gallon Aux tank in the bed.

 

[Turbo Terry]

Yes it is. This was a unmanned station and was doing a volume business.

 

[Jim W]

Very unlikely at the Major truck stops on the interstate highway system. When I use to pull my 5ER and travelled to various states, I would always fill up at major truck stops. In my 14 years of traveling I never had a fuel issue. An I never worried about gas being in the diesel fuel.

 

[Turbo Terry]

Wouldn’t think there could be much gasoline in 10 gallons but the older fellow that drove the tanker in and put the big hose with gas in it probably filled it full.When I called the station owner when I got home. He said it was his dad and he was pretty careful filling the tanks When I drained some into a styrofoam cup and set it on the beach you could smell gas and it didn’t take long for the fuel to go thru the cup. It smelled of gas big time as did the fuel filter and the oil filter. I package them up and mailed them to him so he could smell them himself. Never heard back from him of course. Rebuilt vp 44 and lift pump new oil and filters more 2 stroke oil. Never drained the tank .I burn most of it getting home anyway. I think I credit the 2 stroke oil for allowing me to get home three hundred miles also top up the tank with 10 gallons of #2 diesel

 

[Turbo Terry]

This is a hiway town. Probably 4 places to get fuel. It was high season so a lot of fuel was being moved. Yes I think going to places that the truckers go is maybe key but my 99 was never on a interstate that I can remember so that would work very well for me and sometimes you have to go to a small remote station that doesnt do much business then you get old fuel and old not very good tanks water etc diesel changes pretty fast if it gets old I believe also

 

[Tuesdak]

As noted already: have a plan to deal with it. The acid test is if life is in jeopardy where ENGINE = EXPENDABLE and you may not make it there anyway…

Thus injection system plus engine can get close to a total loss claim. Injector sticks open from gasoline or say contamination from lack of lube due to gasoline in injection pump will quickly burn a hole in a piston. Even the forgotten and forgiving IDI Diesels will melt a piston with sticking or pis sing injectors

Do you want to be towed from a fuel station or middle of nowhere with zero cell phone coverage?

Turn The State loose on the station and then you have better proof for a claim to be paid.

I watched them screw up at the tank depo. They had to send a lot of fuel back to be re-refined and then decided they could finally re-paint the faded fill areas. Expensive DUH! lesson to keep some stuff maintained and always clearly marked… It’s merely odds one avoids this and helps when others do their jobs. For example: The employees that caught the mistake before the fuel ruined many vehicles saved lots of money in claims.

 

[Turbo Terry]

Yes I like your plan. When I started the old 99 up it only ran for a bit then there was a definite sound change in the motor. I was in the stations lot still should have shut it down and had the state come and sample the fuel. I had the camper on I could have dropped it there on the ground stayed in it have the truck towed and tank drained . I could smell gas in the fill neck too as I remember. Live and learn I guess

 

[SnoKing]

I drove tanker from 1976 to 1979. I dumped leaded into an unleaded underground tank once, I caught it after 500 gals of a 975 compartment when in. We shutdown the unleaded customer pumps, I had to go borrow a transfer pump from another brand distributor in the small town 70 miles from my depot, and pump the unleaded tank in to the regular tank. Somehow my boss who had been driving the 8500 tanker before he hired me, knew that other distributor had the transfer pump. I often wonder how he knew that?