My first 6L encounter...

[stevek]

So I am at the Flying J last night looking at a pretty sharp new PSD in the next lane. As always we start talking and he is complaining how expensive diesel (says this is his first fill up) at this place. Its 1. 33 right now I say, which aint too bad, he gags and says its 1. 56 at his pump in the next lane. I look and sure enough he has just put 26gals of super unleaded into his new truck. Drove away thinking he really deserves that kinda truck

 

[JWhitcomb]

Gotta feel bad for that guy, Ford or not. This winter I was at a FJ in SoCal and saw the same thing had happened to a guy in a new GMC. Felt really bad for him as he had his grand kids and it was night. Stayed around long enough to see a pumper arrive. Same thing could have happened to any of us with a first diesel and after a life time of pumping gas. Me, I smell the nozzle as I now get mailing from senior organizations.

 

[rrausch]

A couple of years ago on a Sat. afternoon, I was at a major-brand station, I forget which one now, and a nicly dressed couple pulled in in a Mercedes Diesel... older couple... the old guy got out and pumped about 7 gallons of unleaded into his almost empty tank before he noticed. (The unleaded handles at that station were green) I was next to him, and he asked me what I thought he should do. I helped him push the Merc, with his wife steering, to a shady spot out of the busy flow of cars getting gas, and I went and got him a siphon hose. He went and came back with a couple of fairly clean, used 5-gallon buckets. We siphoned 10- gallons of gas/#2 mixture out of his tank into those buckets. But what happened next is what amazed me. Here we are with 2 full 5-gallon buckets of the mixture, and we ask the station attendant, whose name was Juan, if he wanted the mixture. He said sure! He took the first bucket, walked over to the fill opening for the station's underground unleaded storage tank, and poured her right down into the underground tank. Then he got the other one and poured it in too! Juan said "Gracias!", we rolled the guy back to a diesel pump, he filled it up and went on his way! Not a single person at that busy station had even noticed!

 

[Champane Flight]

Won't hurt it.

A little diesel in the unleaded won't hurt it a bit, a amount of ten gallons in ten thousand won't even show. Now a little unleaded in the diesel is another story. As little as one gallon in a thousand will ruin it.

 

[HEMI®Dart]

Originally posted by rrausch

A couple of years ago on a Sat. afternoon, I was at a major-brand station, I forget which one now, and a nicly dressed couple pulled in in a Mercedes Diesel... older couple... the old guy got out and pumped about 7 gallons of unleaded into his almost empty tank before he noticed. (The unleaded handles at that station were green) I was next to him, and he asked me what I thought he should do. I helped him push the Merc, with his wife steering, to a shady spot out of the busy flow of cars getting gas, and I went and got him a siphon hose. He went and came back with a couple of fairly clean, used 5-gallon buckets. We siphoned 10- gallons of gas/#2 mixture out of his tank into those buckets. But what happened next is what amazed me. Here we are with 2 full 5-gallon buckets of the mixture, and we ask the station attendant, whose name was Juan, if he wanted the mixture. He said sure! He took the first bucket, walked over to the fill opening for the station's underground unleaded storage tank, and poured her right down into the underground tank. Then he got the other one and poured it in too! Juan said "Gracias!", we rolled the guy back to a diesel pump, he filled it up and went on his way! Not a single person at that busy station had even noticed!

LOL :-laf

 

[rrausch]

Yeah ole Juan was REAL happy to get those buckets of slop. Those 5 gallon buckets had come off of a nearby construction site, and they were definitely... used... if you know what I mean. Oh well! A little dirt & diesel never hurt a ricer too much!

 

[jnelson]

I done the same thing. Almost all the diesel pump handles down in our neck of the woods are green. One day on my way back from Tulsa, I stopped in a station with just fumes in my tank. reached over grabbed the green handle and pumped around 7 gallons of unleaded in my truck - with the motor running!:--)



Before I could reach over and turn the key off the trucked stumbled and statrted to die. To make a long story short, the local dealer (in this case a stealer) brought me a $48 fuel filter. Swapped out the filter, finished topping her off with #2 and drove off like nothing happened.

 

[rrausch]

Somebody posted on this site about being down in Mexico and running very low on Diesel and putting a half tank of gas in and adding several quarts of motor oil and driving away until he could get to a diesel station. As I recall he said it ran pretty smoky and didn't have a lot of power, but he said he didn't think it hurt his pump. I believe he had a '91 or so.