Well, I did it, put gas in my truck.

[NSperduto]

Well, I finally did it. Stopped for fuel at Flying J on a trip home today (2pm on a Monday). I was all ****** off at the mess of campers int he truck stop and people blocking pump and every other throughfare with unattended rigs, two broken diesel pumps. I finally got to a pump, grabbed the right most handle (usually diesel) and started pumping. 15 gallons later I realized it was regular unleaded and I shut it off. I went into the desk and called the shop in the back of the building (J-Care) who told me that they were not equipped to empty my tank for me. The gave me a garage number. I call the garage who says they can do it, but don't have anyone to do it. I call Good Sam emergency road service who finds someone who could do it tomorrow or Wednesday, they can tow my truck, but not my camper, so that would have to go somewhere else (I'm only 150 miles from home). So I said to hell with all of them. I sent a buddy to Walmart for 5 gas cans and I had a length of hose. I syphoned it out right there in the parking lot.

I had 1/8 of a tank by the guage when I pulled in and I put in 15 gallons of gas. We syphoned out 22 gallons. Then I put in some power service cetane boost and 36. 2 gallons of diesel fuel. The truck seemed to run ok home. I think what ever was left in there will be pretty well diluted. I'm down to 3/4 of a tank. I was going to go again and top it off and then just run it the rest of the way out.



Any other suggestions of what I should do, or should this take care of it.



Thanks,

Nick

 

[DieselMinded]

That Stinks ... . LOL



Ive been lucky so far



the stops around here have BIG nossles on the Diesel Pumps



If I mess up I catch it before I start pumping.



Read This its kind of interesting



http://www.dieselminded.otisnet.net/mixing_fuel.htm





later DM

 

[Rotty]

This is the exact reason I just go to the big truck pumps.

No gasoline in sight and it fills up real quick...

 

[klenger]

You should be fine. What did you do with the gas?

 

[Tomeygun]

Well, I finally did it. Stopped for fuel at Flying J on a trip home today (2pm on a Monday). I was all ****** off at the mess of campers int he truck stop and people blocking pump and every other throughfare with unattended rigs, two broken diesel pumps. I finally got to a pump, grabbed the right most handle (usually diesel) and started pumping. 15 gallons later I realized it was regular unleaded and I shut it off. I went into the desk and called the shop in the back of the building (J-Care) who told me that they were not equipped to empty my tank for me. The gave me a garage number. I call the garage who says they can do it, but don't have anyone to do it. I call Good Sam emergency road service who finds someone who could do it tomorrow or Wednesday, they can tow my truck, but not my camper, so that would have to go somewhere else (I'm only 150 miles from home). So I said to hell with all of them. I sent a buddy to Walmart for 5 gas cans and I had a length of hose. I syphoned it out right there in the parking lot.

I had 1/8 of a tank by the guage when I pulled in and I put in 15 gallons of gas. We syphoned out 22 gallons. Then I put in some power service cetane boost and 36. 2 gallons of diesel fuel. The truck seemed to run ok home. I think what ever was left in there will be pretty well diluted. I'm down to 3/4 of a tank. I was going to go again and top it off and then just run it the rest of the way out.



Any other suggestions of what I should do, or should this take care of it.



Thanks,

Nick

I think you did a great job of fixing the situation...

Just be glad you caught it. . I know of a 2nd gen that had 50/50 mixture ran in it, and it has never been right since then.....

 

[Tony T.]

Nick at least you realized it before you cranked up and got down the road. This happened to a co-worker of mine a couple of years ago, except that he got his gas from a diesel pump. Transport driver dumped his gas load in the wrong storage tank. He (co-worker) not noticing any different smell at the time cranked up and didn't get to far down the road before his truck started acting up. One other thing was he did not get a cash receipt either. He confronted the station attendant about it, first thing they said was did you purchase your fuel here and let me see your receipt, otherwise how do we know you got the bad fuel from us.



Tony

 

[LDobie]

Good catch man. There's a family story that a friend of my dad's back in the early '80's wanted a diesel pickup, so he filled up with diesel instead of gas thinking that he now had one... lol :--)

 

[thejeepdude]

Just a thought... if you could siphon ~90% of the gas out of the tank and wanted to make sure it was all out, couldn't you open the water drain at the fuel filter and cycle the key until it quit dumping fuel on the ground (into a bucket of course)? Then pump a gallon or so of diesel in the tank, and continue the procedure to get the last now diluted gallon out? Then drain the filter, close the drain, fill up with diesel, prime it, and be on your way? Even without doing this step I'd say you diluted it enough not to cause a problem, but just contemplating what I'd do in the same scenario (after screaming and kicking my own arse or course).

 

[Tomeygun]

Thats why I like my DPP pump, I could just cut open the engine side line, and bump the starter, that sucker would pump the whole tank dry I bet



After I was done, just push the fuel line back on (push-lock types)



I guess It would work

 

[NSperduto]

You should be fine. What did you do with the gas?

It's in can's in the back of the truck. One is mostly diesel. (the first one)

I'll dump that in a car that I'm sending to the junkyard because I know they drain and recycle what ever is in the gas tank.

The rest of the cans are mostly gas, so I'll use it in my lawn tractors.



Nick

 

[NSperduto]

Just a thought... if you could siphon ~90% of the gas out of the tank and wanted to make sure it was all out, couldn't you open the water drain at the fuel filter and cycle the key until it quit dumping fuel on the ground (into a bucket of course)? Then pump a gallon or so of diesel in the tank, and continue the procedure to get the last now diluted gallon out? Then drain the filter, close the drain, fill up with diesel, prime it, and be on your way? Even without doing this step I'd say you diluted it enough not to cause a problem, but just contemplating what I'd do in the same scenario (after screaming and kicking my own arse or course).

That's a good question. I didn't think of it at the time. I was concerned with getting it out before getting it into the lines.

 

[jelag]

The key factor is lack of lubricaton to the injection pump..... it won't run dry or using gasoline as a lube..... and I think you've done the right thing and you did it in a way that makes sense to me..... It's what I would have done.....



I travel a lot... and often have never been into the card lock where I'm getting fuel... I always look for the green nozzle, and look at the color and smell of the fuel when I turn on the nozzle... . and than push it all the way into the tank... .



I've been fooled, got the nozzle off the pump, and into my hand. . it was green and looked at the pump only to see it was gasoline... . I like the 2 pump set up where I can put one nozzle in my trucks tank and another nozzle in the tank in the bed of the truck..... I can quickly take on 130 gals of fuel and get out of there... .



Jim

 

[klenger]

I don't mean to be a smart *****, but I usually look for the word "diesel" next to the pump handle. I am glad that this all worked out for NSperduto with no damage and little hastle.

 

[RankRam]

Don't forget the sniff test, even if the pump reads diesel they can have gas in their holding tank.

 

[GFrance]

Don't forget the sniff test, even if the pump reads diesel they can have gas in their holding tank.

Yea it can happen. Just ask me :-laf 22yrs of hauling the stuff & I never mixed product until last sumer I put 2000 gal of N/L in the diesel tank & 2000 gals of D/O in the N/L tank. Fortunately I was in the station real early in the morning no customers. Took me half the day to straighten out that mistake.



You did the right thing by draining out the mix. If it had been caught at just 5 gals in a 32 gal tank you could have added some diesel fuel conditioner for lube & would have been ok. Any more than that & it's to far of speck.

 

[Forrest]

So I said to hell with all of them. I sent a buddy to Walmart for 5 gas cans and I had a length of hose. I syphoned it out right there in the parking lot.

Great post Nick ... thanks for the solution.







Forrest

 

[Regcabguy]

Don't feel too bad as I did the identical thing. I pulled into a Unocal station at the same time as another owner(A 12-valve I was envious). He proceeded to inform me that he'd put 320,000 miles on his truck with no motor problems. We continued to chat as he filled up and I inadvertedly put 87 octane in mine. He said goodbye and pulled away as I noticed my screw-up. Eight and a half gallons later I was on the phone to AAA. Removed my EZ before the towtruck came and had it towed to the dealer. They fixed it at no charge because the receiving dealer had not removed the vent protection cap used during transportation. The tank had collapsed,so they replaced it and threw a whopping three gallons in there and I made it to the nearest station. No charge! Now I smell the nozzle after questioning a tanker driver who informed me that there is no fail safe system of interlocking nozzles etc. He'd blown it four times in his twenty-four years.

 

[Boosted Inline Six]

Thanks for posting this.

Thanks for posting this. I'm a newby diesel owner and wouldn't have payed much attention. I will now.

 

[roverhybrids]

I can add myself to the list of idiots that filled their diesel with regular gas.



I was on my way home from a long week of work at about 2:00am. Couldn't find a diesel pump anywhere. Decided I had enough to make it to the next town that had a truck stop. Pulled up to the pump and filled her up with 28 gallons. While it was pumping I went inside and got some power service as I heard it could increase the mileage. After hanging up the nossle I poured in 3/4 of the bottle(should have been little more than 1/4) figured oh well shouldn't hurt.

Get back on the freeway resetting the overhead(been averaging around 14. 5)

"Hey look honey were getting 18mpg!" About 40 or so miles later I notice the truck starts to surge. I think to myself that's weird, usually real smooth on cruise control... ... that Power Service must really make a difference, guess I should have put it in first like you're suppose to. Proceed to swerve back and forth in an attempt to mix up the fuel in the tank. (by this time it's about 3:00am) Start thinking to myself it's hard to believe that the PS would make that much different... ... . couldn't be bad fuel from a truck stop... ... ... couldn't be water... ... ..... it's almost like someone put in REGULAR UNLEADED GAS... ..... where's my receipt... ... ... Oh What are we going to do?(of coarse right now were in the middle of nowhere.

So 80 miles since the fill up I stop at another truck stop. I try to syphon out the gas but can't get a hose in the tank. Tried everything including disconecting the filler hose and going directly into the tank but still couldn't get the hose in. In end I ended up getting an electric fuel pump from Napa along with some fuel line and pumped it all out that way using the fuel out line on the tank.

 

[Blakers]

It's in can's in the back of the truck. One is mostly diesel. (the first one)

I'll dump that in a car that I'm sending to the junkyard because I know they drain and recycle what ever is in the gas tank.

The rest of the cans are mostly gas, so I'll use it in my lawn tractors.



Nick

Just put the stuff that is mostly gas in your mower or tractor, or even older car and it should be ok on a warm day. The other stuff, keep it for cleaning parts.