Stay in SCHOOL!!!

[turbostorm]

:mad: So tonight I went to one of the local gas stations to fill up with "diesel"
So the moron starts to fill the truck and as i was sitting there I could really smell gasoline. HMMM What the $%&@ I look and see what is going on,... the retard was filling me with gasoline, then he tried to make me feel like it was my fault. Needless to say he might be looking for a new job now that he had to phone his boss and tell him what he had done again. Yes I said again because as he was talking on the phone to his boss he said " I made another diesel mistake." The truck is now sitting at the GM dealer ship after being towed there. Guess we will see how I make out tomorrow AM.

[Chevylover]

Bad to hear, but that's why I fill my tank by my own and not through such an idiot !


Cu,
Sven

[grancito]

That happened to me in Costa Rica, the gas attendent put about 20 liters of gas in then said "no problem, I'll continue with diesel", I made him drain the tank. He put a hose in, then a rag around a compressed air hose into the filler tube and blew it all out.

[turbostorm]

just an update the truck is still waiting for the tank to get drained. Talked to the manager and gave him the tow bill of $105. He phoned up to the gm dealership and only gave them the ok to drop the tank and put $5 worth of fuel in the tank. Works out to be about 3 litres of fuel. So I had to call the manager back told him how things are going to work. He is now going to put $20 in now. I'm to the point now that i just want the truck back. Good thing I never had to work today cause the also think the truck might not be done till after the long weekend.(Canada Day)

[JD_countryboy]

Boy that sucks. But i got to work this am to find out someone did that just that to a 99 powerjoke. Bigger problem, had driven 3.5 miles, truck started to run like shit and smelled really really hot, i was told by the driver, So they drove the 3.5 miles back home. Not knowing this i fired it up and it sounded like it was gonna blow apart. Never heard an engine so loud in my life. Afetr dropping and flushing tank, and fuel system, and new fuel filter its running correctly again. Only thing now i have a leak from someplace around the back of the fuel filter housing. So that is tomarrows project.

[grancito]

That's good to know that they will run on gasoline, just make it a 2 stroke mix to lubricate the injector pump. An accepted winterizing fuel is adding 5% gasoline.

[young_gun]

happened to me last summer, guy filled her right full of gas. got a hose and a bunch of containers from the station and sucker her out myself. was back on the road in no time without any problem or cost.

[JD_countryboy]

think a powerjoke rattles burning diesel, you should hear them startin on gas:eek: thought that thing was throwin rods. What a way to clean a fuel system huh.

[99C2500]

back in January '01 got a tank full of gas , took of down the highway about 5 or 6 miles then pulled over . Realized something was wrong (lots of white smoke) .Towed to dealer ,they flushed the tank and whatever else was necessary, they started the engine and it seized less than ten seconds later
right there in the service bay. Three weeks later I got my truck back.
My brother in law works at this dealership and told me that when they took my engine apart the connecting rod bearings had been flattened. The gas stations insurance paid this repair (16,000 Canadian dollars, 10,500 alone for the engine).I found out later that the tanker truck driver had filled the underground diesel tanks with gas.

Truck had 40,000 kms on the odometer when this happened

[MAGNUM SERVICES]

If you pump your own you NEVER have to worry about it. EVER!!!

[Buddy]

If you pump your own you NEVER have to worry about it. EVER!!!

Well, you might not have to worry about it, but you sure have to pay for it if you or your spouse have a mental brainfart.

[MAGNUM SERVICES]

I have brain farts all the time BUT my wife NEVER drives our truck and NEVER fuels the truck either. Most of the time I fuel her car for her as I hate the smell of unleaded and we own a Hair Salon and I want her as clean and fresh smelling as possible for HER customers. I am a Landscaper so I always smell like fuel or mulch or just good old fashioned hard earned sweat and she likes it!

[cudacoupe68]

Some places like New Jersey have laws against pumping your own fuel, or having guns, chewing too loudly, ect. I just watch the people and give them the death look for grabbing the petrol pump. BTW - Jersey blows.

[grancito]

Petrol? Do people in NJ say petrol? I had to call it gasoline after leaving Australia, so people understood me.

[grvrjr]

My dad did that the first time when he first purchased my truck back in 95. It slipped his mind because my model is a c1500. the mistake never happened again.

[Sasquatch]

I have put a couple gallons of gas in my diesel before and came close a few other times because it seems that it might be too much trouble for every gas station to use the same color handle for different types of fuel. Black Diesel Green Unleaded or whatever floats there boat just so everyone could use a standard of some sort. I get used to green at one station for diesel go to the next and it’s black at that that one. I’m sure that plays a big role in the fill up mistakes.

[Buddy]

Yeah, been there done that, almost pumped unleaded once from a green handle. Almost

[God prefers Diesels]

My wife gets stopped by guys all the time when she's putting diesel in my Bronco. They can't believe it's got a 6.2!

I read recently that a diesel can run on 30% gas with no noise difference or performance difference. They've lost their minds in my opinion.

Dad built and installed a 6.2 in a guys Suburban a while back. It came back about a month later with a busted crank and all of the wrist pins out of it. He couldn't figure out what happened. After it was fixed the guys wife asked if "putting gas in it" could've caused the problem!!!

[JD_countryboy]

Maybe 30% in a newer computer controlled diesel. But you wont get the power you had, and still think starting would cause some major rattle and possibly blow a head gasekt in a short time.
One of the bosses sons at work once put a little over a half a tank of gas in an otherwise empty tank on a 99 F 350 joke. (never told us) 3.5 miles later the bosses wifes calls me and says somethings wrong with the truck. She brings it back, truck smells hot and sounds funny. Says it lost all power and suddenly got noisy. I go to work on it the next day when i get to it, try and start it and i thought all hell broke lose. It started, barely, man did it crack and rattle, and when i figured out what happened ( opened fuel tank and smelled gas). Truck still idleing i tried to back it up onto some ramps, truck didint have the power to start backing up the ramps, even when i slowly floared the truck. Pulled tank and drained, flushed fuel lines, new fuel filter Almost 10,000 miles since and no other problems (knock on wood).

[trukdoc]

...military calls them multi-fuel...