"G.T" <g.t6@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
>> I really wouldn't chance any pro****tion of petrol in a common rail car.
> For
>> the sake of losing the cost of a tank of fuel VS the cost of swapping
the
>> pumps, it'd be the tank of fuel that's swapped every time for me.
> Eeeer, pumps, injectors... Mostly all of the fuel line indeed, if the
> engine
> doesn't burn in the meanwhile !
> A friend of mine (OK, a friend of mine's wife) filled up her 406 HDI
with
> petrol. She saw it immediately and called the hauler, she just had to
cope
> with a tank flush, seems to run fine anyway.
>
> I've heard of a guy which did the same with a Safrane 2.5TD (crappy
engine
> anyway) and didn't realize - I won't explain the details of the story -
> and
> despite being an old-class Diesel, had to change fuel line and the
> complete
> engine.
>
They must have been tougher in the 60's. A colleague tried to save me
some
hassle and filled up the Morris LD diesel Royal Mail van that I was to
drive
that afternoon. Unfortunately, the petrol and diesel pumps being side
by
side, he filled it with petrol.
I arrived and went on my trip and for the first 5 or 6 miles it ran fine
but
then started to kangaroo a bit. Fortunately my journey took me past the
workshops so I pulled in and, after examining it, they told me it wasn't a
f###ing two stroke.
They drained the tank, refilled with diesel, bled it and sent me on my
way.
It ran fine for some years after that.
The pumps in the yard were hand operated and shortly after that, the same
colleague put the petrol hose in a van and proceeded to turn the handle on
the diesel pump. Unfortunately he was standing directly below the
nozzle.
Ruined his suit and his car stunk for weeks because he'd driven home in it
to change.
--
Keith Willcocks
(If you can't laugh at life, it ain't worth living)
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