Wife put gas in my Diesel truck...

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eao

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We got a new truck at work once, it was delivered to our field office by our maint. division. A F350 4x2 CC w/gas engine. Sent the seasonal workers out to do a job one day with the new truck, told them to fill it with gas because both tanks are near empty. On the way out to the job it broke down so we had it towed to the Furd dealer, it had less than a 1000 miles. 2 days later they called the office and informed us both tanks were full of diesel fuel and that's why the engine quit. 19 yo Driver screwed up and that cost us over $1000 to fix, he said he thought it was a diesel.
 
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sweeperguy

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eao said:
We got a new truck at work once, it was delivered to our field office by our maint. division. A F350 4x2 CC w/gas engine. Sent the seasonal workers out to do a job one day with the new truck, told them to fill it with gas because both tanks are near empty. On the way out to the job it broke down so we had it towed to the Furd dealer, it had less than a 1000 miles. 2 days later they called the office and informed us both tanks were full of diesel fuel and that's why the engine quit. 19 yo Driver screwed up and that cost us over $1000 to fix, he said he thought it was a diesel.
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Usually diesel nozzles won't fit in the gas openings. I think its a law to have proper nozzles on pumps
 
yamadooed

yamadooed

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How does one add the wrong fuel to any modern vehicle... There's like warning stickers and write'n all over the fuel door and cap...

Maybe they should make one nozzle square... :)
 
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old abe

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sweeperguy said:
Usually diesel nozzles won't fit in the gas openings. I think its a law to have proper nozzles on pumps
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Not on the "auto" pumps. Large truck pumps yes, larger. "Auto" pumps use same size dispensing nozzles. All diesel nozzles have a green shield/collar on them, large, or small. Gasoline, or blends have Red, or Yellow shield/collar. And yes this type thing happens. Gas in diesel, or diesel in gas.
 
srt20

srt20

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old abe said:
Not on the "auto" pumps. Large truck pumps yes, larger. "Auto" pumps use same size dispensing nozzles. All diesel nozzles have a green shield/collar on them, large, or small. Gasoline, or blends have Red, or Yellow shield/collar. And yes this type thing happens. Gas in diesel, or diesel in gas.
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BP shields and handles are all green, diesel and gas.
 
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1flatlander2

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Tracker said:
yes that certainly is on the EASY side of things....whilst you was doing that...we gassed the truck with gas....turned the key....and was 150 miles north BEFORE you got that hole cut...and that was easy peasy too eh?....you guys slay me on the working on them and the jacking around for endless hours and then say....easy and no problemos......ROTFLMAO...sounds easy too flatlander LOL
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never said it was easy. i don't have tracker money and when i said no problems i meant the truck is still running. that was 5 years ago. a little 93 octane wont hurt my truck. Please call me a snowbank mechanic.
 
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psindust

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Didn't you tell her to put diesel fuel in it only? If you did and she did this you must learn to tune your women up properly so this kind of malarkey does not happen again! I took this class years ago on how to properly tune your women up and it worked out just wonderful! If you would like to learn more about this class let me know!
 
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fusionfool

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Not sure about the Cummins engine but have a 2001 DuraMax, years ago started running low on fuel, could not find a station with diesel anywhere. Read in the book and found that you can run unleaded fuel in an emergency. Just don't turn it off until you have diesel in the tank, and let idol for a few minutes.
Anyway we had to drive 36 miles before finding diesel towing a 36' fifth wheel. That was at 32,000 on the odometer. The truck now has 280,000, Rusted has all get-out, but engine is strong.
 
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