HEEEEEEEEELLP !! Diesel in the Tank!!!!

[Akula]

Before i took the bike for its MoT it needed a bit of fuel, being in a hurry i accidentally fuelled up with £5 of diesel :oops: #-o , realising my mistake I then filled the rest of the tank up with petrol. The bike stuttered a bit to the test station where it passed without any problems.
Now my dilemma is it better to ride the bike around till its half emptyish and then fill her back up with PETROL. Or syphon what fuel is in their and then refuel??

[amarko5]

unless you can dilute it with lots of petrol. I would be more inclined to drain and refill :wink:

[Stingo]

Oops! You didn't want to do that mate!! :shock:

[Akula]

unless you can dilute it with lots of petrol. I would be more inclined to drain and refill :wink:

Cheers amarko5 well it was £5 of diesel and £11 of petrol to dilute it, enough :?

[simple simon]

A friend did this on the way to BSB at Cadwell recently - so you are not alone! :oops:
We see it a lot at the car dealership and I would suggest you remove the contaminated fuel and re-fill the tank.
After a good run, the engine should be back to normal.

Tenner says you'll never do that again!

[amarko5]

can you drain a further half out of your tank then refill,

and when you have run that down put the half you drained back in a refill

I think you will probably be ok at that, as long as your not going to thrash the balls out of it and ride sensibly until you feel its washed out of the system.

diesel as you are peobably aware explodes on compression without a spark so could do a lot of damage as on compression with no spark it could ignite. i would imagine this would not be in the best intrests of your engine TBH

[amarko5]

drain the lot and find someone with a briggs and stratton single cylinder lawnmower and flog em it..

those things will run on anything :lol:

[Akula]

can you drain a further half out of your tank then refill,

and when you have run that down put the half you drained back in a refill

I think you will probably be ok at that, as long as your not going to thrash the balls out of it and ride sensibly until you feel its washed out of the system.

diesel as you are peobably aware explodes on compression without a spark so could do a lot of damage as on compression with no spark it could ignite. i would imagine this would not be in the best intrests of your engine TBH

Cheers again amarko, thats exactly what ive done, drained the majority of the tank, and ill fill it up later and take it for a run (when its stopped ****ing down).

Now something else, anyone know the best way to get Petrol/Diesel or Pesel as it is now known off paving slabs and NO i dont want to set it alight :P

[amarko5]

can you drain a further half out of your tank then refill,

and when you have run that down put the half you drained back in a refill

I think you will probably be ok at that, as long as your not going to thrash the balls out of it and ride sensibly until you feel its washed out of the system.

diesel as you are peobably aware explodes on compression without a spark so could do a lot of damage as on compression with no spark it could ignite. i would imagine this would not be in the best intrests of your engine TBH

Cheers again amarko, thats exactly what ive done, drained the majority of the tank, and ill fill it up later and take it for a run (when its stopped p*ssing down).

Now something else, anyone know the best way to get Petrol/Diesel or Pesel as it is now known off paving slabs and NO i dont want to set it alight :P


gunk or jizer and a pressure washer :lol:

[Sid Squid]

unless you can dilute it with lots of petrol. I would be more inclined to drain and refill :wink:

Agreed. It'll be smoky for the life of that tank, but as long as you haven't got 50% of your tank as diesel and it still runs, it'll be OK.

Drain is preferable of course.

[Daimo]

I watched a programe recently (think it was 5th Gear).

They put petrol in a diesel car, ran it till it stopped. Topped up with diesel, got it started, then he done another 750 miles. It was fine.

He also put diesel in a petrol car. Worked ok, stuttered every so often, then eventually stopped.

Again, put 5 litres of petrol in it, 5 mins later, it was fine again.

Drain it if you can, but if you can't, run out the juice thats in there, then fill it up with petrol, it should be fine.

[simple simon]

Pour coke on the spillage and leave it for a while. When you wash the coke away it should remove the spilt fuel stain.

[didge]

lol ahh unlucky i haven't don that one yet but i doubt it will be long

[kwak zzr]

i was surprised it evan run. :shock:

[Mr Toad]

The new breed of diseasel (ie ones with a common rail injection system) run at a very high pressure, and actually use the diesel to act as a lubricant for the bearings of the fuel pump, so you are less likely to get away with it. Having said that, one of my idiot neighbours has done this 3 times to her landrover disco, and it's still going

(she is the one that once started it up at the same time I started the bike - she turned it off in a hurry thinking there was something wrong with it :twisted: )

[kciN]

gunk or jizer and a pressure washer :lol:

Eh? Come again? Have you tried this before then?? :lol: :lol:

[kciN]

The new breed of diseasel (ie ones with a common rail injection system) run at a very high pressure, and actually use the diesel to act as a lubricant for the bearings of the fuel pump, so you are less likely to get away with it. Having said that, one of my idiot neighbours has done this 3 times to her landrover disco, and it's still going

(she is the one that once started it up at the same time I started the bike - she turned it off in a hurry thinking there was something wrong with it :twisted: )

Hee Hee, you should have played with her, turning it on and off in unison with her!!

[robaker]

(she is the one that once started it up at the same time I started the bike - she turned it off in a hurry thinking there was something wrong with it :twisted: )

As I went round a roundabout outside of Welshpool on Sunday I heard/felt a very strange noise - like brake squeal, but worse. Was very concerned for a couple of seconds - until I spotted the steam-train on the line running beside the road - the noise was its whistle :-)

[kwak zzr]

thats a nice road i know it well :D

[Dicky Ticker]

Basics Diesel is a light oil so you are running on a two stroke mixture which will
sod up your plugs and can foul up valves and exhausts Drain as much as you possibly can out and fill with the highest octane petrol you can get as this burns hotter and will help to clear what residue of diesel is left Remember the more clean fuel u add the less contamination . your next tank of fuel should be OK BUT THRASH IT A BIT[not being silly] and burn /shift the carbon deposits If you want to go the whole hog get an injector additive/cleaner for the second tank of fuel

By the way JEYES FLUID is also good for the patio

[Akula]

Bike seems to be running like its old self again, BUT anytime I come to a stop at a roundabout for instance, the bike stalls (unless ive got the choke on) is this just gonna take time to clear??? Ive filled up a couple of times now and the second refuel I have put some redex (petrol) in to clean the carbs.....


Thanks in advance

Martin

[Akula]

Sorted it, the idler knob on the side of the bike alowng me to adjust the idle seed had been turned so far down that any messing around with it ended in poor results. Turned it as far as it would go to High revs and sorted :). Cheers all for your assistance.

Martin