Jump to content

Wrong fuel


wigeon jim
 Share

Recommended Posts

Hi , my brother in law has stupidly managed to put diesel in his petrol Vauxhall zafera, is there any way to drain the tank without dropping it out, we have a transfer pump, would it draw the fuel to the front through the fuel line? Any help appreciated,   Jim.

Edited by wigeon jim
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Hi look to see if the tank has a drain plug  if not it will need to be drained another way  if he started the car it will need cleaned thru out pipes etc etc people use to wash thru fuel system with parrafin  spark plugs removed and spark off  and a good few batteries to keep turning it over

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Disconnect at the fuel filter, should be an in line filter, take out the fuse to the spark plugs then turn it over so it empties into a basin, problem is it will likely drain the battery.

Another way is to lift the back seat and remove the sender unit from the tank and you may have enough space to take it out with an empty jam jar on a string. Thats how I had to remove 60 litres of diesel from a car one night... sad times

Link to comment
Share on other sites

24 minutes ago, snow white said:

You can run a Diesel engine if you put a couple gallons of petrol in tank then dilute it with diesel but not the other way round petrol engines don’t like it for some reason 

I've done it with an old car and it just run a bit rough but it ran.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

1 hour ago, harrycatcat1 said:

Don't suppose from all the comments that it's possible to shove a small plastic pipe down the filler to empty it?

Or pull a pipe off under the bonnet connect a fuel pump and pump it out? Or does this just work on older cars?

manual vacuum pump same as used for oil changes might work, on the bay for about £25 and cheaper than the hundreds charged/quoted by other services,

image.png.3c656321640110d0ea1e35db7aa42f53.png

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Check his car insurance he may find miss fuelling is covered in his insurance policy, I learnt this the hard way after miss fuelling  and paying for a company to remove the mixed fuel from the tank etc, then many months later spotted it was covered by the insurance, like a windscreen.

Edit to say the fuel tanks have an anti syphon / anti accident spill flap that has to be negotiated to be able to syphon the fuel out.

 

 

Edited by rbrowning2
Link to comment
Share on other sites

16 minutes ago, wigeon jim said:

Thanks, he has an electric transfer pump and was wondering if it would suck the fuel through the filter inlet from the tank?

only if you can get the pipe down past any anti syphon gizmo that might be built into the filler neck,

once had to do this with a tank full of petrol put in a megane diesel that got right to front door as it conked out, just made it back home on what was in fuel lines and filter, fortunately sender unit under rear seat, that was around 40K miles ago so must have been lucky that day.

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

Loading...
 Share

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...