Diseal and Petrol

[terribleturner]

Im just thinking about Homer's problems till and wonder what are the differences between....

1) Fuel Pumps,
2) Fuel Filters,
and
3) Injectors.


Is it possible the diesal could have damaged ny of the above or clogged them up??

[merckx]

Diesel can definately block fuel filters designed for petrol. :)

[Kranz]

Im just thinking about Homer's problems till and wonder what are the differences between....

1) Fuel Pumps,
2) Fuel Filters,
and
3) Injectors.


Is it possible the diesal could have damaged ny of the above or clogged them up??

1) No, have run diesel through gasoline fuel pumps for many years on many test beds.

2) IIRC the diesel fuel filters are much finer, so I doubt it unless it reacts with the petrol or forms waxes in the filter.

3) wouldn't have thought so as flow test machines for injectors use fluid similar to diesel.

[merckx]

I saw a good programme on the TV a few months ago, a bloke put diesel in his petrol engined vehicle.

It blocked the fuel filter.




2) IIRC the diesel fuel filters are much finer, so I doubt it unless it reacts with the petrol or forms waxes in the filter.
.
Haven't you got this the wrong way around? :)

Putting petrol in a diesel vehicle is much worse than doing it the other way around, petrol is less dense (not as thick) as diesel .

[Paul@SWZ]

you can run diesel through a petrol system and do no damage apart from a bit of smoke. oh and it wont run but if you put petrol in a diesel you cause major problems due to the lack of lubricant in petrol.

If you were to put diesel in just drain it and change the filter and go from there !