Bad diesel?

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Re: Bad diesel?

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For the past 7 years I have had a Chevron card through work and fill up my work truck with gas at chevron. Chevrons handel for diesel however is green. So one day I am with my Paj at a husky and pull up to the green pump in a hurry. Woops... Husky green is petrol and yellow is diesel. Didn't see the yellow just instinctly went with green. Long and short, no harm done on an older model diesel like these, just drain the tank, fill it with good diesel and seafoam it. All is fine so long as you didn't run the whole tank through. The petrol dries out seals and strips lubrication. So maybe dump in a litre of canola oil too just to lube stuff up well.
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Re: Bad diesel?

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FalcoColumbarius wrote:
yojimbo wrote:I was kind of thinking it might be something like that, mine doesnt have one, but I thought I'd read somewhere of their existence. I'm used to seeing them on old landies though.

After all, a choke on a diesel doesn't make sense.
1992 and earlier. The MLB has one (hand throttle).

Falco.
Strange huh, I mean, they dont use it for PTO like on a landy.

Also I 'm OCD with petrol vs diesel, I take the cap off and do a visual check that the vehicle says Diesel or Unleaded and match it to the lettering on the pump handle before I pour.

But I also check doors are locked more than once too, like it will change if I only check once :?
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Re: Bad diesel?

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yojimbo wrote:
Strange huh, I mean, they dont use it for PTO like on a landy.

Also I 'm OCD with petrol vs diesel, I take the cap off and do a visual check that the vehicle says Diesel or Unleaded and match it to the lettering on the pump handle before I pour.

But I also check doors are locked more than once too, like it will change if I only check once :?
I fully understand what you mean, I'm like that, too. Check, double check, did I check? Let me make sure... The odd thing is, is when I was growing up in the sixties and seventies* ~ we never locked doors. In fact we would leave the doors of the house wide open if we were going out for the day to air the house out. Now we live in a world of "security". Live in fear. Not sure I like living in this brave new world :? .

Falco.

*In fact I didn't actually grow up in the sixties and seventies, I think I started growing up in the late nineties. Perhaps that's my problem ~ maybe if I never grew up I'd be living in a better dream world :wink: .
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