Misfuelled my Turbo Diesel Engine

Had a friend who did the same to his LandCruiser (but only for a few kilometers) and he said it has never run better! Must have cleaned his injectors :-)) Hope thats all thats happened with yours. Surely after 400kms you can give your 1Kz a clean bill of health.

I filled my Hilux tank from almost empty. Got about 2 kms and it stopped with a motor warning light up. Someone put the wrong hose in the slot. Must have been in La La land not to notice the different colour, smell and lack of froth. RACV picked up car. Mechanic drained and refilled. What a waste of money and they really stang me for their time. That was abot 30,000 kms ago. No problems. Car done 210,000 kms now and running great. The difference is that maybe you ran a diluted lot through whereas mine just stopped.
Good luck. Hopefully there's no damage. If it ran fine after I would expect the same result as mine.

Chenj3

In a word none. The petrol has less lubrication for the injection system and it would have heated up your exhaust valves but if it now runs ok you have not done any damage. What you did is a common practice for shonky car yards to decoke an old motor, usually they drive a hole tank full not just 12 k. Enjoy your new year. Eric.

Yes,
Probably no damage.
A friend did it on his Patrol some time ago and no ill effects resulted.
But don't try that with a new "common rail" type diesel or you'll do thousands of dollars damage.
RACQ did a report on it in the latest "Road Ahead" magazine.

Ditto to all the rest.

You got a tough donk there. Good injection system.

I would personally avoid that mechanic. Sounds like he may be trying to butter you up.

If there was an issue to be had you would have lost your exhaust values through the turbo on that 400 k's back home.

Jason

!MPG:6!What happens when you are too busy looking at the scenery

I think it will depend on the compression ratio. I had it done to me in alice in 1987 had a series 3 landrover with a perkins retro fit diesel. The bloke put 4.5 litres of petrol in a 75 litre tank. Stupid me said it would be ok as i was going home via the bitumen and could be kind on the peddle . I had a trailer with fuel in it and a fuel hose between trailer and landy, where i could transfer fuel through on the run.
I did this and took it easy out of alice for half a day, it knocked a little bit, but got better.
Later on in the trip oil pressure went up, loss of power and a lot of blue smoke.
We towed it home ,yes about 2 thousand K's. All the pistons had cracks in them , some you could put a hacksaw blade down. Cost a lot of money.

Did it twice to the old 1HZ powered troopy, about 12 -15 l in a 90 l tank, just ran it till it coughed and then swapped to the other tank, topped the tank with the petrol up regularly until there would have been no trace of petrol, no harm done, just would have cleaned the injectors!
I will be probably be ok.

I put about 25 ltrs of ulp in my series 2 Disco.Toped up the rest of the tank with deisel about 50ltrs .Drove home no problems. Kept topping up regularly to dilute the petrol.Different mechanics have said have conflicting verdicts on what problems might happen.

Mike

On a similar note....the ONLY thing ive ever seen stop a 202 holden was a tank full of diesel.....it ran till the guy got to work...but after he turned it off, it never ran again.....the exhaust manifold was glowing red (after the smoke discipated that was coming out the exhaust pipe)

I read recently that ULP is a real no no in the new common rail diesels. RACQ recommends that you don't even start it if you realise the error while at the service station. If you have to move it, push or tow they say.

May be being a bit over cautious, but the report I read (in recent Open Road mag), was very specific on common rail motors. I've got one, so I hope I never make the error.

Thanks to all replied. now I feel much reliefed.
I drove my Hiace van up to Lamington National Park (1200 meter altitude) yesterday and it did it effortlessly as it did before, without losing any power or any vibration.

Thanks again to all.