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[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] T4 Owner Jobs done : new UBP, Spy hole mod, Rear hub(wheel bearing),plenum cleaned and emptied, Inline thermostat fitted,Full service, In car Digital tv/DVD Bluetooth Satnav etc, Replaced UBP, Restored headlights,Fixed airbag connection.replaced HP pump,replaced rear light seals,changed intercooler O rings. Jobs to do: ,replace drivers lock,.[/SIZE] |
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30th October 2019, 18:59 | #12 |
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Exactly the scenario of the previous owner of Mrs MB's Classicasseur..........I bought a super low mileage diesel for peanuts, then rebuilt the leaking HP pump
Pump it out, then fill with diesel and you might get away with it Brian |
30th October 2019, 19:05 | #13 |
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Thanks all have passed the replies on. He's been recovered back home and think he's going to get someone to come out and drain all the petrol out
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30th October 2019, 20:03 | #15 |
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Or unplug the fuel outlet pipe from the UBP where it enters the fuel filter and put that in a container.
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31st October 2019, 06:54 | #16 |
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Not that many years ago VW used to tell there customers who lived in very cold parts of the world to put up to 33% of petrol in there diesel to stop it waxing and freezing in the tank.
I know modern diesel is less likely to do this and modern diesel engines are less tolerant to the wrong fuel but I suspect if he could drain 50% of what he has put in there and top it up with diesel he should get away with it. There are companies out there that will do it for you but they usually charge about £100 and keep the fuel. A mate of mine filled his Range Rover with petrol instead of diesel and it was not until it conked out several miles down the road did he realise what he had done, he rung one of these companies who drained out the petrol, put in £10 of diesel and bled the system. His car is still OK and that was over 12 months ago. |
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I would change the in tank fuel pump as well. This has now run on near neat petrol and is likely to be compromised with metal debris being flushed through the whole system . Some can get though the filter. I believe a used discovery 3 I purchased had been run with petrol. All the fuel lines, the in tank pump , the HP pump and injectors were damaged had debris in them . The gauze pick up on the LP pump was full of metal that had gone round the whole loop.
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31st October 2019, 12:16 | #18 |
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recently ive done this...... I put 16.45liters of unleaded into my cdt. I have brimmed it and keep topping it up ive driven from leeds to Birmingham and back and then a 25 mile round trip to work for over a week and it seems to be running like it was before.
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Both the missus (first) then myself accidentally filled our diesel 75 to the brim with petrol.
It’s an easy job to rectify, simply disconnect the pipe prior to the filter and drain the tank into containers. On my second incident after draining the first couple of petrol diesel mixes I put the rest of the pure petrol straight into the tank of my Vitesse sitting alongside. I used a power steering pipe which I still have which mated straight onto the supply pipe at the filter which allowed me to extend the outlet to the containers. Note. Supply of fuel cuts off after around 30 seconds which is a safety issue. Simply switch off ignition and switch back on. On the second mis fill it was at an ex MG Rover garage and the mechanics were suitably impressed with my “mishap and recovery” BTW the couple of petrol diesel mixes weren’t wasted as I ran them through my Vitesse diluted down with full tankfuls of petrol. |
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