Subject vehicle is a 1999 Freightliner FL70 with the Cummins ISB, equipped with a VP44 distributor injection pump. Driver calls me yesterday evening, he is at a gas station and pumped in 2 litres of gasoline into the tank and stopped when he noticed his error. Tank has approximately 60 litres of diesel in it.
Since gasoline is lighter than diesel , I figured the gasoline would mostly stay on top and not get picked up by the transfer pump. I told him to carefully drive back to home base which was about a mile away. I went and pumped out 18 litres of fuel from the top of the tank after the truck had been sitting for about two hours, added about 3 litres of TCW3 oil for lubricity and told the driver to fill up before using the truck again and called it a day.
The only thing I could have done better would have been to have gone directly to the gas station and pumped out some fuel from the top (or all of the fuel). But it was rush hour and it would have taken me an hour to get to the gas station and that busy gas station in the middle of the city would not appreciate a big truck being parked there for an hour plus.
So far the truck has not exhibited any symptoms from having been subjected to this abuse.
Anything else I could have done?
Since gasoline is lighter than diesel , I figured the gasoline would mostly stay on top and not get picked up by the transfer pump. I told him to carefully drive back to home base which was about a mile away. I went and pumped out 18 litres of fuel from the top of the tank after the truck had been sitting for about two hours, added about 3 litres of TCW3 oil for lubricity and told the driver to fill up before using the truck again and called it a day.
The only thing I could have done better would have been to have gone directly to the gas station and pumped out some fuel from the top (or all of the fuel). But it was rush hour and it would have taken me an hour to get to the gas station and that busy gas station in the middle of the city would not appreciate a big truck being parked there for an hour plus.
So far the truck has not exhibited any symptoms from having been subjected to this abuse.
Anything else I could have done?