Desil and the gas engine.

[Mike Burnham]

I have been riding for many years now, with breaks to eat, sleep, work and well you get the picture. When I ws a novice in my first year, I use to pull up to the first pump with a good price and fill it up. My Honda CM250 simply needed 86 or better octane fuel. It wa after I had it about 7 months that desil pumps started apearing at gas stations. They used the same knozzels as gas pumps, and I never locked at what the pump said, a I could always use any gas at a gas station. So the first time I incountered a desil pump, I just did what I always did and saw a good price. After filling the bike up I drove off. I remember the look of astonishment on people faces that this little bike ran on desil, but I wa realy dumb. I did get about a mile down te road when it died. After rescue from my dad and his pickup, a freind, laughing the whole time helped me drain the fuel tank and flush the carbs, also clean the tank.
I only mention the tail just so you know, sold you ever be found doing something real dumb, that ignorance is bliss untill it leave you stranded.
Just remember to laugh at your mistakes, and most of all learn from them.

[GSXR louis]

Petrol doesn't work in a diesel engine either.
I work in a truck workshop and at least every other week we get called out to a truck with a tank full of petrol and a driver trying to work out how he's going to explain to his boss how he was so dumb.

[Uncle Bob]

On a side note you can go up to about 25% of gas in a diesel engine, that's how to keep a diesel running in 40 below weather.

[Clint]

Can you use petrol in a gasoline engine?

[Mike Burnham]

Originally Posted by Uncle Bob

On a side note you can go up to about 25% of gas in a diesel engine, that's how to keep a diesel running in 40 below weather.

I thought Gas in a desil engine acts like nitrosoxide in a gas engine. I would think with 25% gas in a desil engine it would either blow up, or wear out real fast, but move real fast too.

[Uncle Bob]

I'm not recommending it for anything other than keeping your diesel fuel from freezing up in real cold weather. I have had the unfortunate experience of ice crystals blocking my fuel lines while driving my diesel VW in 30 below weather not once but twice. Now this is not weather you want to be stranded in.

And I do not go up to 25% which my service manager says is the absolute max you should go. My tank holds about 45 liters I add when cold two or three liters or regular gas, have not had any coldweather fuel problems since I started this and only do it if the temps drop down to about 20 below Celcius ( 0 F ).