WTF.... Shoot or divorce??

Borrowed the the wife my freelander earlier..(only the second time)..she's a mile from home and the fuel light comes on, so she does me a favour and puts £20.00 in the tank.

thats a first

Turns out just before she got home it started driving like a dog.......she has put
£20.00 of unleaded in my td4:doh:

Any advice on what to do i.e brim it with diesel or drain the tank..etc


thanks for any help

might save the wife

Rag in fiila neck add lighter and leave!

drain it out, fill with diesel, bleed the system through and pray that no damage has been caused

give er a medal fer killin a gaylander

whats the best/easiest way to drain it?

i reckon theres about 25 litres of diesel and 16 litres of petrol in it

brim it to the top with (diesel) and keep toping it up believe petrol lighter then diesel so diesel should drop to the bottom where pump should take fuel from

gjudge said:

brim it to the top with (diesel) and keep toping it up believe petrol lighter then diesel so diesel should drop to the bottom where pump should take fuel from

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snigger

gjudge said:

brim it to the top with (diesel) and keep toping it up believe petrol lighter then diesel so diesel should drop to the bottom where pump should take fuel from

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If that's the case, you should email Shell and all the other oil companies out there. They've been using costly fractional distillation to separate the components out of crude oil for ages, rather than simply leaving them in a tank and allowing them to settle!

paul_c said:

If that's the case, you should email Shell and all the other oil companies out there. They've been using costly fractional distillation to separate the components out of crude oil for ages, rather than simply leaving them in a tank and allowing them to settle!

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fookerinell.......Dr paul_c I presume

i dont know freelanders but i guess there must be a way of getting the old fuel out, dont throw the old mixed fuel out tho, one of us tractor boys will take it off your hands

can anyone tell me how to drain it?

pardec said:

can anyone tell me how to drain it?

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try useing a straw

if no other known way take off the fuel pipe at some point, then buy a cheap pump and pump it out with that, DONT FORGET THE TRACTOR BOYS we like crap fuel

robint said:

try useing a straw

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Poor fecker, ya should have told him

robint said:

try useing a long straw

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i'd syphon it out, but isn't there an anti-syphon device in the filler neck?

Siphen it out from the intank fuel pump.
When you refill with diesel run it for a few tank fulls ,then change the oil.Pettol will make its way past the rings and thin the oil.

i dont think you can as modern cars have that anti syphen neck

Is there not an access for the tank sender unit under the back seat? Could you not syphon it from there?

Yes

OldIrishWulf said:

Yes

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Then that's your answer then! I knew I'd seen or heard that somewhere on here before! Cheers OdIrishWulf for confirming it!

LOOK UNDER THE BACK SEAT!!

PS. Nice pic Wulf!!!!