I thought i'd share with you gentilmen, (and ladies) my day at the pumps today.... it was the end of a long, cold day at work.... and with the wind chill, it felt like maby 6* outside.... anyways i jumped in my truck and it fired right up... noticed it was a little low in the juice department... so i decited to run down to mobile and get some fuel.... I pull into the station and start to pump, and this pump had a nossle on eather side, as well as other nossles (for this strange fuel i guess is called Gass-o-lean??) I'm not to sure about that gas.... strange stuff....getting back to my story... so as i'm filling, a toyota tundra pulls into the opposite side of the pumps, and not to be steriorypical, but a guy all done up on his "clean" work closes jumps out of his truck... (u know the kind... the ones that wear work boots, and don't know the meaning of the word work) and starts to chat with me, i decide not to be a jerk so nod my head at what he is saying.... about 5 seconds later he reaches over for the yellow DIESEL nossle and puts it into his filler..... quickely i shouted, "Hey when did Toyota start making the tundra with a diesel motor?" the guy looked at me with a surprised look and replied, "what do you mean, it's not diesel!!" to which i replied, "well you better switch pumps, because you are about to pump 26 gallons of diesel into your truck!!!" He got embarased and turned bright red, jumped in his truck and tore off.....Haha wow that made my night..... just thought i would share this with you!!! I just didn't feel like towing him home because his truck broke down.....

 

Robbgt you are such a nice guy. HeHe that could have been really bad for the guy I bet it would have sounded like a diesel for a minute (HeHe) if he would have filled her up.

 

A little bit of good old american style diesel fuel might of made a real truck out of that rice burner. Atleast it would have smoked like a diesel, for a while.

 

Back In 97 My Wife Filled Our Brand New Minivan With Diesel. They Had A Unleaded Nozzle On The Pump Illegally. She Just Went For The Cheapest Pump. We Still Tease Her About It.

 

About 10 years ago one of my regular customers called me from about 100 miles away with engine trouble in her 72 VW Bug. She had it towed back to the shop and I proceeded to check things out. Broken piston rings. Got the ok to repair the car and started it up. The thing smoked like a chimney and smelled like diesel. I called her and asked her to check her reciept from the filling station. Diesel. She drove 100 miles on a 50% diesel/gas mix and fried the engine. You know the rest of the story, proper fuel and all. Red faced young girl.

 

This might be a good place to ask this:

While filling my diesel for the first time, I filled it until the pump shut off, then went to the next dollar, as usual. I start driving down the road and noticed after about 50 miles that I am down to 3/4 tank. I know I was a victim of the old fuel foaming, but I need some help on how to get the tank all the way full.

Thanks

Frank

 

you can remove the tank and cut some of the vent tube off or do like i do...when the pump cuts off, just take your time and add 3 more gallons real slow. there is a thread that tells you the proceedure on cutting the tube off and how much to cut...do a search if you want to tackle that job.

 

I think I will just use the wait method. Not real big on cutting things that weren't cut at the factory.

Thanks

Frank

 

I was all set to have to break the news to the poor SUV owner who was already pumping diesel into his tank when I pulled up on the other side. Then I noticed it was a Touareg V10 tdi !! Hey, cool! They finally started making those as promised. I asked, and he said yes indeed it was everything all the glowing reviews said it was and more. (Though the pricetag makes a loaded Lariat Dually look cheap...) When he fired it up, it was amazingly quiet but it definitely had that diesel noise to it still.

Duncan

 

Well, I'm glad to hear that Mobil has finally changed their nozzle colors. The Mobil's out here had green handles for their diesel and thier gas for a long while.
Guess what I did? My story started out a lot like yours Robbgt except it was 100 degrees and not 6.
I filled my PSD full of gas. When the tow truck driver showed up he asked me "you got gas at Mobil didn't you?" I replied that I had. He stated that he tows a lot of diesel trucks with gas in them from Mobil stations because of the handle color mix ups. Anyway that was 40000 miles ago but it's still embarassing and pi**es me off!

 

Ah, the benefits of having 2 tanks in a 95'. If you go oops, at least you can drive on the tank you did not fill with gas to a place they can pump the gas out. Not that I have ever done ... lousy darn station with diesel on one side of the pump and gas on the other. Better pick the right handle!

 

heatstroked,

Where is the rest of the picture in your avatar? Come on now, time to start sharing with us.

Grinch, I don't know, I had a 96 f-150 with dual tanks and they had severe cross feed. I would drive till the front was on E, switch to the rear and drive tillit was on E and then swithc back to the front and it would be at more then a 1/2 tank. The rear tank was bleeding into the front when I used it. So if you ever fill with gas (again????) be careful.

BTW, that was a great story. Stupid Toyota truck-wannabe

 

You do not wantto see the rest of it. Heatstroked is originally from Europe and does not shave his legs or armpits.

Just kidding heat, couldn't pass it up.

Fire Rooster

 

hahaha...Actually this is one of hundreds of customers I service in San Diego.
I'm a custom bikini painter. Live, on the beach.

If you look closely, it really says "Food" not Ford!

 

Haha i was thinking about just letting him fill up, But i was in the holiday spirit, so I politely reminded him that toyota doesn't have any diesels in their line up, to my knowlage!!!
HeatStroker...... Are you serious????.....how exactly did you get into that profession....