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Hi, first time post..
Just though Id share an unfortunate experience I had on my way home from work on Friday afternoon.
It'd had been a very trying week and I was well over it, on my way home the fuel light came on but I really just wanted to get home and have a beer! I recalled that I had a few things to do and decided to quickly duck in and fill up.
Being a Friday arvo the general population leaves their brains at work all in a rush to start their weekends, and this Friday was no defferant. I waited and waited in line for one of the fuel bowsers and eventually got my turn.
I looked at the nozzles and as I went to grab one the next car behind me decided that he wanted to see how close he could get to the ass end of my car.. Retard.. Anyways with that small distraction I gone ahead and grabbed the nozzle shoved it in and started pumping. Meanwhile the old lady next to me was struggling with the simple task of placing her nozzle back onto the bowser which took her about four goes.. More distractions and my need for a beer growing i've racked up $187 "click" it's full. I payed and got the hell outta there as soon as I could.
Driving down the road about a km.. Burr burr bup burr??? Wtf..?? My car starts to miss and surge... What is going on here??
And then I've realized.. F@$k me I've just filled my car full of unleaded!!!
Such a sinking feeling and I couldn't believe what I'd done. I immediately pulled up in a parking spot, shut it off and called the Mrs.
"You dickhead" she proceeded to tell me "how much money did you waste?".. Don't worry about that I've said, just grab as me as many jerry cans as you can and the jiggle hose and get down here..
She's come down and it turns out that you can't siphon fuel from a 150 series.. What am I going to do now? I've climbed underneath and looked for a drain plug or something, nothing.
We ended up calling a tow truck so I could get it closer to home and needless to say I nailed quite a few red cans that night.
The next morning, still not sure what to do I had an idea.. I've jumped in the mrs's can and darted down the shops to get some bits and pieces.
I grabbed an inline 12v fuel pump some hose and fitting as well as some wire and alligator clips.
I removed the intake hose from the filter assembly and hooked up the Macgyver inspired pump and ran another hose into the first jerry can..
connected the alligator clips to the battery and vuala!! out comes the poison!!
About an hour and six jerry cans later I put 20L of fresh diesel in and pumped that through as well, changed the filter and put another 20L in.
Nervously started the engine and left it to idle for about 45 mins. It revved slightly higher than usual for the first 5 mins but was back to normal after that.
In summary I still cant believe what I did, but after talking to a few people it appears that this is a pretty common thing. the tow truck driver said he comes across about 1-2 a week which makes me feel a little better.
Anyways one thing I did was to google what to do and how to get the fuel out.. which I didn't have much luck with so this is why i'm writing this story and hopefully for the next poor bastard so they'll know what to do.
Just though Id share an unfortunate experience I had on my way home from work on Friday afternoon.
It'd had been a very trying week and I was well over it, on my way home the fuel light came on but I really just wanted to get home and have a beer! I recalled that I had a few things to do and decided to quickly duck in and fill up.
Being a Friday arvo the general population leaves their brains at work all in a rush to start their weekends, and this Friday was no defferant. I waited and waited in line for one of the fuel bowsers and eventually got my turn.
I looked at the nozzles and as I went to grab one the next car behind me decided that he wanted to see how close he could get to the ass end of my car.. Retard.. Anyways with that small distraction I gone ahead and grabbed the nozzle shoved it in and started pumping. Meanwhile the old lady next to me was struggling with the simple task of placing her nozzle back onto the bowser which took her about four goes.. More distractions and my need for a beer growing i've racked up $187 "click" it's full. I payed and got the hell outta there as soon as I could.
Driving down the road about a km.. Burr burr bup burr??? Wtf..?? My car starts to miss and surge... What is going on here??
And then I've realized.. F@$k me I've just filled my car full of unleaded!!!
Such a sinking feeling and I couldn't believe what I'd done. I immediately pulled up in a parking spot, shut it off and called the Mrs.
"You dickhead" she proceeded to tell me "how much money did you waste?".. Don't worry about that I've said, just grab as me as many jerry cans as you can and the jiggle hose and get down here..
She's come down and it turns out that you can't siphon fuel from a 150 series.. What am I going to do now? I've climbed underneath and looked for a drain plug or something, nothing.
We ended up calling a tow truck so I could get it closer to home and needless to say I nailed quite a few red cans that night.
The next morning, still not sure what to do I had an idea.. I've jumped in the mrs's can and darted down the shops to get some bits and pieces.
I grabbed an inline 12v fuel pump some hose and fitting as well as some wire and alligator clips.
I removed the intake hose from the filter assembly and hooked up the Macgyver inspired pump and ran another hose into the first jerry can..
connected the alligator clips to the battery and vuala!! out comes the poison!!
About an hour and six jerry cans later I put 20L of fresh diesel in and pumped that through as well, changed the filter and put another 20L in.
Nervously started the engine and left it to idle for about 45 mins. It revved slightly higher than usual for the first 5 mins but was back to normal after that.
In summary I still cant believe what I did, but after talking to a few people it appears that this is a pretty common thing. the tow truck driver said he comes across about 1-2 a week which makes me feel a little better.
Anyways one thing I did was to google what to do and how to get the fuel out.. which I didn't have much luck with so this is why i'm writing this story and hopefully for the next poor bastard so they'll know what to do.
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