Back during the change-over period, one of the tests at Arizona emissions testing was to clamp a little piece of lead-sensitive paper to the lip of the tailpipe. If it came away indicating Lead, you failed the test in a particularly expensive fashion.
Yellow. It’s almost always yellow!
You Canadians are weird…
(Yellow, who ever heard of such a thing!)
At BP stations, they’re all green, except for the diesel nozzle. Those are black.
I have been the lucky guy who got to fix these cars numerous times. Gas in diesel, diesel in gas, I have dealt with them both.
In my experience what will be needed:
Both cases
Drain tank
change fuel filter
Flush fuel lines with proper fuel
Gas in diesel
Bleed injection pump
Diesel in gas
New spark plugs or clean the old one.
One suggestion. If you ever do this, tell the service writer. Don’t make us guess, it only drives up your bill.
Hey Rick, GaryT, I once read an article that said if you ever mistakenly put gasoline in a modern diesel car, you shouldn’t even unlock the door! The door unlock primes the diesel fuel pump in some vehicles, which will get bolloxed by gasoline.
I have a modern diesel and it sounds like this could be true. When I unlock the door I hear a noise that sounds like liquid being forced into something - always assumed it’s the fuel pump being primed.
That was the point, for a lot of people. The common wisdom was that the evil catalytic converter that had been forced upon us by our automotive oppressors to make us buy more expensive unleaded gasoline would be “burned out” by running a few tank fulls of leaded through it. Many people I knew, my father included, did this right off the bat…and even modified the fill neck on the gas tank to take leaded on our new chevy station wgaon. Gas stations sold catylitic converter replacement pipes…to put in place while having your converter tested…that were a direct bolt in replacement so you could get rid of the thing once and for all.
I still remember my friends dad buying a new truck for his construction business and removing the smog pump belt within hours of getting it home. Emissions controls were to be rebelled against.
I wish I had all the hours back that I had to spend re-connecting all the emssions hoses on my dads chevy pickup after I inherited it. It barely ran until I did so. it had this bastard child varijet carb and the infamouse Pulsed Air Injection Reaction system instead of a smog pump…