Thread: MISFUEL COSTING

At that price it sounds like a new engine!

Nasty bill.

My wife won't put fuel in the D4. Question here is why didn't the missfuel device work?

If it failed then there might be case for this to ne fixed under warranty.

Heres my shopping list when I have to quote for a CR diesel thats swallowed some petrol:

Fuel filter
Injector pump
High pressure hard line from pump to fuel rail
High pressure hard lines from fuel rail to injectors
Fuel injectors
Rocker cover gasket (if applicable)
Injector seat gaskets (usually a copper gasket)
Injector to head seal o-rings
Fuel return line/manifold (some are fragile, Ford Rangers are one that springs to mind)
20L of diesel

dont always use everything, sometimes you can get away with just draining the tank, but its not the best idea....

Originally Posted by mowog

Nasty bill.
Question here is why didn't the missfuel device work?

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It might be worth suggesting he check with his insurance company. Some policies cover damage from misfueling or bad fuel, some don't. No harm in asking.

Insurance companys pay this type of stuff up, I have them pay serval times, we see this alot where I work

Can someone please explain what this "mis fuelling" device is on the D4 that supposedly stops you putting in petrol instead of diesel?? but doesn't seem to work too well.

Is this thing that only allows small hose nozzles into the filler? If so then it is no use at the garages I use because the hose nozzles are all the same size except for high speed truck diesel which has a much larger nozzle.

Thanks

Garry

At your regular city / retail service station the diesel fuel nossle is slightly larger than the petrol ones, being larger it rests against a pair of stops in the misfueling device when filling. The petrol nossles however go past the stops and hit a "trigger" that causes a flap to close off the filler neck. The flap is bright yellow and will usually push the nossle out of the tank when triggered. If one is to persist, the fuel can still be trikled past the flap even without reseting it (special tool provided with every new car to reset it)