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Hi..I would be extremely grateful if anybody could help..My elderly neighbour has filled his Commodore Berlina 3.0_Electronic Injection with diesol instead of Petrol...Apparantly he has had all the diesol drained out and replaced with petrol and has used some type of "injection help"...It appears to be on the point of firing up when turned over but just will not start..I am not much help to him and I thought that by asking on this forum somebody may just have an answer to help instead of the alternative of putting his car into a garage which quite frankly could be beyond his means...
Apparantly if his car would just fire up and go..running it could get it back to normal again...
Any suggestions would be gratefully appreciated..
Thanks HK.
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Sounds odd. Teh diesel should dillute the petrol anyway. Electric fuel pump..no issue, or filter. UNLESS when it got dieso it got a HUGE dump of water with it. That will NOT make it start.
Disconnect fuel line at engine to external hose and see when th
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That should read "The petrol should dillute the diesel anyway"
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hey hairy,
I am not sure what is stopping it from going, but after having put a petrol engine in a diesal car, and draining the diesal out, and then putting petrol in the same tank,, it has taken forever to get rid of the leftover diesal, so when you do |
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i did the same thing when i was young.VL Commodore. the diesel fouled the plugs and was thin enough to make the oil yukkie also. so i drained out the tank and got a jerry can full of pertrol and put it the tank. pulled the fuel line off the fuel rail and
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if it tried to run with dieseol the diesel smothers the plug a bit like it oiling up rip em out clean them off crank it with out plugs and you should be fine
if your lazy (As I am)you might want ot have a crack of cranking it over with carby clean dow |
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Hi Thanks for all the replies...I printed them out and gave them to my neighbour ...He had a friend working on his car and after new spark plugs and and with your help managed to get it going ....Once going any diesel has now smoked its way out and I am s
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