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Adding 71 liters of gasoline to a diesel engine

Benyamin Davodian
Hello everyone,

This message is for automotive or mechanical engineers only.

pay attention!!!

A customer claims that he accidentally put gasoline in place of a diesel in the Toyota LANCROZER 2008 model

The customer claims a vehicle traveled 14 km until he heard engine noises.

Questions:
  1. Is it possible that a vehicle can travel 14 km?

  • Will the engine work briefly and after a few meters stop?

  • Will the engine not work?

  • I would love to get feedback.


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    There are direct injection petrol engines, and it is possible to modify diesel engines to run on lighter fuels, for example aviation spirit, many military vehicles are like this.

    It is actually very  common in cold countries to add a little petrol to the diesel to get things started in winter, but a small fraction,  perhaps 5% by volume.

    As others have noted, the diesel engine is lubricated by the fuel,and rapidly things will  wear.

    I'd be surprised at 14km, presumably half an hour or so, on pure petrol and not damaging the engine,  but if it was really a mixture with some diesel in the tank,  especially if the petrol sat on top of the heavier oil in the tank, and was not well mixed and not  burnt at first, perhaps.

    This rather silly video tries both petrol in a diesel car, and diesel in a petrol car, and certainly suggests the engines will run for quite a while in both cases, though the running is far from smooth, and there may well be significant  life reduction of the two cars.
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    There are direct injection petrol engines, and it is possible to modify diesel engines to run on lighter fuels, for example aviation spirit, many military vehicles are like this.

    It is actually very  common in cold countries to add a little petrol to the diesel to get things started in winter, but a small fraction,  perhaps 5% by volume.

    As others have noted, the diesel engine is lubricated by the fuel,and rapidly things will  wear.

    I'd be surprised at 14km, presumably half an hour or so, on pure petrol and not damaging the engine,  but if it was really a mixture with some diesel in the tank,  especially if the petrol sat on top of the heavier oil in the tank, and was not well mixed and not  burnt at first, perhaps.

    This rather silly video tries both petrol in a diesel car, and diesel in a petrol car, and certainly suggests the engines will run for quite a while in both cases, though the running is far from smooth, and there may well be significant  life reduction of the two cars.
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