hands of more than hello everyone and welcome this really talking about what
happens when you put gasoline in a diesel car now why you do this you know
there's not really a good reason but someone might know by accident or maybe
intentionally or maybe they just didn't know when they thought any fuel work
absolutely you know we've seen sort of all the range of people miss fueling
their cars anything from some gas stations have green punk covers for
diesel and some have yellow so that's a confusing thing we had a customer is low
in their car out to their friend and the first tho up their friends doing a real
nice thing build their little their car tomorrow their car and they did a real
nice thing by friends and their friends filled their car with gasoline on the
very first bill up and we've even had where they just didn't want to they did
it very possible sometimes you don't want the details but the point is is
that you've actually dealt with this shop anytime you know you have to take
care of it and so we're gonna do is walk through the different components and
what will fail and what you'll have to deal with when the customer brings in
the car that has done this yet so get started with the fuel tank does anything
bad happen if I stick diesel fuel and gasoline in a diesel tank generally with
the tank itself nothing bad happens it's it's a plastic tank so not really
plastic but composite it's a composite thank you and it holds up just fine to
gasoline what we will do is remove the in-tank pump and clean any remaining
gasoline out of the tank ok now that in turn pump as you mentioned as anything
having with that are you can you still reuse it most of the time you can reuse
the in-tank pump it really depends on how much gasoline was pumped through it
isn't that usually depends on how long the car was cranked well not starting
because it was ok so from that intent palm pilots traveling through some
people lie to the filter and as far as a few lines themselves is there any
problem
with gasoline and diesel fuel lines now these lines we actually will replace
these are under headlines the lines from the tank up into the engine compartment
we won't replace those generally will flush that would break cleaning
compressed air to get gasoline but usually those holed up just fine but
once we get to the fuel filter housing we do replace the entire housing as well
as the filter you can see there's valving inside of the filter housings we
want to make sure we don't leave any gasoline inside of that as well as the
rubber lines due to possible gasoline containing any problem with using brake
cleaner through those those lines you know we're not leaving it sitting there
for any length of time it's spray very clean and then compressed error rate so
the fuel filter itself does this have to get replaced just comes as an assembly
so we replace all of it it's got the filter been ok to it so from the fuel
filter we move on to the electronic pump what happens when you got gasoline in
this with gasoline inside the electronic pump it isn't able to have the
lubricating properties like diesel fuel does so we go ahead and replace that not
only you know a lot of the stuff is we replaced it may not be let's say dead
today but we worry about long-term effects right so essentially what you're
doing it when you put that gasoline is increasing the wear rate for that
duration and decreasing the lubrication properties yes I these pumps ok that
makes sense so from here we travel to the high pressure pump right here we
travel we go to the high pressure pump this is what jumps obviously the fuel
pressure up their driven by the timing belt this one did have metal
contamination what will generally do very first thing to do this is a car
that had the wrong fuel in it yes this is out of a car that had the wrong fuel
in it as well as a technician that tried to cut apart
I might be the technician so what happens with this you replace this we
absolutely replace this this is usually where the metal fragments come from it's
a failure of this pump internally and what we'll do is we'll pull this valve
off the top of the pump and as you take the pump valve off the pump you'll see
embedded in the screen metal particles of metal particles coming from coming
from this pump this point of failure and like all of the components in here what
what's what's wearing actually ever had a part in it could be bearing material
cause remember we're not having anything to lubricate these parts like we do when
we had diesel
any of the components of metal-on-metal contact your gonna be having more where
because you don't have the lubrication for the diesel fuel and most of these
actually do have to go back to the manufacturer so we are very fortunate to
be able to have to pump sitting here on the bank I'm pretty excited about having
them near 22 ok so from the high pressure fuel pump we of course go to
the fuel rail right and what happens with this guy with the fuel rail is
pieces of metal embedded into the rail obviously this is a closed unit we can't
really get inside of it in see any type of damage so we go ahead and replace
that as well and that's when cases done little coming
here and let's just gonna cause problems down the line correct okay and then from
the shore real we move of course to the fuel injectors right and is that the
same issue where you could have metal pieces you can come in here and so you
want to replace these early on we actually weren't replacing the injectors
and almost yeah you know I actually go rock climbing and so it gives me
phenomenal grip strength and obviously huge muscles where you can see what I
had to do to this one to get it separated so if you can impress your
teeth a little bit I did I did yeah we replace the injectors as well for the
same reason all of these parts you really need to think of in this way they
may not be damaged today but the longevity of the part may be
significantly reduced it to be fine for another 10,000 miles right or you know
you could put it on the fragment sitting here and it's waiting to just destroyed
and you're waiting and waiting and finally 10,000 miles later it clogs it
up and then you have other problems or its clubs open which will make for
somebody to have a really bad day loans wherever you are pumped eight hundred or
so far through these high-pressure yeah so it's no joke it's not a joke it's not
a joke you shouldn't put gasoline in your to give folks an idea the
catastrophic damage this really is if someone would have to pay for all of
these parts
you're looking at about $1,000 repair $8,000 and how much of that is parts you
know it's it's about 4,000 and parts of 2,200 in labor depending on the area of
the country you're in the other thing you gotta remember is that when gasoline
and diesel remix there are special disposal processes that has to go
through so
that is actually super sounds like twenty-five dollars a gallon to dispose
of the team's all-time curious obvious since I've got four thousand dollars
$1,000 and generally this costs $1000 well that's a lot of that is need fuel
expenses 25 bucks for a gallon what what happens when you have fourteen times 25
isn't 3,000 well you know I don't match anyways so it's about 800 you can do the
math itself Jason perhaps if we had a whiteboard or we could actually executed
you know 4+1 I usually can do in my head but anyway regardless to be $1,000 value
you know we can agree I think that is an incredibly expensive repair in these
parts of actually come down a lot and it's very simple thing to do to just put
the rock I mean it's not necessarily Volkswagen tries to make it preventable
right so that you don't put the wrong fuel in but it's very easy to put the
wrong fuel in from a you know it doesn't take a genius to figure it out and you
can very easily cost $1000 and think of what happens if the truck killing at the
station this fuels the tank would have seen happen too so it can be any
anywhere along the process can result in this viewing note in used to be this way
the older diesel engines would actually run on gasoline around like crap but
they would run and we would just pump pump pump gasoline output fuel filter in
it and we'll be good to go but today it's quite a bit of a repair so what you
should take away from the video is that you should not put gasoline in your
diesel car which you probably knew beforehand but we may or may not have
known beforehand as the issuance subscribed to charles is channeled
mechanic and I will of course have links all over the place that make it easy to
do that one of the things that they might want to take away but I'm really
well you know I work gloves cuz I was nervous about touching real parts
and we all have our strong points and we all have things like gray hair that kind
of hold us back in my so guys watching and if you have any questions or
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