Don't think about boats..

[phanakapan]

Don\'t think about boats..

..with diesel engines while you are filling up your petrol powered car. It's just cost me £230 for the pump out of a tank of diesel and a new tank of petrol!- plus a huge delay on my journey from Dartington to Brighton. Am i stupid or what!

 

[Riggy]

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OOOOOOOOOOps
Easily done though. Year ago I had petrol boat and diesel Disco. Filled the Disco up half way with petrol before I realised. Phoned my mechanic...said be ok if topped up with diesel and kept topped up until all petrol burned off. Luckily a diesel will run (just) at that sort of 50/50 ratio mixture but sadly not the other way around.
Good luck with rest of your trip.

 

[Sybarite]

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What about the charter boats where they fill the water tanks with diesel... and vice-versa ?

John.

 

[AlexL]

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don't do it the other way round! petrol in a diesel car will usually cost you a new fuel injection pump - a bargain at about 500 plus quid! I've been warned to be careful on my new boat as I have 3 deck fillers one blue one red one black. My intuition would have told me that blue is water and black is diesel - aparently a previous owner did just that. Black is in fact the holding tank! Red is the fuel.

 

[dk]

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Surely it's not beyond the wit of man to invent, say, a square pump nozzle for diesel and fit all diesel cars and boats with square filler tube necks instead of round. Too logical?

 

[Rowana]

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Just be careful where you fill with diesel. Previous car was diesel, and one day I pulled in to fill up. The diesel hose was the size of an elephant's trunk with a nozzle to match. OK if you have a large truck that can accept umteen gallons per second, but I had great difficulty throttling this beast back enough to allow me to fill up. BTW, It was the only diesel pump on the forecourt.

 

[Kristal]

Square diesel nozzle

...not a half bad plan, that!

A poor friend of mine, recently arrived from Azerbaijan, filled his petrol car with diesel, and was advised by a kindly passer by that he could buy a length of hose from a nearby garden shop with which to syphon the tank.

They didn't, however, give him any pearls of wisdom on how not to swallow any of the stuff. I've never seen someone looking so green.

/<

 

[Danny_Labrador]

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I had seen it done by other people and laughed, once in France with a business contact who filled the forecourt air with previously unheard of French swearwords. The it happened to me, late at night, empty tank filled right up with diesel !
Cast around for a few moments, rang the AA who could only advise a dealer in the morning and I spotted an automatic sump oil change machine – 50p to change your sump oil.
It has a long hollow poker which you stuff down your dipstick hole, press the button and it sucks all you oil out of the engine ready fro a fresh recharge.
Loaded up with £10 worth of 50p’s from the kiosk I set about surreptitiously extracting all the diesel from my fuel tank.
An hour or so later the job was complete. A strange white vapour had started to seep from the skirts of the machine and drift around the forecourt menacingly. I filled up with petrol and made off quickly.
Never been back to the garage.

 

[alex_rogers]

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I worked offshore in Indonesia for a six months with equipment shipped from Europe where all the compressed air inlets were carefully and correctly labelled 'air'. Unfortunately 'air' means 'water' in Indonesian and the inevitable happened everytime.

 

[Pelican]

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Some years ago a hire cruiser arrived in a small harbour on the river Shannon and filled their water tank with petrol....(am talking about 30 and then some years ago)...the (non Irish) crew thought they were clever to open the lower feeder pipe to the engine and drain petrol into the bilge and then pump over the side....unfortunately they forgot to turn off the gas powered fridge in the galley which had...a naked flame!!! BOOOOM and the boat blew up they were lucky to escape with just a few burns...and all the windows in vicinity blown out!
Pelican

 

[AlexL]

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Its not - but it relies on getting the oil companies to change ALL the fuel stations in Europe - not gonna happen. As it is at least one make of filler nozzle commonly used in petrol stations does not actually comply with the relevent ISO standard for geometry anyway
The unleaded nozzle is smaller, so in theory you cannot put the big diesel nozzle in the small aperture in a unleaded car, but of course you can put the small diameter unleaded nozzle in a diesel car.

 

[StugeronSteve]

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"so in theory you cannot put the big diesel nozzle in the small aperture in a unleaded car,"

Sounds like a revival of the KY jelly thread.

 

[Stingo]

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Doesn't only happen with diesel and petrol.

Sue & Anya are off two different cruising boats that were anchored in a bay in Tobago. One night Sue promised Anya that she would give Anya's clan a jar of honey.

The next evening, Anya arrived at the bar and says to Sue "You know that honey you left in the galley for me, well it's off, it was f*****g horrible".

Sue suddenly realised what she had done. She'd forgotten about the honey but remembered that she had also promised to give Anya's husband a little varnish and the only jar available was a empty honey jar.

 

[jimi]

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.. an ex work colleague got his KY Jelly and Deep Heat mixed up at the height of passion ...

 

[Rowana]

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Bet that brought tears to his eyes and colour to his cheeks !

 

[StellaGirl]

Happens to people too...

I got very drunk one night and got my ex boyfriend mixed up with my current boyfriend.....

 

[mirabriani]

Re: Happens to people too...

I bet that is not as terminal as when a husband
mistakes his wife!

Regards Briani

 

[snowleopard]

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i was painting the boat one day and had a pot of red paint in one hand and a cup of coffee in the other. it wouldn't have been so bad if i'd dipped the brush in the coffee. as it was i had bright red teeth for a while.

 

[Sans Bateau]

Re: Happens to people too...

What was your X doing still hanging around?

 

[Stingo]

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[ QUOTE ]
I got very drunk one night and got my ex boyfriend mixed up with my current boyfriend.....

[/ QUOTE ]
Wanna meet up for a drink?