Thread: Diesels don't run on water I told him........

As a young fella I worked in the Bush in a Hauler crew,one evening doing some overtime one of the fellas told me to do a Oil change on his new to him Cruiser,nice big thing,fancey seats winch etc.Chuffed to bits to be able to drive it,I took it over to the container with all the fluids in it.

After draining the oil and replacing the filter,I filled it up from the big drum marked Delvac XHP.

On the way home,Francis is telling Chaz that I just changed the oil in his wagon

"Where did you get the oil from Mike" asked Chaz
"Delvac drum in the container" I replied

"Thats fucking Barlube bro"

This was the summer time in the central North Island and Fransis was pretty dark,well that Maori went pale as his eyes hardly left the oil pressure gauge on the dash all the way home.

Someone had pumped the barlube into a empty delvac drum for some reason or another and never relabeled it.Usually the barlube drums were solid grey and the delvac drums marked as such.

He never had any problems with the wagon as far as I know.