Thread: stolen diesel

Originally Posted by gonetropo

knew of a guy years back who accidentally topped up the engine oil in his mazda rotary with roundup. was a real mess

It must have been done at night, roundup even as a concentrate behaves nothing like engine oil at all.

I heard of a situation years ago where a guy was getting firewood stolen. Put up with it for a while. Then decide to find out who it was.
Put a detonator in one of the huhu holes and plugged it up.
A while later his kids came home from school with a story about someone's fireplace blowing up.
Gotcha.

Karma is a wonderful thing!

What would happen if you were mixing water with the diesel?

What would happen if you were mixing petrol with diesel?

Originally Posted by Friwi

What would happen if you were mixing water with the diesel?

What would happen if you were mixing petrol with diesel?

Petrol in Diesel has a similar result to AdBlue but not quite to the same extent. Usually can get away with a fuel system flush but once again if the engine has been run until it has stopped then a lot of fuel system parts will require replacing, although it really depends on the ratio of petrol to diesel.

I believe water in diesel will just make the engine stop and not much else although the fuel system would still need a flush out.

In a real modern diesel if it got past the fuel filter/ water separator if will stuff the high pressure injectors, seen it happen in the four wheel drive club

It was more where it was left and if they had just taken the diesel and left the containers it would have been oh well shit happens, to be honest haven't check the machine yet. which was all locked up including cab.

Originally Posted by Ryan_Songhurst

If you're buying fuel off some bottom dweller with a heap of old drench containers full on the back of their ute you probably deserve to have your gear fucked also

Agree

Apparently Brasso works a treat in removing the cylinder linings, just something I heard....

I had a thing when I first started with a guy in contracting, we were running a little honda motor to run one of the little bits of gear as well as a bigger diesel powered pump. Needed to refuel the Honda at regular intervals, grabbed the petrol can and filled it up all day and just about used the 20L can.

End of the day, ready for the diesel powered pump - Boss "where's the f**ken diesel, the diesel can is EMPTY!!!!!"...

Um, dunno, did you fill it up? Hang on, the yellow container is full! Boss: "That's petrol!" - with a look on his face like what kind of halfwit have I hired that doesn't know that!

Rest of the crew looks at me, looks at the full yellow can I'm holding, looks at the Honda (still running happily I might add), looks at the completely confused look on my face (total does not compute) and then back at the boss and as one they all start cracking up. Leading hand picks up the yellow can, reads it out in front of the boss - "D - I - E - S - E - L"... Um, not the new guys fault there boss chortle chortle...

So probably no point mixing petrol in the diesel as unless the thing is a relatively modern one you need a lot of petrol in there to make sure that the thing it's getting tipped in will actually stop. Some things are very tolerant of crappy fuel! Better option I think is something like the red dye that some people use in process diesel to ensure the fuel is mixed in - that will ensure that the evidence is right the way through the engine and fuel system of whoever is flogging the fuel and it can't be removed. Won't damage it, so no issue there but the evidence is plain and undeniable that the fuel could only have come from that source and it's hot as hell. Combined with CCTV or trailcam footage - got yas.

I work for one of the big four oil companies. As above, Adblue will fark everything. Whole fuel system at a minimum needs replacing.
I’ve seen a few of the reports come through for insurance purposes.

Originally Posted by McNotty

I work for one of the big four oil companies. As above, Adblue will fark everything. Whole fuel system at a minimum needs replacing.
I’ve seen a few of the reports come through for insurance purposes.

Yep heard of some $25k insurance claims for adblu in the diesel tank

Youd have to pull stuff apart to catch the guy and then what, if hes unlucky might get a severe lashing with a wet bus ticket. Personally Id get more satisfaction knowning his gear is fuked.

Sugar or fine metal filings.

your not going to fuck an engine by adding a bit of petrol to diesel. go ask my wife how we know...

In the old days in colder countries petrol was sometimes added as an "additive" to prevent the diesel from freezing by the way...

good luck catching/punishing these low lifes.