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WhistlinDiesel

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So I took my truck to the local gas Station to fill up…rode fine there and on my way home is was bogging down be egt was way over and I got home and I was leaking fluid from my gas tank. I have a receipt that I got diesel and got it at a diesel pump and I got it syphoned out and this is what came out. Definitely not diesel and had alot of back pressure and squirted out of the tank. What should I do as far as cleaning the system? Any ideas what it could be? I got it at a shell
 

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You said it isn't diesel so what does it smell like? Did it have water in it? The picture isn't quite enough to know what was pumped into your truck. Was it possibly mix with regular gasoline? I doubt it's anything crazy like a terrorist gas tank filler but as far as removing it i'd get a small pump and remove as much as possible into a tank and see if it separates water out of it.

Also a lot of pressure building up in the fuel tank doesn't sound right either...

Maybe someone else can chime in on this
 

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Gas in a small quantity is not going to hurt anything. Drain the tank, fill it up with real diesel, fire it up, your ruff run problems should go away in a minute or two. EGT going nuts tells me the gas ratio was a bit high.
 

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That’s the problem we have no idea what it is at all. Should I replace my fuel pump? I drained the tank and replaced the filter. Anything else I should do to help it?
 

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We are opened a case on them and had someone sent out to inspect the tanks and the fluid shipped to a lab. If we find anything, but diesel we are filing a law suit against them. I really don’t give a crap about the truck or the money… I just wanna prove a point and make sure it doesn’t happen to anyone else that is to scared to stand up to them.
 

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No need to clean anything, just empty as much you can and refill it to the brim with some high quality diesel and it will flush that all away.
 

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We are opened a case on them and had someone sent out to inspect the tanks and the fluid shipped to a lab. If we find anything, but diesel we are filing a law suit against them. I really don’t give a crap about the truck or the money… I just wanna prove a point and make sure it doesn’t happen to anyone else that is to scared to stand up to them.
Have you gotten any news back yet? I've gotten bad fuel plenty of times from the stations around me but never did try to fight it.

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Have you gotten any news back yet? I've gotten bad fuel plenty of times from the stations around me but never did try to fight it.

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Yeah, so that’s sent my injectors off to get tested and should get a response today.

The case with the people who inspect the tanks closed their case and we filed one with the department of agriculture and can file for a open records tomorrow. We also sent the fuel we pulled straight from the pump 15 mins after the incident and sent that to a lab and are waiting. Once everything comes back we are filling a lawsuit against them and using the money to have my engine repaired. How have you dealt with bad fuel? Was it water in the fuel or fuel mixed? The guy was lying like crazy he says they hadn’t had a tanker in weeks then said the had one 3 days before the incident and I called him out and he said he was confused. I told that toothless mountain dew drinking ****** jesus is our savior that he knows he messed up and we are coming for him
 

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I had water in my fuel. I had gotten bad fuel twice from in town. A CEFECO and a Valero. I think the bad fuel came from the Valero. Water in fuel was my issue. Luckily I had a double w/s filter in series, and it caught all the water. The engine would just stall from lack of fuel because the w/s was catching so much. I was having to stop every odd mile to drain the filters.

I'm curious how this goes for you, because next time it happens with me I'd like to resolve it with the station.

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We took the fuel to them and they refunded the money hoping we wouldn’t sue (still are suing) Id personally take the truck to them and show them all the water and ask for a refund for fuel and the filters. That’s what we did for the fuel but suing for the rest. I’m so pissed off….I’m a 16yr old saved for this truck for a long time working summers and every chance I got, finally got my licenses and this happens. My luck is so bad it’s unreal. There’s a lot more playing into it past this, but the engine was puffing white smoke and and had back pressure put the gas tank.
 

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Sounds like the station is just trying to capitalize on already high fuel prices and stretch that fuel for as much money as they can. Sleezy ****. Hope you get it worked out man.
 

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Has any of you all used shells video fuel? He says something about “super diesel fuel” and that’s shells “high end” brand of diesel. I could also do for them not marking their fuel buttons properly and it not saying what is suppose to dispense
 
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