Dear Steptoe.....Please help, I am a Dickhead !!

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Scotland weekend last weekend, my mates were coming around for me at 08:30 but I'd been up since the crack of sparrow fart as I was so excited, so I thought I'd nip around the garage and fill the BM up ( was taking the BM because of the dodgy weather forecast ) Now I normally put Shell Advance 5 star in it, but the garage around the corner is BP, so I put 14 litres of BP Advantage in it thinking it was their 5 star equivalent..........wrong!!

Bike spluttered to a halt around the corner and the horrible truth dawned on me that BP Advantage is diesel!!!.....Arrghh!! :mad:

The shame of being transported 2 miles back home!! :tears



How the hell do I sort this out ??

Is it just a matter of draining the tank, taking plugs out to clean them and then filling back up with petrol and cranking it through, or is there something more complicated to it??

The fuel filter in the tank is overdue a change so I might as well get stuck into that and do it at the same time?

Had to swap horses pretty quickly and set off on my little red rocket 2 hrs behind the guys, no prizes for guessing where this is??



Prefer not getting the Duke up the eyes of sh1te but it did a cracking job over the weekend, and turned in 54.8 mpg on a steady ride back home!!

Now where's me drain can.....

P.S. how the hell do you rotate I phone pics :nenau
 
This has worked for me and others. You will need a can of easy start. It's an either based product. Drain tank. Fill with whatever petrol you like. Find air intake and aim spray of easy start into it while starting engine. The idea is for the engine to run on easy start till it clears the diesel in the system and runs on petrol. Prepare for smoke!!! ⚠️ this is a bodge and while I know it works I'm not giving anyone a blank cheque in case it dosent work or blows a cylinder head into the next street. JJH
 
A guy did exactly the same thing last year in Morocco filling his new Africa twin with the green nozzle, that was actually Diesel, colours mean nothing over there. Siphoned the whole lot out and refilled with petrol, luckily he hadn't tried to start it. It wasn't happy for a while but eventually ran normally, he learned a valuable lesson and no doubt some Moroccan got some free fuel.
 
I filled up with Shell V Power, ................. Diesel :blast

Read the sorry tale here http://www.ukgser.com/forums/showthread.php/433450-Help-broken-down

You may need a couple of flushes to get it out of the tank and you will probaly need easy start as suggested

My bike being a 1100RT I wanted to sort it with the tank in place as on a garage forecourt and did'nt want to remove the whole fairing just the offside.

disconect fuel pipe and pump it out on fuel pump



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Santa-2512 said:
You are mere babes in the world of putting the wrong stuff in the wrong tank

I give you NOS :)

http://www.gixxer.com/forums/27-any...wont-start-after-using-nos-fuel-additive.html



Mart :)
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That reminds me of one I came across on another forum a few years ago. Some guy put Dipetane fuel additive in the tank of his bike and it suddenly wouldn't start. Various members of the forum were trying to help him get it sorted. It became apparent that he just found the stuff sitting in his father's garden shed and decided to pour it into the tank. When he mentioned that it was a white powder, a few people told him that Dipetane isn't a powder, it's a liquid. After a bit of speculation, one member asked "It wasn't by any chance Dithane, the fungicide, you put into the tank - because that's a white powder". :blast
 
Finally got around to sorting the BM out last night...

Drained 14 ltrs of diesel out and transferred it to the car..
Took the plugs out and spun the engine over to purge the fuel pump / injectors..
Dried the plugs off heated them with a lighter and replaced...
Took lid off airbox and put a good spray of "Easy start" directly into airbox...
Part filled tank with 5 star..
Crossed fingers..

Hit the started button and after a lot of coughing and spluttering and farting ( but enough about me!! )...... it fired into life as lumpy as hell on one cylinder, chucking out clouds of smoke,
had to hit the button another 6 or 7 times before it seemed to pull some decent fuel through and run ok, ran it up and down the street a few times much to the neighbours delight as I'd filled the street with thick blue smoke!!

Looked like a scene from the "Titfield Thunderbolt"!!

Back in the game!!...
 
A mate filled his Triumph sprint from the black nozzle and missed his ferry to Santander. He caught up three days after the ferry arrived having driven through France after a different Ferry crossing. He is forever known as Mr Diesel
 
Poucher said:
Scotland weekend last weekend, my mates were coming around for me at 08:30 but I'd been up since the crack of sparrow fart as I was so excited, so I thought I'd nip around the garage and fill the BM up ( was taking the BM because of the dodgy weather forecast ) Now I normally put Shell Advance 5 star in it, but the garage around the corner is BP, so I put 14 litres of BP Advantage in it thinking it was their 5 star equivalent..........wrong!!

Bike spluttered to a halt around the corner and the horrible truth dawned on me that BP Advantage is diesel!!!.....Arrghh!! :mad:

The shame of being transported 2 miles back home!! :tears



How the hell do I sort this out ??

Is it just a matter of draining the tank, taking plugs out to clean them and then filling back up with petrol and cranking it through, or is there something more complicated to it??

The fuel filter in the tank is overdue a change so I might as well get stuck into that and do it at the same time?

Had to swap horses pretty quickly and set off on my little red rocket 2 hrs behind the guys, no prizes for guessing where this is??



Prefer not getting the Duke up the eyes of sh1te but it did a cracking job over the weekend, and turned in 54.8 mpg on a steady ride back home!!

Now where's me drain can.....

P.S. how the hell do you rotate I phone pics :nenau
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If you really want to feel a dickhead try doing it twice; :D the good news is; drain the tank; fill with petrol and make sure the battery is in good nick ; the diesel is only very light oil and wont hurt the motor.
Poucher said:
Scotland weekend last weekend, my mates were coming around for me at 08:30 but I'd been up since the crack of sparrow fart as I was so excited, so I thought I'd nip around the garage and fill the BM up ( was taking the BM because of the dodgy weather forecast ) Now I normally put Shell Advance 5 star in it, but the garage around the corner is BP, so I put 14 litres of BP Advantage in it thinking it was their 5 star equivalent..........wrong!!

Bike spluttered to a halt around the corner and the horrible truth dawned on me that BP Advantage is diesel!!!.....Arrghh!! :mad:

The shame of being transported 2 miles back home!! :tears



How the hell do I sort this out ??

Is it just a matter of draining the tank, taking plugs out to clean them and then filling back up with petrol and cranking it through, or is there something more complicated to it??

The fuel filter in the tank is overdue a change so I might as well get stuck into that and do it at the same time?

Had to swap horses pretty quickly and set off on my little red rocket 2 hrs behind the guys, no prizes for guessing where this is??



Prefer not getting the Duke up the eyes of sh1te but it did a cracking job over the weekend, and turned in 54.8 mpg on a steady ride back home!!

Now where's me drain can.....

P.S. how the hell do you rotate I phone pics :nenau
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Poucher, just to let you know it hasn't done any lasting harm, had a nice day out today taking a pair of boots to Altberg to be resoled. It's running nicely.AD24D913-76B4-4193-9103-089699C7200F_1_105_c.jpeg
 
JJH said:
This has worked for me and others. You will need a can of easy start. It's an either based product. Drain tank. Fill with whatever petrol you like. Find air intake and aim spray of easy start into it while starting engine. The idea is for the engine to run on easy start till it clears the diesel in the system and runs on petrol. Prepare for smoke!!! ⚠️ this is a bodge and while I know it works I'm not giving anyone a blank cheque in case it dosent work or blows a cylinder head into the next street. JJH
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There isn’t actually any need for the easy start. This is quite an old thread but someone pointed out that if you repeatedly switch on and off the pump will prime itself repeatedly and purge the neat diesel till it has a good dilution of petrol. JJH
 
c2001, on a trip to France, UKRM members were staying in a Logis on the aptly named Rue du Dronckaert just outside Lille when a Pan Euro rider popped along the road to a 24/7 automat fuel station. It was a truck only place but he did not work that out. He recognized the yellow gazole/diesel pump and assumed the blue one was petrol as there wasn't a green one. Turns out it was paraffin and he rode a few miles before there were clouds of smoke and a very poorly motor.
He is am eminent academic in fluid mechanics at Bath University, but can't tell the difference between hydrocarbons!
 
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