One of my friends (a girl) put some diesel in her 2001 civic. She then realized it but still drove to her apartment because she said it was only 3 miles away from the gas station. I told her to get someone to syphen it out but she said theres an anti-syphen thing on it???? Anyways, I'm gonna change the fuel filter tomorrow. What else should I do/ look for?

 

you can drop the gas tank if there is an anti-syphen thing.. and change the spark plugs.

 

cant you just pull the fuel pump out and syphen it out from inside the car?

 

anything else? thanks for the replies

 

How many gallons of diesel fuel are we talking about here?

Regards,

Oz

 

theres a drain plug on the gas tank

 

A full tank's worth

 

i thought the diesel hose ends were slightly bigger? seemed like i absent mindedly tried to do that once... she must have tried extra hard

 

Yea she said she forced it in hard

 

take out the tank and get some compressed air on the fuel lines to blow them out. There has to be diesel residue in them, and even if you get it out of the tank, it'll still be there.

 

once you ge tall the diesel out, you will still have to run about a tanks worth of gas through the lines to completely get ALL the diesel out

 

women (shakes head)

sorry i can just picture her sayin man its not goin in right... i guess i just HAVE TO JAM IT in there HARDER!!

 

There is a drain bolt on the tank. Its on the left rear corner on the EG's I don't know exactly where it would be on the 2001.

Mike

 

I just don't get it. She's smart enough to know that there's an anti-siphen mechanism on the car but not smart enough to know that when a gas nozzle won't fit in the car, you don't JAM it in there and that if you DID fill up your car with diesel, you don't DRIVE OFF anyway???

 

i wanna know how the hell she fit the diesel nozzle into the unleaded filler?

 

Dude unless you're getting a BJ from this friend as a favor, you should make her do all that crap like climbing under the car and getting dirty.

All gas tanks can be drained by removing a bolt somewhere on the bottom of the tank...same concept/procedure as changing the oil.

 

OH my, chick logic

 

She said the nozzle for the diesel was blue. Most diesel nozzles that I've seen are green but she took the blue handle without reading

 

What??? I hear that from women all the time


sorry, the child in me couldn't resist

 

thats what i thought i fill up my work truck which is a diesel and all i ever see are green handles