jnl_public
Well-known member
Wrong Fuel, fuel restriction and/or both, 3 questions.
I 'may' have put gasoline in my TDI's tank, drove it about 20 miles and then experienced the engine not igniting during the next start. (I say 'may' because I can not recall if I grabbed the wrong fuel nozzle at the station being absent minded.) But the indicator light was on, low fuel, and I put about 2.5 gallons of 'fuel' in the tank.
1. No doubt there's a thread already discussing ways to remove gasoline from ones TDI fuel system (tank to engine), but I haven't found 'the one' that seems simplified and deemed effective on our site yet. If someone can point me to the thread(s), I'd appreciate it.
On the subject, have folks tried flushing fuel out of the fuel tank by pressurizing the fuel return line from the fuel filter with air and then collecting the fuel from the fuel filter intake line? A video on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWK1MybrNRQ&ab_channel=JakeRobinson
shows this being done.
2. Does this method really work?
3. Lastly, if pressurizing the tank in this manner with a 300psi compressor does NOT produce a flow of fuel (nor can one just siphon fuel from the intake line), what could this portend, a faulty fuel sending unit?
Thank you.
I 'may' have put gasoline in my TDI's tank, drove it about 20 miles and then experienced the engine not igniting during the next start. (I say 'may' because I can not recall if I grabbed the wrong fuel nozzle at the station being absent minded.) But the indicator light was on, low fuel, and I put about 2.5 gallons of 'fuel' in the tank.
1. No doubt there's a thread already discussing ways to remove gasoline from ones TDI fuel system (tank to engine), but I haven't found 'the one' that seems simplified and deemed effective on our site yet. If someone can point me to the thread(s), I'd appreciate it.
On the subject, have folks tried flushing fuel out of the fuel tank by pressurizing the fuel return line from the fuel filter with air and then collecting the fuel from the fuel filter intake line? A video on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWK1MybrNRQ&ab_channel=JakeRobinson
shows this being done.
2. Does this method really work?
3. Lastly, if pressurizing the tank in this manner with a 300psi compressor does NOT produce a flow of fuel (nor can one just siphon fuel from the intake line), what could this portend, a faulty fuel sending unit?
Thank you.
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