Same transfer tank for Diesel and Gasoline?

[CharlieS]

A bit of diesel in gas will do no harm. Actually it will do much the same as an upper cylinder lube as well as help keep the valve train clean.
As far as gas in diesel fuel, Years ago Catapiller did a test on truck engines, running as high as 10% gas mixed with fuel and found no harm to the engines after 250K miles. While i'd be hesitant to run that percentage, In the wintertime, in frigid weather we routinely run 1-2% gas in our truck's fuel tanks to prevent fuel from gelling.

 

[LBrown59]

No body mentioned the real danger / concern about this which is using the wrong pump on it!

 

[atgreene]

Won't hurt anything, done it for years. Although Darwin had a point, if you aren't smart enough to know which is which, you'll probably run into issues.:laughing:

You'll be fine.

 

[clemsonfor]

No body mentioned the real danger / concern about this which is using the wrong pump on it!

Meaning you need a pump rated for gas so it dont spark?

Or are you talking about forgetting whats in the tank and using wrong fuel? I think he is just running to town and then filling up his tanks at the house so im sure fuel never rally sits in the transferr tank longenough to forget.

 

[LBrown59]

Originally Posted by LBrown59
No body mentioned the real danger / concern about this which is using the wrong pump on it!
Orginaly posted buy clemsonfor
*Meaning you need a pump rated for gas so it dont spark?
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*Meaning you need a pump rated for gas so it dont spark?

 

[CH4Ohio]

As everyone said, minimize the residual amount and dilute heavily when you change to the other fuel.

You might find it interesting to know that the people you buy fuel from use the same pipeline to transport both diesel and gasoline (and kerosene, jet fuel, etc.). Petroleum pipelines pump slugs of one fuel that fill a pipe for several miles and then batch another type of fuel right behind it in the same pipe with no separation. They route the fuel into separate tanks at the destination fuel depot but there is certainly mixing of the two fuels and dilution of both in the area where they make contact. This is how fuel is pumped across the country. At the end of the day, the small amount of "contaminated" fuel doesn't cause any problems simply because it's diluted by much larger quantities of straight fuel.

 

[beenthere]

Do you need to have a particular color container (transfer tank) to buy at the fueling station? Or not a problem?

Otherwise, as long as you keep the two straight, sounds fine to me.

 

[Duffster]

As everyone said, minimize the residual amount and dilute heavily when you change to the other fuel.

You might find it interesting to know that the people you buy fuel from use the same pipeline to transport both diesel and gasoline (and kerosene, jet fuel, etc.). Petroleum pipelines pump slugs of one fuel that fill a pipe for several miles and then batch another type of fuel right behind it in the same pipe with no separation. They route the fuel into separate tanks at the destination fuel depot but there is certainly mixing of the two fuels and dilution of both in the area where they make contact. This is how fuel is pumped across the country. At the end of the day, the small amount of "contaminated" fuel doesn't cause any problems simply because it's diluted by much larger quantities of straight fuel.

The pipeline operators know how much blends together and separates it out and sells it to a different market.

 

[77bronco]

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For small amounts of gasoline in diesel, there's a safety issue. Diesel fuel isn't combustible. You have to have a wick to light it off. Put gasoline in it, and you have a combustible vapor space.

Not to be picky, but by definition gasoline is flammable, diesel is combustible. Flammable liquids have a flash point below 100*F, and combustible liquids have a flash point of 100*F or higher. Per OHSA 1910.106

 

[Redgoatea]

Personally I'd do it but only after I had determined exactly how much cross contamination was going on in each fill up. Take the time to measure what's left over after you drain it once. What you think is a little may be more than you know. 7