Oil & Fuel Gas in my Diesel Engine!!

[Junkman]

Interesting device that you have designed. Have you considered making it with a lockable cap to prevent malicious damage by others? Do you make a model for Kubota BX tractors? Have you considered advertising on the TBN site and offering a discount for TBN Members as some of the other advertises do?

My own horror story is when I had my car fueled in NJ where there is no self service allowed by law. The attendant couldn't read English and filled my tank with gasoline instead of diesel as was marked on the filler door. The car ran for a while, but died a violent death. Six thousand dollars later I had a new engine and my insurance company paid for the replacement. I never found out if they were able to collect from the service station that made the mistake, but after that I always got out of the car and verified that it was being fueled with the proper fuel. Whenever possible, I rather fuel my own vehicles.

If you have a two cycle engine such as a weed wacker or chain saw, and put straight gasoline into them without the proper amount of 2 cycle oil, you will ruin the cylinder and many times the cost of repair is more than the value of the item. One more reason that I don't loan out my gasoline powered tools....

 

[5030]

Junkman:

Can you find any of your gasoline powered tools?? Can you find the gasoline can??? heheheheh. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Egon]

Henro:

In town I'm using a 25 year old lawn mower and always put the 40:1chain saw mix into the tank. It hasn't created any problems. I do this as the 3.5 HP Briggs & Stratton preceded the the new gasoline formulations.

Egon

 

[art]

I surely would not recommend putting two cycle mix in a four stroke engine unless I was using it to rid the neighborhood. That 's of anybody including animals. I have done the ugly mix deal myself before and definitly been involved in many clean-up cases. I have never had to redo an engine or anything else more serious from it but to drain and change the filters.

 

[Egon]

Art:

This is an old engine and with the 40:1 mix it doesn't smoke and it doesn't use any crankcase oil. Runs well and doesn't foul the plug.

I would not put the mix in a new engine.

Egon

 

[art]

I've never seen that being done! Or at least without fouling the plug. Which you luck with it if it is working for you! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

 

[fishman]

dieselshield, that's a neat concept, but I don't really understand how it works, even after reading your website.
As the owner of two Kubotas, one diesel and one a gas lawn tractor, I would consider this product. Could you enlighten me a little bit?

 

[dieselshield]

I have been asked how the device works.

It is activated by the size of the nozzles. A gas nozzle is 3/4" and a diesel nozzle usually is 1" in diameter.

There are 2 cams inside the core of the body that press out the locking arms which hold the spring loaded cover close. These cams are only activated bythe 1" diesel nozzle and not the 3/4" gas nozzle. If you put the gas nozzle in the body of the device you will hit the locked cap on the end and it will not let the gas nozzle completely in the device. Only the diesel nozzle will unlock the cap and the cap swings out of the way to allow the entire diesel nozzle to be inserted in the body of the device.

So of the photos on the site show the cap and the locking arms

www.dieselshield.com

 

[fishman]

O.K. that makes sense. If I had a diesel pickup I would definitely consider one of those. Particularly if my wife drove it and I know she would want to. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

Looks like I'm going to have to stick with my yellow and red cans for my tractors.

 

[5030]

The KEY WORD is usually.

The fill nozzle on my bulk tank (diesel) is 3/4"

The fill nozzle at the Pacific Pride where I fill my Western Star is also 3/4"

I see 3/4" and 1" nozzles at truck stops all the time. Usually the high volume pumps are 1", but not all the time.

There seems to be no standardization of nozzle diameter, so that negates the use of your filler neck.

Could you imagine if some ones wife stopped at a service station that used only 3/4" nozzles and needed diesel. I wouldn't want her to call me!!!