Red is gas, Yellow is Diesel!

[LouNY]

I wouldn't say modern pollution control does,
but modern common rail fuel injection does to me.
I have cut my fuel with gas in an emergency in the winter,
on the older mechanical injection systems, it's not a practice I would recommend.
It's definitely an accept the possible failures on yourself if you try it.
That said when my daughter put diesel in her Cherokee and then added a bit more gas I ended up with almost 20 gallons of fuel
of unkown composition, 5 gallons with a few bottles of old two stroke oil I had laying around went into my 275 gallon winter fuel tank and the rest went into my homes 1000 gallon fuel oil tank after I filtered a couple of gallons of old motor oil and added to the mix.
Tractors still run good and oil boiler still works good.

That said I wouldn't go anywheres near a new common rail system with contaminated fuel.
My pickup does get additives in the winter and occasionally in the summer.

 

[Trillium Farm]

I used my 6 liter oil evacuation bottle and sucked the oil tank dry (evacuated about 8 1/2 gallons total).

I trust that was a typo and you meant the fuel tank :laughing:

 

[Oldoak]

I trust that was a typo and you meant the fuel tank :laughing:

That's for sure! If not, poor tradosaurus has some real problems.

 

[tradosaurus]

I trust that was a typo and you meant the fuel tank :laughing:

I did mean fuel tank. I guess as I was typing I was still waking up. :laughing:

 

[PILOON]

Since yellow poly tanks are somewhat rare around here what I did is made some 3 inch disks from some yellow plastic sheeting I had and simply attach the 3" rings to the red tanks that contain fuel. The disks are also lettered 'FUEL'

 

[Industrial Toys]

I wish they would make a portable yellow boat style poly tank with an additional return line quick connect.

 

[riptides]

All my cans are red.

 

[snymat68]

A couple years ago I needed a couple 5gal gas cans for my generator at the last minute right before a snow storm (bad preparation on my part). Of course everyone was sold out of gas cans, but the local mom and pop hardware had a couple 5gal yellow diesel cans, so I grabbed them and filled them with gas on the way home. At the time I didn't have anything that ran diesel, so I didn't have to worry about what type of fuel it was, but to avoid confusion I spray painted the cans red anyway. I still have them, and they still seal and hold gas. But I recently bought proper replacements because the seals in the "stupid eco nozzles" of the diesel cans apparently weren't designed to be exposed to gasoline and they swelled up and deteriorated, leaving me to pour the gas directly from the mouth of the can. Not an easy task with a full can.

Moral of the story for those using diesel cans for gasoline, not all seals are created equal.

 

[zoltanthegypsy]

2nd hand story: A fishing buddy grew up on the waterfront near here. During one of the periods of long power outages his mom wanted to stockpile a few extra gallons of gas. Used the boat's 6-gallon portables THAT USUALLY HELD PREMIX. Sure as bread falls butter-side down, one of the boys decided to take the boat out for a ski. Seized the engine. *sigh*

Z.

 

[LD48750]

I'm too cheap to go out & buy yellow diesel containers, so I just use the blue cans I already had.

They work just as good & the tractor or the torpedo heater don't seem to care.