alastairq
Western Thunderer
The only genuine multi-fuel vehicle I have ever owned , which would, literally, run on anything......was my old Daihatsu Fourtrak.
Proper 'old school' diesel with none of this fancy eeel lek-tronic stuff. A rev counter that red lined around 4000 rpm, said it all....
Whilst on a yolliday down Dorset way, when filling up, I got distracted by an 'entitled' individual at the next pumps.
To the extent I put 25 litres of petrol in the tank...before I realised.
Visions of dread appeared in the back of my brain....but it started up, and I parked round the back, out of the way.
More visions of wasting 200 quids for a drain & purge of the fuel system [ Back then , the current average charged by so called 'rescue' services..]
A quick call to a chum, who was an ex doyzel fitter for a local bus company, put my mind at rest.
The old thing started up right enough, and I called by a Halfords for a small bottle of lawn mower oil, and added that to the fuel tank....[rocked the old girl side to side a bit, to mix it up].
That vehicle never ever missed a beat....regardless of whether I put diesel, petrol, domestic heating oil, paint thinners, gin, paraffin, kero, veggy oil, you name it..if it smelt, and possibly might go bang, the Daihatsu ran on it.
Also discovered, folk refused to tailgate it.....
Proper 'old school' diesel with none of this fancy eeel lek-tronic stuff. A rev counter that red lined around 4000 rpm, said it all....
Whilst on a yolliday down Dorset way, when filling up, I got distracted by an 'entitled' individual at the next pumps.
To the extent I put 25 litres of petrol in the tank...before I realised.
Visions of dread appeared in the back of my brain....but it started up, and I parked round the back, out of the way.
More visions of wasting 200 quids for a drain & purge of the fuel system [ Back then , the current average charged by so called 'rescue' services..]
A quick call to a chum, who was an ex doyzel fitter for a local bus company, put my mind at rest.
The old thing started up right enough, and I called by a Halfords for a small bottle of lawn mower oil, and added that to the fuel tank....[rocked the old girl side to side a bit, to mix it up].
That vehicle never ever missed a beat....regardless of whether I put diesel, petrol, domestic heating oil, paint thinners, gin, paraffin, kero, veggy oil, you name it..if it smelt, and possibly might go bang, the Daihatsu ran on it.
Also discovered, folk refused to tailgate it.....