I put 60 litres of petrol into my RR TDV8 Vogue, which was virtually out of diesel at the time. The vehicle has never had the engine turned over since then so all the petrol is contained in the fuel tank. It is at Land Rover dealer and they are telling me because it is a vougue model it will take 6 hours of labour and requires the tank taking out. Is there not a simple drain valve they can access?
bwarb
New Member
Absolutely right, syphon it out (or pump it out) yourself, and so long as there's not more than a gallon or so left you'll be fine, brim it with diesel and drive it away.
A 10% petrol mix shouldn't cause serious problems, used to do it all the time in the old days to avoid the diesel waxing up in cold weather.
ratty
I'm not special I'm limited edition
Your vehicle has saddle bag tanks. This means that the fuel tank drops on each side of the rear prop or exhaust. Normally a vacuum can be placed down the filler neck to evacuate the fuel. It will not work with saddle bag tanks. The passenger side of the tank has a fuel pump that transfers the fuel to the drivers side of the tank. The only other way of draining it without dropping the tank out is to run that fuel pump. Petrol being a thinner will strip the diesel, which is as you know a lubricant, out and this will cause premature pump failure.
ratty
I'm not special I'm limited edition
I'm afraid so.
If it were virtually any other landy they have drain bungs in the bottom of the tanks or at the least are standard one piece tanks. It is only the fact that it's a saddle bag and it aint got a drain plug that makes it such a laborious job.
Dint know that, he was LZ yoda
ratty
I'm not special I'm limited edition
Tis only cos I had to drain one of the feckers out a few months back.
You can ave the CharlesY slot if ya like? I rekon you have a better all round landy knowledge than me. I just have to know common faults with ALL cars.
Tis only cos I had to drain one of the feckers out a few months back.
You can ave the CharlesY slot if ya like? I rekon you have a better all round landy knowledge than me. I just have to know common faults with ALL cars.
my knowledge/interest of all things LR ends at about 1992, anything past that is only what i know cos i've been forced to learn it when someone gives me money to sort something - anyways i'd fall asleep typing the length of replies that the pink landy man used to type
i appear to have missed some going ons while i was away - whats that other web site all about and why did that tweets bloke get banned (in less than 10 words please)
