The engine may suffer serious damage. Of course, it all depends on how much diesel remained in the tank before adding gasoline and how new the engine is. In 2007 or newer clean diesel engines, amy amount of gasoline will do damage to the sensitive emissions control components and system. In older engines with much less sophisticated and touchy emission systems, a lightly diluted (say 90% diesel & 10% gasoline) mix would probably pass through with little or no detriment. It may simply cause reduced engine power, perhaps a bit more noise, and possibly a warning from the emission sensors that detect something other than pure diesel exhaust. It is a high concentration of gasoline that spells real trouble. Burning straight gasoline or a highly diluted gas/diesel mix will almost certainly result in catastrophic damage to the engine. Diesels can burn a lot of things but gasoline is not one of them.
Either it will not run at all, or run very poorly. Either is likely to do severe damage to the engine.
No. A petrol or gasoline engine will not run on diesel fuel.
NO! It will not run on diesel.
NO! It will not run on diesel.
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A gasoline engine will not run on diesel and a diesel engine will be destroyed if you run it on gasoline. Click the link.
If you put petrol in a diesel engine by mistake, the tank must be fully drained before driving as they are incompatible. If this is not done, the vehicle will not run and permanent damage can occur.
That is impossible. You cannot convert a diesel to run on petrol or vice versa.
Diesel run in any petrol engine will do damage if you can keep the engine running for a long period of time. A petrol engine will not start and run on diesel fuel alone Posted by Danny from Bee Mech Mobile Mechanics
Not if you want it to run.
the engine will not run because of three reasons. 1. Diesel uses more compression than the petrol engine does 2. the diesel engines fuel to air mixture is 1:1 and petrol isn't 3. diesel engines use straight compression or glow plugs instead of spark plugs
Yes, petrol will work in a diesel engine but will run rough for a short time before the engine needs extensive and expensive repairs.