Posted by Goose on May 28, 2009 at 20:25:41 from (67.63.68.13):
I was sitting in my office at work this afternoon enjoying myself no end when my wife called.
We have a less than a year old Poulan 24hp garden tractor with a 54" deck. She said she went to mow the lawn and it went a little ways, threw out a big cloud of smoke and stopped. I told her there wasn't anything I could do from 25 miles away and I'd deal with it when I got home.
when I got home, she said all she did was check the oil, put gas in it from the blue jug by the shop, and went to mow. "Uh, Honey, that blue jug has diesel fuel in it".
Anyway, I took a siphon pump, siphoned the tank, and bled all the gas lines that I could access. Then filled it with gasoline, took the air filter off, and dribbled a bit of gasoline into the carburetor. Pulled the choke, hit the starter, and it ran for a few seconds doing a pretty good job of fogging the bugs. Did that several times till it would run on its own. After a few minutes, the smoke cleared up and apparently no harm done.
Now, I have about 5 gallons of diesel that is maybe 20% to 30% gasoline. I'm assuming if I add it a couple of gallons at a time to my D19 with maybe ten gallons more of diesel I can keep it from going to waste.
Then my wife owned up to it that she had put diesel in the 20hp also, but it wouldn't start because it sounded like something's wrong with the starter. Siphoned the tank on it, filled it with gasoline, and found out the starter indeed wouldn't work. Pulled the starter and found the drive had busted. Anyway, the 20hp never ran with the diesel in it, so it should fire right up when I get the starter fixed. Maybe smoke a bit.
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