On 5/18/2011 3:58 PM, Bryan wrote:
> On May 18, 8:41 pm, > wrote:
>> On 5/18/2011 3:27 PM, John Kuthe wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Not here in STL!! We regularly have pumps which have 3 grades of
>>> gasoline and diesel all on the same pump!
>>
>>> John Kuthe...
>>
>> On this rock, it's the same way. There's little chance of filing a car
>> with diesel though - the nozzle won't fit. I guess you could fill a
>> diesel with gas - that would suck too.
>
> It would destroy your diesel engine. Putting diesel into a gas engine
> just means draining and cleaning.
>
> --Bryan

I have heard that gas in a diesel will do this but I suspect that it's
one of those things that everybody knows but nobody's really tried to
test out.

As far as the nozzle for diesel fitting into the filler for gasoline, my
guess is that the federal nozzle compliance squad didn't get to your
neck of the woods or the owners of the station just replaced the nozzle
with a standard one instead of waiting a couple of weeks to have a new
oversized diesel nozzle shipped in. This probably happens quite
frequently. Check to see if there's a federal requirement for this and
if there is, try to extort money from the owners. Good luck! :-)