Diesel Fuel Additive

[drover]

No way you can fill them with Hi Flow at full noise has to be with just a slight pull of the trigger ............ I think Lo is about 40lt/min and Hi 80lt/min or more, even some trucks you can have dramas filling if not direct to tank as the air cannot escape quick enough... diesel always suds up, the Premium fuel just has an additive to stop it foaming along with other additives ....
Way back all the nozzles were the same size for diesel, super and standard then as more self serves came into being, the number of stupid people around started to show, hence things had to change to stop stupid people killing their engines and now with so many various brews of fuel, its all colour coded and they still use the wrong stuff ...

Oh and the kerp or 2 stroke bowser had a skinny nozzle so you could stick it in a can.... BP Zoom bowser you could select the blend of 2 stroke required...

[Jeeper6]

Lol...note they now have a lock system on many diesel bowsers so the clowns have to actually push a locking clip to release the nozzle to remove it in attempts to save them from themselves!

I guess back in the day when the "Fuel Outlets" were in fact "Service Stations" and had driveway service it wasn't ever a problem as compared to now where there is NO driveway service...just some person sitting inside a glass box turning bowsers on and off...

I suppose soon even the abbreviation "Servo" will disappear from the vocabulary...

[drover]

For a long time I even look to make sure the hose Im grabbing is actually from the diesel pump and no smart arse has swapped them around as not all nozzles are the same colour greatest fear is to fill with wrong juice.....

[OLMATE]

Originally Posted by drover

For a long time I even look to make sure the hose Im grabbing is actually from the diesel pump and no smart arse has swapped them around as not all nozzles are the same colour greatest fear is to fill with wrong juice.....

You beat me too it, as Diesel now is part of the regular bowser set up, not over on its own, I always make sure it's actually from the diesel pump, call me paranoid but it only takes one dumb arse to start doing the shit (give it time) and once you pump in say;80 litres of petrol then the hours of fun begins and I cant see the servo let you dump over 90lt of fuel down the drain, let alone trying to work out getting the bloody thing out of Park without starting it so you can push it from the bowser to a safe place to actually work on it

[drover]

Originally Posted by OLMATE

and I cant see the servo let you dump over 90lt of fuel down the drain, let alone trying to work out getting the bloody thing out of Park without starting it so you can push it from the bowser to a safe place to actually work on it

When a mate rang me from a servo about 30 k from home I threw my jerry can collection in back of ute along with some hose, thankfully my jerry can collection was about a dozen cans, he had pushed his DMax into the car park, we syphoned out as much as we could, he had only chucked about 30lts in, then pushed it back to a bowser and filled up and he went for a big drive filling up when it got to 3/4 tank, in these things we would have to pull the wire so we could push it out of the way I think..... a bluddy drain plug in tank would be handy for many reasons.