I accidently poured 5.1 Gallon of diesel into my S2000. Now the car won't even start. What do i do?

 

Ouch. I hope your engine is not dead

 

Dont know if you are handy enough with the skills but you're gonna have to get the fuel system flushed. Get it towed to a shop.

You can try to siphon all the gas from the tank using a hose but if you tried to start it already that might mean gas already ran through the fuel line into the injectors. You would need a professional.

 

Well that's no good..

 

i've read about how people have done this before and the shops were able to flush it out.

The only costly thing that comes up is if your injectors could've been damaged.

 

The good news is that you haven't destroyed the engine. The bad news is that this is going to take some work, and good mechanical skills to correct. First you need to get the gas tank completely empty of the diesal. This means pumping it out, then rinsing it with more gas to dilute the remaining diesal. Once this is done, I'd try to pull the gas supply line at the fuel injection rail, turn your car on (don't try to start) and use the fuel pumpt to purge your supply line from the tank. Then, I'd pull the supply lines to the injectors (at the injectors), one at a time, and pump again until the gas is clear at each injector..

Once all this was done, I'd try to start the engine. Hopefully the small amount of diesal in the injectors would get cleaned out quickly enough that the engine will start. I'm sure it'll run rough, but it should clean itself out. If not, you'll need to change the plugs.

The "theme" in doing this work is to start at the tank and work forward. That way, you don't recontaminate your system..

 

You accidently "POURED" diesel fuel into your car? Meaning you didn't "PUMP" it in???

Diesel nozzles are bigger so that you can't pump it into the tank.. unless you literally "poured" into your tank..

 

Actually thats not true... not all diesel nozzles are larger than gasoline nozzles. Not necessarily an easy mistake i might add. Good luck bro.

 

Well I was in a bad mood. I noticed the nozzle was bigger but i pumped it anyway (thinking it was because the size of my car), i know i know......anyhow, thanks all for giving me advice, it's going to the shop tomorow, and after that, i'll trade it in for a G35 Coupe

 

Would that be the diesal G35 coupe?