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Alienspecimen · Dec 29, 2005

Hi,
Forgive me for the dumb question, but can I just stick a hose and syphone out the fuel in my gas tank?
My Jeep has wrong fuel in the tank and the stealership told me that I will burn it in a couple of tankfulls, but it still stalls from time to time, now it is waiting at a parking lot for me. It seems that when it is cold, it runs better, so tonight I will go and try to get him home...
Can I harm the engine driving it like that? Sometimes it runs so rough...this is why I am considering taking as much fuel out as possible to speed things up...
Thanks
Boris

XJ Buzzard · Dec 29, 2005

Wrong fuel? Someone put diesel in it? What year?????

Some tanks you can get a small hose into the tank. I have one set up to siphon fuel out just in case a fuel pump goes bad on some of our rigs.

chris

Alienspecimen · Dec 30, 2005

It is a 99XJ. The receipt shows that I pumped unleaded fuel. I approached the gas station (CITGO in Fairfield, CT), but they won't admit, so I guess we are going to settle it differently...

I have airpump hoses for fish tanks and that's the plan for now...

prb24 · Dec 30, 2005

How can you be sure it's the fuel? Maybe another problem??

Alienspecimen · Dec 30, 2005

prb24 said:
How can you be sure it's the fuel? Maybe another problem??

This is the whole saga:
http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=72767

The stealership even gave me a sample with what's in the tank. They also told me that it would burn.

red91 · Dec 30, 2005

Alienspecimen said:
It is a 99XJ. The receipt shows that I pumped unleaded fuel. I approached the gas station (CITGO in Fairfield, CT), but they won't admit, so I guess we are going to settle it differently...
I have airpump hoses for fish tanks and that's the plan for now...

OK....did you get diesel ? OR unleaded ? ANy unleaded gas should be fine.

If you have diesel in there...it'll smoke pretty good...but yeah I'd get it out.

prb24 · Dec 30, 2005

Gotcha...wow, that sucks. Yeah, you could siphon it, or pull the tank. I would probably just keep topping it off (at a different gas station, of course :laugh3: ) to dillute it until it runs clean.

Alienspecimen · Dec 30, 2005

prb24 said:
Gotcha...wow, that sucks. Yeah, you could siphon it, or pull the tank. I would probably just keep topping it off (at a different gas station, of course :laugh3: ) to dillute it until it runs clean.

Problem is that I can't drive it more than five miles without stalling on the side of the road and then it takes a completely cold engine to run another five miles...

I still have a full gas tank.
Thanks for the help

Alienspecimen · Dec 30, 2005

red91inWA said:
OK....did you get diesel ? OR unleaded ?
It was half full when I filled up with the wrong stuff from the right pump:sunshine:
On this I drove it, until it was half full again and just refueled, it runs better, but still stalls, this is why I am considering the siphoning it out option now....

Alienspecimen · Dec 30, 2005

One last question:

What's the minimum lenght of hose that I have to use to drain it completely?
Thanks

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