How to prevent vapor lock...not...

SamJ

Over the weekend an employee put a truck-tank load of diesel into one of the gasoline storage tanks in the "Giant" oil yard outside Albuquerque. Nobody noticed, and they delivered the mix to about 35 gas stations in Albuquerque and Santa Fe, where it subsequently went into the tanks of a couple of hundred cars. For those who think its worth paying more for "brand name" gas, quite a few of the stations were Shell. Garages in the area are overflowing with cars that need to have their tanks drained, filters changed, lines blown out. Some high-end cars (a couple of Beemers, a Porsch or two) were trashed, so rumor has it. AAA was maxed rescuing people with stalled cars and trucks. Fun stuff, eh?

[Deleted User]

We have a gas storage tank on one of my trucks at work, a Dodge diesel, I sent a new employee to the station to put $100 worth of gas in the cartage tank. He put in diesel instead and proceeded to top off all my small engine equipment with the gas/diesel mix, a half hour before closing on a Friday before a busy weekend. We discovered what he did and spent quite a bit of time draining all the engines but we still had a lot of mix in the tank. A couple of my employees wanted the mix for their trucks as they saw it as free gas. Needless to say this was a poor decision on their parts as both vehicles left chugging and belching smoke. It took them both about a week to burn off that nasty mix and get enough good gas in their trucks to keep them running. I can't imagine what the Albuquerque people were dealing with but there could be quite a few burned up engines.



Harry