At 10:25 PM 6/30/96 -0500, Jim Arnott wrote: > > Owning a service station in Oregon, I am afraid that gas in diesel >is a fact of life. We all make mistakes. The proceduure followed in your In truth, I understand thet these things happen, the station handeled it pretty well. Like the service truck mechanic said, it's not the first time. This is the reason that I didn't name the station, I didn't want to speak poorly of them for a accident that was corrected. For the record this did NOT happen to me at Arnott's Texaco. For that mater I don't even know where Union OR is. As a statement of confidence that they can now identify my van as a diesel at this particular station, I will continue to purchase fuel at this station. (the're getting my money, what else do they want? a smile?) >If the error is discovered prior to the vehicle being started, there is no >need to change filters or bleed the fuel lines. If the vehicle has been >run with gas in it, then the procedure becomes a little more complex. > It was discovered prior to starting, I had walked over to record the fuel consumption. It still took a couple of hours to take care of. Oh well, this is the slow time of year for me. I had a stack of recent Tech-pubs that I haden't read yet and my laptop, I was able to sit and not lose any time at all.
Robert Crawford
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