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I thought a little diesel wouldn't hurt a gas car. When my step dad got his Peugeot 505 (gas) he accidentally put diesel in it (his previous car was an 80-something Volkswagen Quantum/Passat Diesel) We just pumped most of it out and put gas in, no problem. That car also has a low compression engine, so I don't know if that is a factor.
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If the amount of gas mixed into the diesel isn't that much, it doesn't do much damage usually. Draining the fuel tank is usually all it takes. The only time I've dealt with this was with a BRAND spanking new 2018 Sprinter van. Hadn't even got its first oil change, and the guy driving it filled the tank to the brim with E85. It did still run, but wouldn't take any throttle. I believe the computer knew something was wrong and refused to do anything but idle. I also think it was fortunate that it was E85 instead of gas, as ethanol doesn't like to detonate nearly as much as gas does. |
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A little diesel in the gas isn't much different from an engine with worn rings that let a little oil into the combustion chamber.... except once all the diesel is out of the gas the engine goes back to normal which don't happen with bad rings...
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These were all RWD cars, the FWD cars kept a stick well into the 90's and some later. PS: if you have a Grenada ESS (or not) with the 302/SROD - call me
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I know. There's nothing wrong with wanting a simpler vehicle. Depending on the year used escalades aren't much more complicated than a Yukon Denali. Given even my simple suburban has needed it's fair share of of maintenance on all fronts stuff will need to be fixed no matter what you drive. The nice thing is the common parts on the drivetrain and chassis of all vheicles in that family are pretty good solid designs...the luxury features I don't regularly use or need to use can sit broken till/if they ever become important enough to bother...my suburban came to me with an AC leak that would bleed it out in a week or two. Being used to Florida summers but living in Wisconsin now I only would charge the AC for long hour+ drives or on the worst day(s) of summer (windows down is usually all I need to feel fine) and 3 years of using 134 with stop leak has gotten it to the point it will now hold charge for months. I honestly don't know if the rear headphones based radio even works since I never had a desire to use it.
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Getting almost) back to the subject of this thread, I'm surprised that I haven't seen much mentioned in the way of pushbutton controls for the early automatic transmissions. Here's the unwieldy-looking button panel for the mid '50s Packard Touchbutton Ultramatic:
First Row: Neutral, Low, High Second Row: Park, Reverse, Drive Probably the most famous was Chrysler's pushbutton-controlled PowerFlite and TorqueFlite transmissions, offered between 1956 and 1964. Here's the button panel from a PowerFlite-equipped car: (the parking brake was engaged using a separate lever) Less well-known was the Teletouch system used in the ill-fated Edsel line. Inexplicably, they chose to place the pushbutton controls smack dab in the center of the steering wheel, which probably caused some interesting transmission acrobatics when someone not well-acquainted with the system tried to honk the horn as you would on most other cars. Here's a photo: Closer view:
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The Edsel used an electronic pushbutton system and supposedly some cars developed steering dependent shorts in the shift wiring causing the transmission to freakout on turns...That had to be fun. IIRC horn rings not on the hub of the steering wheel we're more common up to the time of the Edsel so there probably we're more accidental honk shifts when the got to be a few years old than when new. Chrysler used a standard shift cable with the push buttons pulling the mechanical shift cable to the same points a shift lever would. It was a very reliable system from what I understand. Mopar had atleast one other bezel and button mech during their pushbutton automatic days.... one of my favorite big fin cars is the 60 Plymouth Furry and they have the that other style. Coldwarmotors on YouTube rebuilt the pushbutton mech on the 60 furry he is splicing together.
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