24-04-14, 09:50 PM
True, petrol engine will run with a bit of diesel. A few years ago when coming back from the UK having bought a Fazer 400 for my eldest son, we were diverted off the M4 around Bristol, we stopped at a small petrol station and filled the newly bought Fazer 400 and a 04 model CBR 600 from the same petrol pump. By the time we got to junction 23A there was some amount of smoke from both bikes, we stopped at Junction 23A and discovered we had diesel contamination, it had to be contamination as both bike were close to reserve when we had stopped in the Bristol and we filled from the same petrol pump. Since we had no idea how to find the station we filled at, we siphoned about half of the tanks into cans we bought in J23A filling station and filled both tanks with fresh petrol.
Trusty Fazer 400 was bit slow starting, but there was no way we could start the CBR. We put the CBR on a recovery truck to Pembroke, pushed on to the ferry and had it collected in Rosslare by a friend in his van. The Fazer 400 ran with out issue home to Cork.
We had to drain the everything out of the CBR and fit new plugs before we could get it to fire again. :rolleyes
Trusty Fazer 400 was bit slow starting, but there was no way we could start the CBR. We put the CBR on a recovery truck to Pembroke, pushed on to the ferry and had it collected in Rosslare by a friend in his van. The Fazer 400 ran with out issue home to Cork.
We had to drain the everything out of the CBR and fit new plugs before we could get it to fire again. :rolleyes