ACCIDENTLY WATER FILLED INTO DIESEL TANK

[GRIT]

BeeDrill, that will work. Just keep going until the sight glass shows only diesel. Keep the fuel flowing, and keep draining.

No further filtration needed.

Cheers.
Paul.

[zeehag]

find some 55 gallon drums. you will want 1 more thanit takes to hold your fuel from tank.
find a pump and hoses
fill the barrels with the contents of the tank.
clean tank.
polish fuel using water separation filters. put newly cleaned and separated fuel into the spare barrel. once tank is cleaned and dry and perfect, begin filling with the cleaned and waterless fuel.
sorry there is no easy way to undo a major fail such as this.

[Training Wheels]

One more vote for just pumping the water out of the bottom of the tank and calling it good. A piece of tubing stuck down the fill tube or inspection port works well.

[akprb]

Crew did this on our ferry several times (bad placement of fills and inexperienced kids)

As said above, put down the checkbook, get out the hose and start pumping or draining till you hit fuel. Then watch your raycors for awhile ;-)

Keep it simple.

[boeing1]

how big is you tank, helped a couple of people get the water out using a 12v fuel pump, pumped in to 4 5gal. fuel cans. them refilled the tank, checked the recor filter every hour or two for signs of water.

[puffcard]

My dad did this in the Bahamas, years ago. It wasn't that bad, better than putting diesel in the water tank. Get some 1/4" copper tubing and straighten it out so it can get to the tank bottom. Use a hand pump and suck the water out. Add additives that dry fuel and an extra shot Biobor Jr, you'll be fine.

[Rudderless]

He's got 4 tanks, 1500L total.

[puffcard]

This is a funny story. Friend was going to Fla towing a boat, stopped in Ga and told them to fill the boat up. He comes out and the attendant says that's $25 when gas was a 25 cents. He said that's funny how did you get a 100 gallons in a 20 gallon tank. The attendant had put the gas into a rod holder.

[thebootlegger]

This happened to us...we were relieved it was water into fuel and not the other way around....it took us a while but we used a clear pickup tube and our shop vac, we then dumped the water fuel mix into a plastic tank and took it to the oil and fuel reclamation /recycling station in the commercial docks. Long job, but it worked. Good luck.

[Midnight Son]

Just looked on the Fram web site. Doesn't look like OP has any sight glasses on the fuel filters. Not good for seeing how far the water has gone through the system.

[SailsTeam]

Originally Posted by Guy

That was how you got fuel from all the old WW II closed military base underground fuel tanks. You pump in a bunch of water and pump off the fuel.

This is also how you get oil out of areas where it has been pumped to depletion. They inject sea water at high pressure into the wells. Water and diesel are easy to separate you might need to be high and dry first then just drain it into a bucket. The water is at the bottom.

[fstarocka]

couple or bottles of sailor jerry shd do the trick.. lemon optional


water will settle down in about 30 seconds. as mentions get a hose in the bottom and pump it out till u see diesel. Id try drain the lot, attach a pump to fuel pickup -