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What happens if a vehicle that runs on diesel fuel is filled with unleaded gasoline?
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The engine will be severely damaged, as the Gasoline will burn at least ten times hotter than the diesel, due to the fact diesel engines have an extremely high compression rate. In some cases I have seen, the engine explodes because [older] diesels cannot compensate for the sharp increase in RPM's because the injection pump cannot retard fuel timing enough.
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It won't run. It might cause damaged it you try to run it.
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