Hi,

A female friend who owns a Harley ran out of gas, and she walked to a nearby
friend's house to bum some gasoline. He referred her to his garage.
Through a communication mixup, she ended up putting about a gallon of
kerosene in the Harley.

According to her, after purging the kerosene and replacing it with gasoline
as best she could, it runs rough and belches white smoke when shutting it
off. But she did run it for a while on kerosene.

Can anyone characterize the likely damage and the best course of action from
here?

Thanks, Datesfat

On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:40:16 -0400, "Datesfat Chicks"
<datesfat.chicks@gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>A female friend who owns a Harley ran out of gas, and she walked to a nearby
>friend's house to bum some gasoline. He referred her to his garage.
>Through a communication mixup, she ended up putting about a gallon of
>kerosene in the Harley.
>
>According to her, after purging the kerosene and replacing it with gasoline
>as best she could, it runs rough and belches white smoke when shutting it
>off. But she did run it for a while on kerosene.
>
>Can anyone characterize the likely damage and the best course of action from
>here?
>
>Thanks, Datesfat

A ) Best characterized as 'shit happens'

B ) Ride the bitch.

And I shall leave it up to you as to whether that refers to
a ) Her and her motorcycle, or
b ) You and her



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On Jun 29, 11:40*am, "Datesfat Chicks" <datesfat.chi...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A female friend who owns a Harley ran out of gas, and she walked to a nearby
> friend's house to bum some gasoline. *He referred her to his garage.
> Through a communication mixup, she ended up putting about a gallon of
> kerosene in the Harley.
>
> According to her, after purging the kerosene and replacing it with gasoline
> as best she could, it runs rough and belches white smoke when shutting it
> off. *But she did run it for a while on kerosene.
>
> Can anyone characterize the likely damage and the best course of action from
> here?

None, do an itallian tune up and quit worrying. I've run everclear
througha ICE motor without damage, dieselt mixed with gas, 50/50
kerosene all with no damage. Might run hotter but that's about it.

"Datesfat Chicks" <datesfat.chicks@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:2vudnVh2bN8vYdXXnZ2dnUVZ_uydnZ2d@giganews.com ...
> Hi,
>
> A female friend who owns a Harley ran out of gas, and she walked to a
> nearby friend's house to bum some gasoline. He referred her to his
> garage. Through a communication mixup, she ended up putting about a gallon
> of kerosene in the Harley.
>
> According to her, after purging the kerosene and replacing it with
> gasoline as best she could, it runs rough and belches white smoke when
> shutting it off. But she did run it for a while on kerosene.
>
> Can anyone characterize the likely damage and the best course of action
> from here?

It won't have damaged anything.

The plugs may be a little oily for a day or two, so cleaning them wouldn't
hurt, but I wouldn't bother if it's a ball-ache to do (it's a woman's bike,
it will be). Tell her to get the thing ridden. Hard.



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Datesfat Chicks wrote:

> and the best course of action from here?

Trade it in for a Victory, surely?

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Datesfat Chicks <datesfat.chicks@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> A female friend who owns a Harley ran out of gas, and she walked to a nearby
> friend's house to bum some gasoline. He referred her to his garage.
> Through a communication mixup, she ended up putting about a gallon of
> kerosene in the Harley.
>
> According to her, after purging the kerosene and replacing it with gasoline
> as best she could, it runs rough and belches white smoke when shutting it
> off. But she did run it for a while on kerosene.
>
> Can anyone characterize the likely damage and the best course of action from
> here?
>
For a short while, little or no damage.

For a longer while, especially if used hard, the risk is of damaging the
valves/seats, with serious loss of compression.



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On Jun 29, 10:40 am, "Datesfat Chicks" <datesfat.chi...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A female friend who owns a Harley ran out of gas, and she walked to a nearby
> friend's house to bum some gasoline. He referred her to his garage.
> Through a communication mixup, she ended up putting about a gallon of
> kerosene in the Harley.
>
> According to her, after purging the kerosene and replacing it with gasoline
> as best she could, it runs rough and belches white smoke when shutting it
> off. But she did run it for a while on kerosene.
>
> Can anyone characterize the likely damage and the best course of action from
> here?

She might consider emptying the tank again
as well as the float bowls if it's carbureted.

When I've got iffy gas, I'll usually transfer
it from the bike to the car and then top off
the car tank with good gas.

On Jun 29, 10:40*am, "Datesfat Chicks" <datesfat.chi...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Can anyone characterize the likely damage and the best course of action from
> here?

Reminds me of the "Then Came Bronson" episode when Jim Bronson got
some diesel fuel in his Sportster's tank.

Or was that Neil Peart who stopped at a station on the Trans-Canada
highway and had some kid fill his BMW up with diesel?

No matter...

Since kerosene is a lot less volatile than gasoline, some of the
kerosene has settled out in the intake tract and in the exhaust
system, coating all the internal surfaces.

The engine might have spat some of the kerosene back into the air
filter too.

There is probably some kerosene still contaminating the fresh gas in
the tank, too.

Kerosene will cause the engine to ping and even detonate, so she
shouldn't run the engine under heavy load while she burns out the
kerosene by riding the motorcycle.

I've heard that's what motorcycles are *for*, yannow, riding, like ya
go out and chase the horizon until the sun sets.

But the high temperature is supposed to be around 105 degrees here for
the next week.

On Jun 29, 1:47*pm, "Beauregard T. Shagnasty"
<a.nony.m...@example.invalid> wrote:
> Datesfat Chicks wrote:
> > *and the best course of action from here?
>
> Trade it in for a Victory, surely?

Why go uglier? Sheesh, even a Pacer looks nicer than any victory
motorcycle.