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Engine 'blown' is rather vague....blown infers once rotating parts have been ejected from the crankcase.

Did you fill it with diesel in error?.......should be impossible since a diesel nozzle won't fit in a gasoline filler neck.
If it was diesel, and a fuel station had a underground tank for gasoline filled with diesel in error, the expense to repair falls on them....hopefully you charged the fuel and can get the receipt.

I have had several gasoline engines misfilled with diesel in the past, brought in for repair......once the fuel was exchanged I never had any problems getting the vehicles to recover......they did smoke a bit till the second tankful but otherwise, no problems.

In general, diesel fuel in a gas engine, if it starts, just takes the power away and smokes like mad........I'm thinking this shopmay be jumping to conclusions.

Keep us informed,

Rob

Yeah, before they started fooling around with gas filler tubes, this was a common occurrence, But with limited emission controls, all cast iron, a flush or even thinning it out was all they war needed. Ha, still ran, but left a trail of smoke.

With fuel evaporative emission requirements, fuel injectors, a far more major job, but so is AC work when they dumped R-12 in favor of R-134a. Damage to the O2 sensors can result and definitely the catalytic converter.

But having problems with engine damage, much can be cleaned up with Seafoam, not really not much different than having fouled spark plugs, the engine just quits running. Diesel should not hurt the fuel pump, ethanol does a lot more damage than this.

Really can't help you unless I look at the engine. But is one hail of a big mess to clean up. Problems around here is not diesel but water in the gas.