Diesel accident. (Solved)

I filled my gen 3 Prius with diesel and drove 1 kilometer before realising what I'd done. It started missing. I pumped out all the diesel and replaced it with hi octane petrol. Now when I try to start it I get a square sign in the display I cant read and wont go into drive or reverse. I think there is power in both batteries. Im sure the engine is undamaged as it only mised a few times before I discovered the problem. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

 

This is easy to do especially if you own two other vehicles with diesel engines. Anyway, I will tell you what I did and hopefully save you a lot of money if you follow these steps carefully.

Get some large containers to pump the diesel into. Then pull the back seat out and remove the metal plate above the fuel tank. You will see it has pipes and wires going through it. Its held there with black sticky gunk. Remove the fuel line and extend it with some clear15mm neopreme tube feeding it into a good sized container. Next get a 12 volt battery with small alligator clips attached thereon. Unplug the plastic multi pin connector on the petrol tank to expose the connection pins and place the alligator clips on the pins that align with the red and black wires on the connector. The pump will then start to spin but is very quiet and hard to hear but the fuel should begin flowing into the container. Empty the tank untill you see bubles inside the hose but continue for several more minutes. Reconnect the fuel line to the pump and plug back in the connecto, before replacing the lid with the sticky black gung around the edge.

Next pour high octane petrol into the tank. I used 40 litres of 98 octane. You want good dilution. Next, make sure you have at least 12 volts on the small battery. If not use jumper leads to another battery. Next, making sure the ignition is off, plug an OB11 scanner into the relevant plug under the dash board and turn the ingition on. I got a 1309 code. Next, use the correct scanner setting to erase the code. Next, place your foot on the brake as you normally would to start your Prius and you should hear it spin up. If it doesn't, then you probably have less than 12 volts on the secondary battery which is what happened to me. I jumpered in a second 12volt battery and she spun up immediatly when I tried to start it. The engine wound over for about 10 seconds and stopped. I just erased the code again and tried to restart. I went through two 12 volt batteries doing this and about 20 attempts before the car shook violently and began firing for a few seconds and stalled again. What I was doing was blowing all of the diesel out of the fuel pipe, the filter, the injector pump and the fuel rail. I did this about five more times with lots of shaking, knocking and grey smoke before it would run continuosly. I then disconnected the battery and left if it idling for several more minutes. Next I drove around the car park about 200 meters each circuit about 5 times but she was still running rough at low revs. Then I drove out onto the road and within a couple of kilometers everything smoothed out and she ran perfectly smoothly with no smoke or miss firing from then on. The entire experience cost me only $22 for the scanner and $12 for the neopreme tube. I used the diesel in my Nissan van. I had previuosly read where people had spent up to $1000 on a mechanic to clean the fuel system out.