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1. Sugar in the gas tank. (score: 1): Author: gbaker@customcpu.com (Baker, G.); Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 15:58:38 -0800; All Motorheads, Have any of you ever tore down an engine that had sugar or some other bad substance put in the gas tank? What was the effect of the sugar and what did the interior of the engine look; /html/mgs/2000-10/msg00624.html (7,325 bytes)
2. Re: Sugar in the gas tank. (score: 1): Author: fogbro1 <fogbro1@bellatlantic.net>; Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 20:22:33 -0400; Last I heard sugar does not dissolve in gasoline. Therefore any that gets into the fuel lines should be filtered by the fuel filter. None should reach the engine. Ed Woods; /html/mgs/2000-10/msg00625.html (7,269 bytes)
3. Re: Sugar in the gas tank. (score: 1): Author: Bullwinkle <yd3@nvc.net>; Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 19:35:51 -0700; Blake <<<snip>>>; /html/mgs/2000-10/msg00627.html (7,314 bytes)
4. Re: Sugar in the gas tank. (score: 1): Author: JustBrits@aol.com; Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 20:44:17 EDT; << Last I heard sugar does not dissolve in gasoline. Therefore any that gets into the fuel lines should be filtered by the fuel filter. None should reach the engine. >> And if, as most, vehicle has n; /html/mgs/2000-10/msg00628.html (7,498 bytes)
5. Re: Sugar in the gas tank. (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 20:51:16 -0400; I would think a pretty small percentage of the cars out there nowadays don't have fuel filters. It's pretty much mandatory with fuel injection, and fuel injection is pretty much universal. I realize; /html/mgs/2000-10/msg00629.html (8,200 bytes)
6. RE: Sugar in the gas tank. (score: 1): Author: "Charley Robinson" <charleyrob@bigfoot.com>; Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 23:45:32 -0400; Can't say if it dissolves or not or what the consequences might be, but back in the '50s a person I knew put several school busses out of commission for several days by dumping sugar in the gas tanks; /html/mgs/2000-10/msg00633.html (9,167 bytes)
7. Re: Sugar in the gas tank. (score: 1): Author: "Stanley Brohn" <stanley_brohn@hotmail.com>; Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 23:48:22 EDT; Sugar in the gas tank should not cause a lot of problems. The modern day gas should dissolve most of it out and and at most may require the gas tank screen (if any) filters (if any) to be cleaned or; /html/mgs/2000-10/msg00634.html (8,173 bytes)
8. Re: Sugar in the gas tank. (score: 1): Author: Bullwinkle <yd3@nvc.net>; Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 23:32:25 -0700; Before everyone starts going by what they've heard, you need to KNOW the answers to the following questions: Sugar is soluble in what materials? Sugar is crystalline. What is the average size of each; /html/mgs/2000-10/msg00635.html (8,210 bytes)
9. Re: Sugar in the gas tank. (score: 1): Author: Carl Elliott <grunt2@adelphia.net>; Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 09:45:16 -0400; Gummed and clogged. It might even scratch the cyl. walls. Only did one back in the late 70s. and I remember all I had to do was have everything boiled out. Then reassembled. Carl E.; /html/mgs/2000-10/msg00641.html (7,614 bytes)
10. Re: Sugar in the gas tank. (score: 1): Author: Ajhsys@aol.com; Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 10:03:01 EDT; << The real problems comes if some one put the sugar in the engine's crankcase. Then the sugar will turn to whatever and can go as far as causing the engine to freeze up. Most of the time it doesn't; /html/mgs/2000-10/msg00642.html (8,143 bytes)

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