[Vwdiesel] Alternative diesel

[David Cook]

The Car Talk guys once answered this as a question. 
They said that sugar won't dissolve in the gasoline,
it'll remain crystalized.

What they said would happen, if anything, is that the
sugar could clog up the fuel filter.  If you didn't
have a fuel filter for some reason, then I suppose it
would clog up something further down the line.

They basically said the whole sugar in the gastank
thing was one of those things that happens to your
best friend's aunts' mother's sister's cousin's dad's
dog's mother's owner.  In other words, an urban
legend.

David


--- Mark Shepherd <mark at shepher.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
> ... Ah you mean the 'sugar in the fuel tank'
> sabotage...
> Heard but not experienced.
> Call me crazy but who'd have thought we'd bring back
> Thalidomide 'poison'..
> I guess its too many lateral puzzles in my youth(and
> now)
>  What actually happens? Blocked jets in the carb?
> Surely if
> the crystals dissolved in the tank then any
> crystallisation
> in the jets could be redissolved with a less than
> saturated
> solution. Could it be precipitation caused by the
> cooling
> effect of gasoline vaporisation?
> Maybe it was carboning up of the combustion chamber.
> Would
> this happen in a diesel?



David Cook
Red '86 Cabriolet Diesel Powered
Red '90 g60 Corrado 
Brown and White '78 Westy Campmobile "Bear"
and others in various states of disrepair
Pictures here: community.webshots.com/user/superdave5599

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