[Vwdiesel] Alternative diesel

[Shirley, Mark R]

Yes, the sugar thing is an urban legend, however, there
ARE things you can put in gasoline that will dissolve and
just about weld the engine solid.  And I can't remember what
it is, but I have it at home somewhere.  And I don't think
I'm going to post it to a public list anyways.  Too much
temptation for mischief.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Cook [mailto:vwdieselbunny at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 9:51 AM
> To: diesel list
> Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] Alternative diesel
> 
> 
> 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
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