[Vwdiesel] Alternative diesel

[Area31 Research Facility]

Since I posted this I have seen several comments that indicate that what I
suffered was not sugar but something else added to the fuel tank.  If this
is the case I do not know what the substance was, but the damage was real.

Rob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Area31 Research Facility" <stephensrw at stn.net>
To: "David Cook" <vwdieselbunny at yahoo.com>; "diesel list"
<vwdiesel at vwfans.com>
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 4:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] Alternative diesel


> I bought a Chevy once with a sugared 350 V-8.  The pistons were seized in
> their bores from gunk.  I managed to get it to turn and eventually idle by
> soaking the cylinders through the spark plug holes with liquid wrench and
> WD-40.  I sold the car as a project to someone who reported back that they
> had taken the engine apart and it was "not pretty".
>
> I have a motorcycle that had suffered sugar put in the tank.  The
carburetor
> was completely plugged up and the throttle metering piston immovable.
>
> On this pitiful planet where bad actors are made in wholesale fashion this
> ain't no urban legend!
>
> Rob
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Cook" <vwdieselbunny at yahoo.com>
> To: "diesel list" <vwdiesel at vwfans.com>
> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 9:51 AM
> 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
> > 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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