[Vwdiesel] Alternative diesel

[Shirley, Mark R]

It wasn't just Mythbusters that covered this.  There was an indepth
discussion of this some time ago on the jyturbo list, and the consensus
was that sugar doesn't dissolve in gasoline.  The list has some
chemists on it too.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Area31 Research Facility [mailto:stephensrw at stn.net]
> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 4:02 PM
> To: David Cook; diesel list
> 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
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