[Vwdiesel] Alternative diesel

[James Hansen]

That is in today's cars.
Go back a number of years prior, to where fuel filtration was pretty
sketchy, and on cars that had been owned for some time, may even have the
compressed brass bead filter that is on the carb inlet removed, adn in many
cases, that was the only filter in the system.   Old stuff had big jets,
hard to clog fuel systems, so much so that the fuel they could use would
kill a fuel injection system of today dead in it's tracks. It would be
nothing for particulate sugar to get through an old system.  see my other
post as well.  I know it did.
-James

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Behalf Of David Cook
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 7:51 AM
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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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