I came across this in Snopes. While I have seen many things over the years they have proven or disproven this one seems to be one they have disproven but it is something I have held most of my life to be true. When I was in my early teens I helped my father replace the engine in my sister's car because her psycho wannabe boyfriend poured sugar into her gas tank. Now snopes is telling me todaythe money we forked outfor the new engine didn't need to be spent because the engine was fine. I really wannaraise a BS flag here because I tore down the old engine and all of the components were siezed. The pistons were welded into position when we tried to remove them.
I think they did that one a couple of years ago and debunked it. It should be on their fan site message board. I think its www.disoverychannel/mythbusters.
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mythbuster did test it along with bleach, and a bunch of other things. engine ran fine on just about every item they tested except for one. the sugar had no effect on the motor.
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Yeah, that's pretty shady reporting--the results are based off of Berkley research in 1994 that showed sugar doesn't dissolve in gasoline. BIG PROBLEM with the logic there--gasoline is no longer just gasoline anymore. In many states it's 10% ethanol, or more, and sugar DOES dissolve in ethanol.
Bleach had a very adverse effect on the fuel system when they did this on Mythbusters. Everything in the fuel system corroded. Sugar had no effect as I recall.
I don't care what mythbusters said about sugar in the gas tank, it's one I am going to keep believing based upon experience rather than what their clinical tests came up with.
This was in Washington state, I am huessing so as a result of the rain there would be a higher than normal amount of water mixed in with the gas. It was regular leaded gas in the vehicle and the year was 83 or 84. Sure as **** it siezed up the engine forcing a replacement engine and a complete fuel system flush.
I don't care what mythbusters said about sugar in the gas tank, it's one I am going to keep believing based upon experience rather than what their clinical tests came up with.
This was in Washington state, I am huessing so as a result of the rain there would be a higher than normal amount of water mixed in with the gas. It was regular leaded gas in the vehicle and the year was 83 or 84. Sure as **** it siezed up the engine forcing a replacement engine and a complete fuel system flush.
i don't know a lot about cars so this is just a guess, but it probably caused damage due to the fact cars back then either didn't have have as many filters and/or the filters weren't as good, so the sugar actually reached the engine. in a modern car filters are specifically desgined to keep something like that from happening. so the sugar should never reach the engine. sugar won't dissolve in gasoline, but i am sure if it were to make it to the engine the heat would cause it to melt.
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