How would you know if someone put sugar in your tank what would the car do once it had been started or ran for a while, is there and engine code for that
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Sucrose is not gasoline-soluble. IF this happened to you, it would simply sit in the bottom of the tank indefinitely.
HOWEVER, if by some means sugar crystals managed to get past the fuel pump strainer, they would be cought in your main fuel filter possibly causing the filter to fully or partially clog.
That being said. No, there isn't a code for "You have sugar in your fuel tank"
-Dave
HOWEVER, if by some means sugar crystals managed to get past the fuel pump strainer, they would be cought in your main fuel filter possibly causing the filter to fully or partially clog.
That being said. No, there isn't a code for "You have sugar in your fuel tank"
-Dave
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Sugar in your gas tank is bad news. If it does happen to get past the pump and filter, it would end up in your engine. I've heard stories where the engine had to be pulled apart since the heat and sugar+gasoline mixture turned into a gummy substance. The car will not run.
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Just put a locking gas cap on and don't worry about it. The one people tend to do now is soda pop in the tank...
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I'm just glad our cars do not have an easily seen cap. I'm suprised if anyone I know even thought of looking behind the plate.
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A tad off topic:
I still remember the day I picked up my SS from the previous owner. He left it with the fuel empty so I drove to get gas. I parked in the stall, because I didnt want to look like a clutz parking at the wrong side of the pump island. I looked at both sides for the filler cap. Hmmm WTF? I didnt even think it was behind the plate. Dont ask what I was thinking, but I still tried jiggling the plate, and for some reason I didnt pull it top down. I ended up sitting in the passenger seat looking through the owners manual or the location.
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A WTF? I didnt even think it was behind the plate. Dont ask what I was thinking, but I still tried jiggling the plate, and for some reason I didnt pull it top down. I ended up sitting in the passenger seat looking through the owners manual for the location.
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This is the oldest way in the world to FUBAR an engine. The sugar will go into solution and once it get to the combustion chamber it burns! You know what you get when sugar burns ... a gummy mess. It will seize an engine within a matter of minutes of being started.
If some one put sugar in your gas you probably wouldn't make it out of the driveway or, at the most, to the end of the block.
SStewart
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yeap sugar is a main ingredient in smoke bombs. When heated with the other substance you get a nice gooey residue. Im sure that sugar wont go well with your engine..
Now how about the mothballs in the gas tank. Is it true that it is almost the equilivant of nitromethane? My dads friend keeps insisting it is and told me a story about how they did it to a beater car (supposedly after you shut the car off the mothballs will seize up the motor). He swears hes telling the truth, then again hes old..
Matt
Now how about the mothballs in the gas tank. Is it true that it is almost the equilivant of nitromethane? My dads friend keeps insisting it is and told me a story about how they did it to a beater car (supposedly after you shut the car off the mothballs will seize up the motor). He swears hes telling the truth, then again hes old..
Matt
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Bar soap is suposed to be pretty neat in the tank. Yes you have to cut it up. It kind of congeals and floats around then plugs your pick-up line. Then when the car dies and the suction is gone it will fall away and float around for a while then back around the pick-up it goes... you get the idea.
Calvin
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A tad off topic:
I still remember the day I picked up my SS from the previous owner. He left it with the fuel empty so I drove to get gas. I parked in the stall, because I didnt want to look like a clutz parking at the wrong side of the pump island. I looked at both sides for the filler cap. Hmmm WTF? I didnt even think it was behind the plate. Dont ask what I was thinking, but I still tried jiggling the plate, and for some reason I didnt pull it top down. I ended up sitting in the passenger seat looking through the owners manual or the location.
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A tad off topic:
I still remember the day I picked up my SS from the previous owner. He left it with the fuel empty so I drove to get gas. I parked in the stall, because I didnt want to look like a clutz parking at the wrong side of the pump island. I looked at both sides for the filler cap. Hmmm WTF? I didnt even think it was behind the plate. Dont ask what I was thinking, but I still tried jiggling the plate, and for some reason I didnt pull it top down. I ended up sitting in the passenger seat looking through the owners manual or the location. I like the filler behind the plate, even though I get people upset because I have to pull up and some times take up the whole island.</font>[/QUOTE]
geez guys I already knew where it was before I bought my car. I used to have a 69 chevelle and those had it behind the plate...
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Had a plastic freezer bad in a unit once,drove me crazy trying to find the problem(same as the soap).But I've always been told that you'd have to put least 5lbs. of sugar to do any harm and since the sugar will sit at the bottom of the tank it could take awhile to do any harm
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Holy cow, that's an old one. Buddy of mine did some research on that a few years back when he started circle track racing. Naphthalene (mothballs) has an octane rating of about 90, so back when gas had an octane rating of around 40, then yes, 5 mothballs to a gallon of gas would bump the octane up significantly. But now, you can buy pump gas at 93 octane, so mothballs are useless. Plus, they will cause all kinds of clogging problems as the gas eveporates and they settle out of solution.
Anyway, I don't think they make mothballs out of naphthalene anymore. Seems like they use some kind of chlorine-benzene compound. This is significant because burning the chlorine in the engine will result in HCl (hydrochloric acid). I doubt that's too good for the motor!
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Growing up we had or I later had;
'69 Cutlass Supreme
'68 Impala
'71 Impala
'82 Bonneville
So I knew where it was...
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Yup, now days they're made out of paradichloral benzine I believe - which isn't as fun as naphline. - JM.
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My Dad, an old street racer, told me the trick of the moth balls in the tank. I just had to try it then. I was 16ish and was still cruising around in my beloved 1970 RS Z28 with a ZZ3 crate motor in it. All I noticed was a little different smell coming from the exhaust, didn't seem to do any damage. Got some accusations of running racing fuel on the street by a few of my buddies though 
As far as the location of the gas filler, I bought this car after getting rid of my 70 Chevelle, it kind of surprised me, but didn't take too long to figure it out. I imagined somebody would have to read the manual
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Oh and my wifes job pays for her gas, since she runs all the errands for the office, she keeps the car full of 93.
As far as the location of the gas filler, I bought this car after getting rid of my 70 Chevelle, it kind of surprised me, but didn't take too long to figure it out. I imagined somebody would have to read the manual
Oh and my wifes job pays for her gas, since she runs all the errands for the office, she keeps the car full of 93.
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