Thread: gas tank?

Originally Posted by minichopper6hp

omg, who did that? mythbusters did a special on that and the sugar had no effect. i wonder if it would be different between a fuel injected motor though, they tested it on a carbed one and i wonder if it would clog the injectors or just dissolve.

Some kids out vandalizing random cars on a night when I forgot to put mine in the garage.

The sugar was still granular, from what I've been able to find, it won't dissolve in gasoline, so it really did nothing other than sit there. With the way our system is routed, very little made it into the tank anyway. I still cleaned it out ASAP, though.

Originally Posted by Scimmia

Some kids out vandalizing random cars on a night when I forgot to put mine in the garage.

The sugar was still granular, from what I've been able to find, it won't dissolve in gasoline, so it really did nothing other than sit there. With the way our system is routed, very little made it into the tank anyway. I still cleaned it out ASAP, though.

So if MythBusters did a show on the subject and they said there was no effect but, if sugar doesn't dissolve in gasoline then nothing was proved.
Hmmmm, I thought gas would dissolve sugar.

Originally Posted by dstout

So if MythBusters did a show on the subject and they said there was no effect but, if sugar doesn't dissolve in gasoline then nothing was proved.
Hmmmm, I thought gas would dissolve sugar.

Yeah, I would have thought so, too, but I still had granular sugar at the bottom of the tank, and I found this on snopes:

Sugar doesn't dissolve in gasoline, as a researcher at Berkeley confirmed in 1994. Forensics professor John Thornton labeled sucrose with radioactive carbon atoms and mixed it with gasoline, then spun the concoction in a centrifuge. After the undissolved particles were removed, the liquid's radiation level was measured to determine how much sucrose had become part of the gasoline. The answer was extremely little: the equivalent of less than a teaspoonful per 15-gallon tank of gas.

snopes.com: Sugar in the Gas Tank

I didn't see that episode so I don't know, but they are a couple of smart fella's......I guess it was Busted eh?