sugar in the tank?
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sugar in the tank?
i may have had sugar added to my arctic cat prowler here recently causing me an locked up engine....and also is there anyway to check to see if this has been done so i can check my other toys such as my 07 ultra?if added to the gas...what would be the outcome in the failure?what is supposed to happen when sugar is added to the gas?
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i may have had sugar added to my arctic cat prowler here recently causing me an locked up engine....and also is there anyway to check to see if this has been done so i can check my other toys such as my 07 ultra?if added to the gas...what would be the outcome in the failure?what is supposed to happen when sugar is added to the gas?
i may have had sugar added to my arctic cat prowler here recently causing me an locked up engine....and also is there anyway to check to see if this has been done so i can check my other toys such as my 07 ultra?if added to the gas...what would be the outcome in the failure?what is supposed to happen when sugar is added to the gas?
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Wow..... they even tell what to do instead of sugar.
So what do you do if you really do want to disable someone's car? You could indeed pour a lot of sand or sugar in the gas tank and hope for a filter clog. Water might be a better choice, however. Gasoline floats on top of water. If you pour in several cups of water, the fuel pump will fill the fuel lines with water instead of gasoline and the car would have some major problems. Another option, of course if to drain all of the gasoline out of the tank. Or, if you can get the hood open, you could remove the battery -- that totally disables the electrical system, including the spark plugs and the computer that controls the engine in most modern cars
So what do you do if you really do want to disable someone's car? You could indeed pour a lot of sand or sugar in the gas tank and hope for a filter clog. Water might be a better choice, however. Gasoline floats on top of water. If you pour in several cups of water, the fuel pump will fill the fuel lines with water instead of gasoline and the car would have some major problems. Another option, of course if to drain all of the gasoline out of the tank. Or, if you can get the hood open, you could remove the battery -- that totally disables the electrical system, including the spark plugs and the computer that controls the engine in most modern cars
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As a minor league juvenile delinquent, my friends and I didn't really want to cause serious harm to someone but still wanted to inconvience the jerk. On a V8 engine, we just changed around the sparkplug wires to different cylinders. I'm sure they had a hell of a time figuring out why the car wouldn't run, while we did not really cause any real physical damage. Of course, that was wrong.
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Our fav was to pound a potato into the exhaust. When they 1st start it there is an odd quietness then KABOOOOOOOM !
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HDbiker was correct, sugar doesn't dissolve in gas, just plugs things. I evidently pissed someone off and got sugar dumped in my Ram. Just plugged thegas filter and a little bit got to my injectors. Ran like crap. Dropped the tank and flushed it, power cleaned the injectors, good to go. Still think whoever did itis a bastard, cost $400 to get back on the road. I now have a locking gas cap...
Sugar in the oil is a different matter, any possibility they could have gotten it in with your oil?
Sugar in the oil is a different matter, any possibility they could have gotten it in with your oil?
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As a minor league juvenile delinquent, my friends and I didn't really want to cause serious harm to someone but still wanted to inconvience the jerk. On a V8 engine, we just changed around the sparkplug wires to different cylinders. I'm sure they had a hell of a time figuring out why the car wouldn't run, while we did not really cause any real physical damage. Of course, that was wrong.
As a minor league juvenile delinquent, my friends and I didn't really want to cause serious harm to someone but still wanted to inconvience the jerk. On a V8 engine, we just changed around the sparkplug wires to different cylinders. I'm sure they had a hell of a time figuring out why the car wouldn't run, while we did not really cause any real physical damage. Of course, that was wrong.
That is just too funny!
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