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Originally Posted by iwantchixx
wrong, go check out discovery.com and look for mythbusters. it was proven that it does nothing to the engine.
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Yup! I stand corrected! also found this excerpt!
However you can still cause the car to stop running by causing blockage in the fuel filter!
Was reading a magazine that had a a true/false quiz about things that can hurt your car, one that really caught my eye was that sugar in the gas will ruin your engine. The answer was false, my reaction was BS, everyone knows that thousands of engines have been sabatoged by this method. Ruined by being stuck with an internal coating of carmalized sugar, have heard this all my life. Well this must be the standard reaction because the guy went on to say"put sugar in a jar of gas and see if you can get it to disolve" said it will only disolve in water not oil(gasoline). I put a teaspoon of sugar in a pint bottle and filled it 3/4 full of gas,shook it hard and long. As soon as I stopped the sugar would settle to the bottom of the jar like white sand. Poured a couple oz of this sugar saturated gas into a tin can which I set in the middle of the shop floor and lit it, thinking that when the gas burned away that the can should have a layer of sugar/carmel in the bottom. Well it did a slow burn for 10 min untill the gas burned up.When the can cooled I checked it, found only a bit of gasoline soot, not a trace of sugar. Thw story said that the worst thing sugar could do is to plug the fuel filter with sugar granules. What do you guys think. What about an old tractor with gravity fuel feed and only a screen in the fuel system, would sugar granules get into the engine or would it just plug the screen or carb jets ?? This looks like another urban legend bites the dust.