Sugar in diesel
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Jimfandango
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I'm sure I remember dad saying how he wanted to dump a load of sugar in someone's tractor fuel tank because he reckoned that he knowingly sold him a BSE cow back in the day. My understanding was that it really f*!ked the engine. (One would reasonaly think that it would). It never happened in practice though. Reason prevailed unfortunately
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- Le Veurde, Allier, France 03320
I understand that after a falling out with an ex employer my late uncle may have poured sugar into the ex employer’s fuel tank causing a seized engine. All now dead so don’t know about the validity of it. I would not be risking putting it in anything of mine and I am normally not too risk adverse.
biggles
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- derbyshire
ollie989898
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Fudge that. There is no way you want to be putting that into an engine.
Bogweevil
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Adding Sugar to a Car’s Gas Tank Does Not Actually Destroy an Engine
It's a longstanding legend stretching nearly 70 years. Let's do some mythbusting.
www.popularmechanics.com
Seem to remember someone having a tractor sugared by someone which lead to it stopping and the engine needing stripping down and cleaning, that was probably an early 70s tractor so it would probably proper knacker a new one. Not worth the hassle or expense, keep it for fire lighting.
As a random fact apparently jelly babies will have the same affect
As a random fact apparently jelly babies will have the same affect
bl00dy ech im glad our machine's are under lock and key at night!
IMHO - best course.
Google seems to reckon the diesel won't dissolve the liquid sugar, so = and it's going to be a bit labour intensive - drain out the diesel from the IBC in to a clean one or another suitable container. Either try pouring in as much boiling hot water you can get together into the container to dissolve/dilute the sugar (which I'm assuming will be a bit treacle like??), agitate and pour out, depending on what it looks like maybe repeat. If you've got access to a steam cleaner that would probably be better, or even in addition. Drain out as best you can. If you want to try and get any remnants of the water/sugar mix out throw some methylated spirit in which will absorb the water, swill that out.
Google seems to reckon the diesel won't dissolve the liquid sugar, so = and it's going to be a bit labour intensive - drain out the diesel from the IBC in to a clean one or another suitable container. Either try pouring in as much boiling hot water you can get together into the container to dissolve/dilute the sugar (which I'm assuming will be a bit treacle like??), agitate and pour out, depending on what it looks like maybe repeat. If you've got access to a steam cleaner that would probably be better, or even in addition. Drain out as best you can. If you want to try and get any remnants of the water/sugar mix out throw some methylated spirit in which will absorb the water, swill that out.
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- SW Scotland
How did the diesel get into there? If the delivery driver put it in the wrong tank, tell them to come and pick it up again.
And also clog the engine up with carbon....
davidroberts30
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- pembrokeshire
think id let the IBC's settle and see if it settles out
if it does siphon off the top a few gallon at a time and mix it 50/50 with good diesel
if it doesnt your workshop or house will be warm this winter..
if it does siphon off the top a few gallon at a time and mix it 50/50 with good diesel
if it doesnt your workshop or house will be warm this winter..
ollie989898
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I think project farm did some tests on this and found that granulate sugar didn't dissolve in either petrol or diesel but it did cause a lot of extra fouling in the engine. I'd be wary of coating the internals of a modern engine, let alone the fuel system, injectors and sensors with residue it was never designed to cope with. I see this is liquid sugar though also, which may well have all kinds of additives in it- molasses is often more than just sugar from memory.
Pistonbroke
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I'm by means saying it's fine,but the liquid sugar is 67% sugar and 33% water, neither of which dissolve in diesel. If it can be settled out in the ibc tanks it shouldn't get as far as the engine
It might be cheaper to not use the diesel than it is to emigrate ( at dead of night)........
