If someone puts sugar in your gas tank and you have fuel injectors what can happen to your engine if you start and run your car?
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Time to get a new engine. BOOM
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The grains of sugar will glog your fuel injectors, and your car won't get the fuel it needs to run. And yes, you'll 'prolly need a new engine. Your whole fuel system will have to be replaced. If you don't try and run the car, then it's more than likely salvageable, just replace your fuel system. If you have an older car, it might be cheaper (LOL) to buy a newer car. Hope this didn't happen to you. Good luck!
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Actually, the only likely damage to the car is that the fuel filter will get clogged. Sugar does *not* dissolve in gasoline. So you could replace the sugar with corn starch, sand, talcum powder, or whatever and have the same effect. Apparently some people try to circumvent this by pouring sugared water into the gas tank, but that has the same effect as plain water. http://www.snopes.com/autos/grace/sugar.asp
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I have to admit .. having fixed more then one car with sugar in the tank.. yes it does it's damage.. the sugar gets pilvarized by the sloshing of fuel and can break down or even melt when the fuel pump heats up.. sugar has a low melting point. so i have changed MAP's..injectors.. chipped out intakes and flushed many a fuel line with hot boiling water.. also .. just an FYI the worst damage is done in an area that has climate changes or is colder more then it is hot.. the colder weather helps the melted sugar harden like rock candy till t builds up.. and clogs vacums and injectors.. it can be very costly and the reason a sugared engine goes BOOM!! is the clogging damage runs the motor lean and well we all know what that does,..
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Never put anything in your engine without consulting a professional.
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I recently had this done to my Jeep - someone put sugar in my gas tank. The first thing that went was my fuel pump. After I replaced my fuel pump, my head gasket went. Since I was still having problems starting my jeep, I took it back to the garage and complained. That is when I found out that sugar had been put in my gas tank. There was a coating of sugar on my fuel injectors. As a result, the fuel pump was changed again, gas tank was flushed and the fuel injectors were replaced. I estimate the total damage was a cost to me of $5,000.00; the insurance claim covered around $2,0000.00 stating that the vandalism of sugar was not a factor in my head gasket blowing. I now have a locking gas cap!
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