The wifes cousin has just had a bad break up with a psyco girl, his car wouldn't start so he found some crystals around the gas filler area and it is surgar. What will this do and what to do to fix this.The car is a 200X Chevy caviler. Thanks

The wifes cousin has just had a bad break up with a psyco girl, his car wouldn't start so he found some crystals around the gas filler area and it is surgar. What will this do and what to do to fix this.The car is a 200X Chevy caviler. Thanks
That must be one SWEET ride:D:D....sorry, couldn't help it!

You always hear bad things, but I really don't know what it could do. looks like today's filters should catch it.

http://www.snopes.com/autos/grace/sugar.asp

Mythbusters TV show tried it once and found no real issues caused by the sugar. The fix would be to stop dating psycho girls.

Vernon

The fix would be to stop dating psycho girls.

Vernon

And buy a locking gas cap.

Change the fuel filter, and do it every couple of days, for a week or two.

I know everyone has a story that they heard of, but really, my good friend had this happen once to a early 90's s-10 (just his work truck). It was one stupid thing after another.........started with the fp relay, filter, fpr, etc. Tune up next, etc... Not knowing what it was, they'd fix something, he'd run it for a day, then something else would screw up, no codes. Injector clean, TB clean, etc... It got to the point where basically everything in the fuel system was cleaned or replaced and they decided to go to the scource...gas tank/fuel pump. Yup. Sure enough, everything they replaced was shot again. I think it gels up the fuel. He ended up junking the truck b/c of the whole ordeal.

i would yank the tank and flush and change filter.

This happened to me with a gasser truck and I had and a very similar situation, crazy women..... Trust me, you'll save alot of headaches, $$$, and time, just drop the tank and clean it out along with the filter.

Mythbusters TV show tried it once and found no real issues caused by the sugar. The fix would be to stop dating psycho girls.

Vernon

I saw the same show,that car was an old heep that was carbureted w/mechanical fuel pump.

Sugar is mostly a myth but enough would do harm of some sort so replacing the fuel filter is a good idea. Now if you want to bone someone dump 1-2 gallons of laquer thinners in their tank, this will cause a melt down of anything rubber and it will run real hot for a bit. This myth has been confirmed but i cant say by whom, when or where.

don't know if having ethanol mixed with gas makes difference, i have had couple boat engines carb and injected, had to flush system and replace filters, carbs required to be cleaned and fuel injectors had to be backflushed/cleaned. i never saw problems before from doing this but seems worse since alcohol in gas, fuel filters used to catch granules and passages in carbs were small enough to pass thru.