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Chocolate Mini-Eggs in the gas tank...How much damage would it cause

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imported_Champ

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I had a friend have this happen to him a little while ago, he is unsure of how many eggs got into the gas tank but found some around the gas cap trying to fill up. He continued to drive and now says the truck does not accelerate well and sputters.

He is really worried in which he should be. I would think that the fuel filter would catch any of the derbies from the dissolving eggs (would they dissolve?)

Well garage, what do you think?
 
well the sugars and oils and what nots will have passed through the fuel system dissolved. this is going to get ugly fast. praise jesus
 
nasty either way

I had a friend who had salt-water dumped into his boat tank. Ruined everything.

I would call my insurance company and total the vehicle.....heheh
 
since he continues to drive it, run the tank almost empty and pull it and flush it out. Add clean fuel and run it some more to clean the lines out. Move up the system and replace filters and clean it out and hope for the best. If it is a carb, pull that and clean out the bowl and rebuild it with a kit.
Most likely it is injected, so after the tank and filter changes and flushing with clean fuel, try an injector cleaning product.
Edit: Dang it, the fuel return line will put some of the crap back into the cleaned tank. If he has the skills to detach that and let the car idle a while and capture that fuel in a separate container, I'd do that to be sure of getting the crap out.
 
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I worked on a vehicle that had sugar dumped into the fuel tank. The inside of the intake manifold looked and smelled like carmelized candy. Need to replace the fuel injectors, clean the intake, flush out the fuel lines, replace the fuel filter, replace fuel pump, and clean out the tank. Wasn't pretty.
 
TekViper said:
I worked on a vehicle that had sugar dumped into the fuel tank. The inside of the intake manifold looked and smelled like carmelized candy. Need to replace the fuel injectors, clean the intake, flush out the fuel lines, replace the fuel filter, replace fuel pump, and clean out the tank. Wasn't pretty.
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It all went past the fuel filter?
 
Throckmorton said:
Ethanol isn't a hydrocarbon either.
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uhhh what? Yes it is. The only difference between ethane and ethanol is 1 oxygen atom.


This seems like an interesting experiment to try. Put a piece of chocolate in some gasoline and see if it dissolves. If it doesn't, even after stirring it a lot, then your friend might have a problem on his hands.
If it does dissolve, then it will eventually get flushed through the system.
 
ShawnD1 said:
uhhh what? Yes it is. The only difference between ethane and ethanol is 1 oxygen atom.


This seems like an interesting experiment to try. Put a piece of chocolate in some gasoline and see if it dissolves. If it doesn't, even after stirring it a lot, then your friend might have a problem on his hands.
If it does dissolve, then it will eventually get flushed through the system.
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I said sugar was a hydrocarbon and got flamed, then I said ethanol isn't a hydrocarbon and got flamed. I can't win
 
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