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Re: [Shop-talk] Engine damage

To: "eric@megageek.com" <eric@megageek.com>
Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Engine damage
From: Fred Katz <roadster@astound.net>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 18:42:08 -0700
Cc: "shop-talk@Autox.Team.Net" <shop-talk@Autox.Team.Net>
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Bleach added to a gas tank will destroy an engine.

Fred - SSF, CA

On Sep 30, 2013, at 9:17 AM, eric@megageek.com wrote:

> Hello all, theoretical question about engines. 
> 
> My co-workers and I were talking about trying to identify if an engine was 
> tampered with after it was destroyed. (I work in law enforcement.)
> 
> We were wondering, would you be able to tell if someone put sugar in a gas 
> tank and it lunched the engine?  Mostly on a small engine verses a car. 
> (I'm assuming that a fuel filter would catch any additives in a car.)
> 
> If so, is there something else to put in gas that would kill it?  Or 
> something else that can be done that was undetectable?
> 
> I knew this would be the place for the definitive answer!
> 
> Eric P
> "Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational 
> being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory." Ralph 
> Waldo Emerson 
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