[Shop-talk] Engine damage

[Fred Katz]

I just read up on why bleach destroys an engine. The chlorine reacts
chemically with gasoline and causes extreme rusting (oxidation). A high volume
of rust sediment will be found in the engine. Additionally, the bleach
corrodes all metal, plastic and rubber it comes into contact with. Also breaks
free sediment in gas tanks and fuel lines, sending it to the engine when
running.

Fred -

On Sep 30, 2013, at 9:17 AM, eric at 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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