Sugar in gas tank, help!

[AmishMike]

"Shame folks be throwing away a perfectly good white boy like that"

Wasn't that 'Men at Work'?

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[Gvsukids]

The filler door on my wife's Subaru opens the same way ours doors, but it locks with the doors. The tech exists.

Ram tradesman has no locking door and no cap.

 

[Rusty PW]

Ram tradesman has no locking door and no cap.

My one work truck, F150 is like that. So is my wife's Compass.

 

[AmishMike]

Well now I have an idea for April Fool's.

Just pour a little bit on the ground below the filler.

<taster's choice voice> Let's see who notices.

When I was in high school, we used to keep the extra parts from shop class. Plugs, wires, random nuts and bolts etc.. Then late at night we would throw them under someone's car. Sometimes open the hood or whatever. Never did any damage other than opening the hood. It definitely caused concerns, but was great way to get back at someone.
Nowadays, I think that would be called 'criminal mischief'. Back then, the cops just laughed.

 

[Rusty PW]

When I was in high school, we used to keep the extra parts from shop class. Plugs, wires, random nuts and bolts etc.. Then late at night we would throw them under someone's car. Sometimes open the hood or whatever. Never did any damage other than opening the hood. It definitely caused concerns, but was great way to get back at someone.
Nowadays, I think that would be called 'criminal mischief'. Back then, the cops just laughed.

Hi Spot Bluing compound. The stuff is worse than walnut stain to remove from your skin. Used to put that stuff on door knobs and handles. On wrenches, inside of gloves. Guys would get it. And start BITCHIN'. LOL

 

[AmishMike]

Hi Spot Bluing compound. The stuff is worse than walnut stain to remove from your skin. Used to put that stuff on door knobs and handles. On wrenches, inside of gloves. Guys would get it. And start BITCHIN'. LOL

I know that trick very well. Used to work at an engine shop. Worse than anti-seize.

 

[IamPro2A]

This sounds so weird and peculiar and either very specific or very random. The few hours the Jeep is actually accessible to do this. The other more valuable car not touched, nor the cars in the driveway. Maybe the OP has split personalities and his alter ego wanted a Taco or Bronco?

 

[KevinM60]

Hi Spot Bluing compound. The stuff is worse than walnut stain to remove from your skin. Used to put that stuff on door knobs and handles. On wrenches, inside of gloves. Guys would get it. And start BITCHIN'. LOL

I'm in the Machinist trade. Full time programmer and engineer now but we used to do that back when they still had the high spot with dye like you described. We learned to always checked under our toolbox handles and just about anywhere else the stuff could be hidden.
Crazy daze. ?

 

[Glad Jeeper]

This truly is one of the most entertaining threads I have read in a long time!!! Sorry for all the trouble you are going through.

 

[MPMB]

When I was in high school, we used to keep the extra parts from shop class. Plugs, wires, random nuts and bolts etc.. Then late at night we would throw them under someone's car. Sometimes open the hood or whatever. Never did any damage other than opening the hood. It definitely caused concerns, but was great way to get back at someone.
Nowadays, I think that would be called 'criminal mischief'. Back then, the cops just laughed.

PB under door handles was a good one, too.

While *I* didn't do anything nefarious in HS, my b-i-l (we went to the same HS, only 6 years apart) has great stories. Like the time he got caught by the school admins, parking without a parking pass (gasp!), so they chained a 55 gallon barrel to his wheel. His buddy saw it, so at lunch he ran to my b-i-l's shop, grabbed the bolt cutters, and came back and cut the chain. They left the barrel and chain there so it looked like it was still connected to the car.

School let out. My b-i-l got in his car, fired it up, and cruised out of the parking lot, all under the incredulous eyes of the school administration.

Where is that barrel today, since it was gone by the time I was in HS? It's sitting in the bottom of Lake Chelan, filled with concrete and rocks as an anchor for a ski jump.

 

[Stuntman Mike]

Funny, they did not touch my Challenger or the two vehicles outside. This is just getting weirder.
Varooom

1970?

 

[AmishMike]

@MPMB in hs, between friends we would pick up and move cars then turn them sideways so they couldn’t get out. Sometimes just park so close that a sheet of paper fit between and the couldn’t get in.
Hijinx when I worked at the dealership were much more intense

 

[MPMB]

@MPMB in hs, between friends we would pick up and move cars then turn them sideways so they couldn’t get out. Sometimes just park so close that a sheet of paper fit between and the couldn’t get in.
Hijinx when I worked at the dealership were much more intense

yeah, my sister's friend had a VW beetle. More than one occasion she found it on the cafeteria chairs.

my buddy forgot to put his S10 blazer in park, so I pushed it to the back of the parking lot next to the tennis courts.

it took him a good 30 seconds to realize his truck wasn't stolen.

 

[Stuntman Mike]

I have heard about this "putting sugar into the tank" more than often during my driving career.

And I would take it serious, but since I am a diesel owner, does it effects me?

 

[AmishMike]

Nah, it ups the cetane rating just like mothballs.

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