# Candy Bar in a gas tank? **URL:** \ **Category:** Power/Fuel\ **Tags:** gas-tanks, gasoline\ **Created:** [December 1, 2008, 11:45pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/candy-bar-in-a-gas-tank/22797 "2008-12-01T23:45:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![linda2fye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/eb9ed0/32.png) [@linda2fye](https://community.cartalk.com/u/linda2fye)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 11:45pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/candy-bar-in-a-gas-tank/22797/1 "2008-12-01T23:45:57Z")
What would happen to a car if you put a king size snickers candy bar in it??? ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 11:58pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/candy-bar-in-a-gas-tank/22797/2 "2008-12-01T23:58:27Z")
Unless you shredded the candy bar, I don’t believe that it would be possible to get a king-sized candy bar through the very narrow gas filler neck. ---
**Author:** ![METOO2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b77776/32.png) [@METOO2](https://community.cartalk.com/u/METOO2)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 12:02am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/candy-bar-in-a-gas-tank/22797/3 "2008-12-02T00:02:54Z")
you would get a trouble code p1445,exhaust gas sweet condition. BLOOM IN THE WRAPPER ---
**Author:** ![ok4450](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ok4450](https://community.cartalk.com/u/ok4450)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 12:20am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/candy-bar-in-a-gas-tank/22797/4 "2008-12-02T00:20:15Z")
Nothing. The fuel tank strainer will keep the peanuts out of the pump and fuel system. If you have an issue with someone then confront them face to face rather than pull a childish vindictive prank. ---
**Author:** ![bobc455](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bobc455](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bobc455)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 12:22am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/candy-bar-in-a-gas-tank/22797/5 "2008-12-02T00:22:02Z")
Packed with peanuts, gasoline really satisfies ---
**Author:** ![hellokit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6a8cbe/32.png) [@hellokit](https://community.cartalk.com/u/hellokit)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 12:27am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/candy-bar-in-a-gas-tank/22797/6 "2008-12-02T00:27:35Z")
You’ve heard of "sweet crude oil? Well, this would be “sweet refined oil”. Put watching Myth Busters on your “must watch” tv list. They do this kind of stuff. ---
**Author:** ![METOO2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b77776/32.png) [@METOO2](https://community.cartalk.com/u/METOO2)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 12:28am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/candy-bar-in-a-gas-tank/22797/7 "2008-12-02T00:28:50Z")
good one! ---
**Author:** ![mr\_josh](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mr_josh/32/3008_2.png) [@mr\_josh](https://community.cartalk.com/u/mr_josh)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 12:36am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/candy-bar-in-a-gas-tank/22797/8 "2008-12-02T00:36:51Z")
What would happen to the car? Or what would happen to the person? Because if I caught someone doing something like that to my car, they’d catch a louisville slugger up the back of the head. ---
**Author:** ![METOO2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b77776/32.png) [@METOO2](https://community.cartalk.com/u/METOO2)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 12:41am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/candy-bar-in-a-gas-tank/22797/9 "2008-12-02T00:41:42Z")
dont BE shy! (UP the BACK of the HEAD,is that like an upper cut with a BAT???}or a slider??? how do you really FEEL! SLUGGER GONE! ---
**Author:** ![mr\_josh](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/mr_josh/32/3008_2.png) [@mr\_josh](https://community.cartalk.com/u/mr_josh)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 2:23am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/candy-bar-in-a-gas-tank/22797/10 "2008-12-02T02:23:50Z")
That’d be the eloquent way in which we rural-types express our defensiveness over automobiles. Terms such as “up 'side”, “down along” “'round under”, new parts of speech are invented and put in to the common vocabulary all of the time. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![GreasyJack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/df705f/32.png) [@GreasyJack](https://community.cartalk.com/u/GreasyJack)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 3:11am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/candy-bar-in-a-gas-tank/22797/11 "2008-12-02T03:11:19Z")
If the bar/wrapper stays together it shouldn’t hurt anything but it might dissolve into some sort of sludge that could very well clog things up. Why not buy a candy bar and put it in a small container of gasoline and see what happens? ---
**Author:** ![oldschool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e19adc/32.png) [@oldschool](https://community.cartalk.com/u/oldschool)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 3:19am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/candy-bar-in-a-gas-tank/22797/12 "2008-12-02T03:19:12Z")
You could “google” it ---
**Author:** ![hellokit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6a8cbe/32.png) [@hellokit](https://community.cartalk.com/u/hellokit)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2008, 3:24am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/candy-bar-in-a-gas-tank/22797/13 "2008-12-02T03:24:11Z")
Your lab experiment for this week, is to see if sugar, or caramel, will dissolve in gasoline. I honestly don’t know. If it won’t, then, the candy bar (having a specific gravity greater than gasoline) will just sink harmlessly to the bottom of the tank. Not establishing sugar’s solubility in gasoline, invalidates the Myth Busters’ test of pouring lots of sugar into a tank of gasoline fueling an engine. The engine kept running…never missing a beat; but, did the sugar dissolve?