Comments on: Episode 15: Scuba Diver, Car Capers

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 20:03:43 +0000

Sugar will not dissolve in gasoline and it will not pass thru the fuel filter. There has been hundreds of test over the years proving this myth wrong. And unless mythbusters removed the fuel filter from their test car the sugar never reached the engine even if it was suck up from the bottem of the tank. Mythbusters needs to re-do their test otherwise their busted is “BUSTED”!

By: Iordye

Iordye — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 07:42:06 +0000

Like a yo-yo, gas prices do have thier ups and downs, don’t they? Speaking of which, dees noayne still play with those things as nostalgic memories anymore? I feel like buying one and playing with it again. Anyone remember clackers?RainbowRay??????

By: Nadia

Nadia — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:20:56 +0000

Corolla. They have decent negiens and usually run long time. It will have better gas mileage than the Jeep. Easier for a first time driver to control. Much less chance of rollover. Good luck and drive safe.

By: Caike

Caike — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:10:06 +0000

Look in your owner’s manual and use whveeatr is recommended.Most likely it will be premium unleaded and the brand really doesn’t make much difference.To use a higher octane fuel than is required is simply a waste of money.To use a lower octane than is required can cause engine damage due to detonation of the fuel air mixture in your engine.My recommendation as far as taking good care of your car is simple.Just follow the maintenance schedule in your owner’s manual and use the fluid and components recommended.Following the owner’s manual directions, you can’t go wrong and you can safely ignore any conflicting advice.

By: Dave Franklin

Dave Franklin — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 06:09:55 +0000

Most clean Hydrogen (which does not exist freely in a pure form in our atmosphere) is created using electrolysis. Electrolysis uses electricity to separate Water into Hydrogen and Oxygen using a hydrogen fuel cell. All Hydrogen Fuel cell vehicles technically run on water, although the water is typically separated into Hydrogen and Oxygen BEFORE being put into the car. (Only the Hydrogen is loaded into the car) Once Hydrogen is stored in the car, a hydrogen fuel cell is used to convert the hydrogen (and oxygen from the air) back into water again, which CREATES electricity (the reverse of the process of creating the Hydrogen). The car then EXPELS water from the exhaust pipe. The problem with actually running a car on WATER (directly) is that it would need to have enough stored electricity in it to first convert the water into hydrogen (which could then be burned with a combustion engine, or reversed through the fuel cell to propel the vehicle using electricity) This would be entirely counter-productive however, since a hydrogen fuel cell is only 25% efficient. It would take 4 times as much energy to convert the water into Hydrogen as would later be produced by converting the Hydrogen back to water using the fuel cell. You’d be better off only storing 1/4 of the electricity required to run a fuel cell in a battery back, and using it to run the car directly instead of wasting 75% of it trying to convert Water into Hydrogen, and then back into water again.

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By: Roger

Roger — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 01:52:25 +0000

I lived on a farm where sometimes our methods of fixing a car just to get it down the road were a little uncouth. I fabricated an air cleaner for a weber carburetor on a cj-7, out of sheet aluminum, a rag, and two bolts and nuts. I made a fatal error and put the nut on the inside of the air cleaner box. It vibrated loose, fell in the carb and made it’s way into the firing chamber where it proceeded to bounce around on the aluminum piston head destroying the piston and ring. I think if the piston were steel maybe it would’ve survived, but it was in there while running long enough to disintegrate the nut and destroy one of the compression rings. We fixed it though so technically it didn’t destroy the engine.

By: Deweyoxburger

Deweyoxburger — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 13:27:09 +0000

Um , no…..
I live somewhere were it is cold as hell nearly 9 months out of the year. shut off our cars as we gas up…hell no , no one shuts that heater off that long.
I assume the signs you see at gas stations saying to turn off the engine far more apply to vapors and possibility of causing a flash or fire , no matter how minimal it may be.

By: Levi

Levi — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:26:38 +0000

The water cant get sucked all the way into the cylinders by this method as that would require the gas to contract to a volume smaller than the cylinder capacity of 1-2 cylinders (on average only 1 in 4 exhaust valves will be open). While gas does contract as it cools, it doesn’t contract that much.
People driving through deep water normally lose power due to the air intake getting flooded, fortunately most air filters are designed to prevent the water getting into the cylinders which would hydralock them and damage the conrods usually.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 11:22:51 +0000

My daughter accidently put kerosene in my car,she assumed it was gas because it was stored in a gas jug.Could anybody please tell me the effects this will cause to my car,its a Grand Maequis…..please help,thanks!!!!