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sdminus
02-07-2006, 04:42 PM
I have just made a styartling discovery.

My car is currently off the road due to a smashed LSD so i decided to take the time to strip the alch injection down.

To my horror i found loads of bits on the bottom of the tank in the car. I also found it in all my other containers. A friend who also uses meth has found the same thing in his tank too....... im also so careful to avoid contamination.

Has anybody else found this ?

What the hell is it ?

Scott

maxc
02-07-2006, 05:50 PM
I have just made a styartling discovery.

My car is currently off the road due to a smashed LSD so i decided to take the time to strip the alch injection down.

To my horror i found loads of bits on the bottom of the tank in the car. I also found it in all my other containers. A friend who also uses meth has found the same thing in his tank too....... im also so careful to avoid contamination.

Has anybody else found this ?

What the hell is it ?

ScottI'm getting alot of cars at work with comtaminated gasoline and my truck too. : :cry:

hotrod
29-11-2006, 06:05 AM
Some fuel methanol includes a scent and some lubrication additives. If stored for an extended time I have seen it form a "snow" like stuff, that floats around in the fluid.

One good reason to have a prefilter in your system prior to the nozzles.

I have never determined exactly what that crud is, but have been told the source is due to these minor additives.

If it looks like a fine powder it might be due to metal corrosion of parts of your fuel system so it would be worth while to check for that if it does not look like a soft snow like material.

Larry

JohnA
01-12-2006, 06:41 PM
The methanol tank is plastic, right?

sdminus
01-12-2006, 08:00 PM
yep

Prometeus
08-12-2006, 08:35 PM
what kind of methanol is it?