Re: Fuel system cleaner?
[Re: 3ddart]
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07/11/14 12:41 AM
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Re: Fuel system cleaner?
[Re: 3ddart]
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07/11/14 01:02 AM
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See this: http://www.hemmings.com/mus/stories/2008/01/01/hmn_feature19.html"Numerous cold starts and warm-up cycles, excessive idling, short trips, and around-town motoring where the stop/start action is amplified are all ideal conditions for rapidly forming carbon deposits." "The best defense against deposit formation is a fuel that incorporates the necessary additives, designed to keep the system clean and/or to remove existing deposits." "Though carbon is going to form, you can limit its creation by using name-brand gasoline that contains a fuel system cleaner, limiting idling time and cold starts, employing high-quality oil and keeping the carburetor/fuel injection system tuned properly. Once these protocols are invoked, a semi-annual chemical cleaning will keep your engine carbon-free and in top running condition." The author recommends Chevron gasoline with Techron as the best known engine deposit dissolver. I poured about 10 ounces of Techron in my gas tank each time over about four fill ups, and I did notice a difference: the engine quit dying 3-4 times on cold startups. This is my daily driver, a fuel injected V6, not a Mopar. Now I always buy Chevron for this car. When my 340 gets running, I'll be using Chevron, and I might be cleaning out the carbon deposits as per the link above if there is accumulation.
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Re: Fuel system cleaner?
[Re: kentj340]
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07/11/14 01:23 AM
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Re: Fuel system cleaner?
[Re: 3ddart]
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07/11/14 12:38 PM
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I have read Techron is one of the better ones. Read a few times that Amsoil is supposed to be awesome. I don't have internal proof, but that's what I run through once in awhile. Might want to research it too but sounds like Techron is darn good too. We have Chevrons all over where I live so that's the only gas I run.
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Re: Fuel system cleaner?
[Re: 3ddart]
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07/11/14 01:31 PM
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No chevrons in my area, so can I get techron in a bottle?
Yes, used to be around $10 a bottle.....
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Re: Fuel system cleaner?
[Re: ademon]
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07/11/14 01:34 PM
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I think once you have valves with the amount of crud like the one in the pic, especially in our muscle cars that can run rich. No fuel system cleaner will do much.
This is true to a point, but it can't hurt..
Back in 70-72, the mechanic ( at the gas station) used to take out poor running cars on the freeway and blow the carbon out of em.. Sounds funny, but the customers would come back in and say how the car had never run so good, "what did you do to it?"......
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