Fuel Additives

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(10-31-2021 )GhostHauling Wrote:  Well I apologize it came off as such, I suppose I’m just looking for some sort of consensus on this subject as I blow allot of money on additives and like you said you really don’t know if it’s doing anything all I do know is when I fuelled at loves a year ago my dang water fuel separator about plugged up with Green looking fuel so I suppose I’m just trying to find an additive that has been Tried & True obviously the claims on the bottle are crap some stupid stuff like 8 % increase in fuel economy heck everyone would use them than. With my truck being up there to 715,000 I’m trying to do everything I can to keep her going.

- I have had people over here and tested some of this kind of "miracl-grow" fuel additives stuffs in the past with them. The live fuel flow into the engine did not change in a positive direction one damn bit every time, after pouring a bunch of it into the Davco unit, and watching what difference it made.. except to watch the fuel consumption on most of them actually went UP not down.

I would bet to say that almost all of those gimmicks are nothing but some 2-cycle and other garbage, mixed with some very abrasive #1 diesel -- or god forbid .. something like methanol or other lower octane per volume type of fuel not meant for a diesel engine.

ALSO: ... as soon as you see an advertisement about how "it has superios results" in one of those scam device "lubricant friction testers"where they put a weight and rub/ scrape one bearing roller against another at high speeds, .. you know your drinking the cool-aide. Those tests are nothing much but an absolute visual scam!. Those tests show absolutely nothing whatsoever towards measuring any type of actual fuel system, engine system, or any other kind of actual component protections vs. actual engine component operations. Any slight variation in overall viscosity, or simply wax content itself, will throw that test way off from one product to another when in fact "the one that won the test" will almost always provide NO EXTRA BENEFIT (but instead, usually more harm over time) inside an engine or actual gear-box at all. You could do the test with most soaps or NLGI type lubricants (meant to actually prevent actual frictions of that type inside machinery) and find far superiors results... but you go run liquid soap or an NLGI mix in your engine and see how fast you end up on the side of the roads.

Like I said.. Don't drink the proverbial cool-aide.. its unhealthy for your engine!.