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Re: Diesel additive - yes or no?
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Posted by Hugh MacKay on December 20, 2004 at 21:26:19 from (64.228.11.64):
In Reply to: Diesel additive - yes or no? posted by Sean Bennett on December 20, 2004 at 07:52:52:
Sean: There is absolutely no reason to put anything in your fuel except Methyl Hydrate. Your fuel supplier makes a good product. Any material he adds to prevent gelling will only evaporate. That has to be added at time of fueling. Also if the diesel is parked for a week or more you will need to put more in as what was there will have evaporated. Methyl Hydrate will cost you a fraction of the so-called fuel conditioners, and they are about 98% alcohol anyhow. In fact if you go to the drug store, methyl hydrate can be bought for about $3.00 per gallon. Some druggests are a bit reluctant to sell this in volume other than than to hospitals. You may have to convince them, your diesel needs a backrub. This is the only product I ever used, and probably logged 80,000 hours on diesels, in a cold climate. I never had to rebuild a diesel under 10,000 hours, and I put 1/2 million miles on a 6.2 Chevy with one pump and injectors replacment at about 350,000 miles. Most of those products on auto parts store shelves are designed to do little more than lighten your wallet.
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