chg
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Registered: 01/02/09
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| | 01/17/09 at 12:29 PM | Reply with quote | #2 |
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Try adding some Power Service to the fuel in the winter. The stuff I'm referring to is what comes in the white plastic bottle. They make at least 3 different types. One is an injector cleaner, the red one is for when you're totally gelled up and the white one is a conditioner to lower the gel point of the fuel and clean the injectors. Use the white one.
I learned about it in Missoula, Mt about 12 years ago. Had to attend a funeral in early January, stopped a Lolo to fuel up on the way home, was a cozy -22. The pumps had three types of diesel. #2 diesel(will not mention the prices then), 50/50 #1/#2, and #1 diesel. #2 was the cheapest and what I'd always used so I filled up with #2. Went inside to pay and thaw out. Asked the attendent what the gel point was in the #2. He had that deer in the headlight look. So I asked if it was climitized, still had that deer in the headlights look. I convinced him to call the manager who called the distributor who said "it's not climitized - gel point is 20 degrees, you should have used #1 in this temperature." You know that little voice in the back of your head that sometimes says "oh crap" - it was talking to me. Got a ride to NAPA, learned about Power Service and have been using it ever since. Had no problems drive home with a full tank of plain #2.
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