Diamondpilot
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You can put all the additives you want in a fuel but by far the best additive for cleaning is ethanol.
My uncle runs/owns 2 Shell Gas Stations in Ohio. He resisted ethanol as long as he could because he knows all the ill side effects. He was forced into it by corporate. As you know Shell has had products like V-Power and so on they advertised for years as additives. He changed his fuel filters on his pumps once a month. When they got the first tank of ethanol blended fuel he changed his filters 3 times in the first 24 hours. Then changed them 4 or so more times in the following 7 days, then once more mid month, then finally got back to a once a month change. His stations are very very high volume stations, something like 10,000 gallons per station per day so his tanks were full of fresh clean fuel to start with, within reason.
He could tell the filters were clogging due to the pumps slowing way down.
Chris
My uncle runs/owns 2 Shell Gas Stations in Ohio. He resisted ethanol as long as he could because he knows all the ill side effects. He was forced into it by corporate. As you know Shell has had products like V-Power and so on they advertised for years as additives. He changed his fuel filters on his pumps once a month. When they got the first tank of ethanol blended fuel he changed his filters 3 times in the first 24 hours. Then changed them 4 or so more times in the following 7 days, then once more mid month, then finally got back to a once a month change. His stations are very very high volume stations, something like 10,000 gallons per station per day so his tanks were full of fresh clean fuel to start with, within reason.
He could tell the filters were clogging due to the pumps slowing way down.
Chris
Mike
