Texasmark
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- Joined
- Apr 24, 2012
- Messages
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- Location
- N. Texas
- Tractor
- Ford: '88 3910 Series II, '80 3600, '65 3000; '07 6530C Branson with FEL, 2020 LS MT225S. Case-IH 395 and 895 with cab. All Diesels
"They" added diesel to the label on the can and in green letters vs the black for everything else not too many years ago considering the length of time the product has been on the market....must be a reason. I use it in my iboats equipment and swear by it. I agree with you on looking at the contents and all that but if it didn't work it would be off the market and it just keeps getting bigger. I had never heard/saw/paid attention to it on the shelf at the stores until the big guns on the iboats forum kept talking about todays crappy fuel and this and that. It kept showing up in postings so I thought I'd try it. The rest is history.
I read an article on the origin of it years ago and forgot most of it other than something about Olie Evinrude or OMC had some gas problems up in MI or WI or somewhere up there and somehow this was created as a cure all. The oil was added so that it could be squirted directly into the venturi of a carb on a 2 stroke engine and the engine run off it for determining fuel vs spark problems. The alcohol was supposed to absorb "small" amounts of water in the fuel that surely is a problem up there in the winter and the real workhorse is the naptha, a solvent, to get rid of caked up carbon back when lead was added to gas as a cheap octane booster.....all as I recollect....don't quote me.
I know on 2 stroke loopers, keeping those 2 wedge shaped rings loose makes or breaks compression numbers. My primary diesel snake oil is Power Services in the grey bottle. I only used it twice in my tractors, once in my 2000 diesel both fuel and oil and it cleaned up smoking on that tractor and removing ｼ" of sludge in the bottom of the 1988 3910 I bought last year with 900 hours....sat so much that a lot of the sludge that initially was in suspension fell out.....it happens if oil sits dormant for a long time. I don't know what my fuel situation would be without keeping it in my diesel tank. So all I can attest to is with it I just don't have fuel problems with anything. Not about to change.
