E85 FAQ/sticky?
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I know you are a knowledgeable member and so is blazzin but can you elaborate? Link some articles? I am not calling bullsh!t just I have never read anything about that in all my googling. I even know italianjoe personally and have never heard anything about that even when he tuned me a couple months ago. Just cause I bought some seafoam last week can the fuel system be "cleaned" with something like that or anything off the shelf? Would there possibly be and bad effects from using something like that either by dumping it in the tank or sucking through the vacuum line?
http://www.google.com/search?q=e85+g...hrome&ie=UTF-8
seafoam won't touch it. brake clean won't touch it. there is a chemical in gasoline that dissolves it though.
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no problem
pull your injectors and look at the ends of them. the black stuff on the end of the injectors. yea..
google link
http://www.google.com/search?q=e85+g...hrome&ie=UTF-8
seafoam won't touch it. brake clean won't touch it. there is a chemical in gasoline that dissolves it though.
pull your injectors and look at the ends of them. the black stuff on the end of the injectors. yea..
google link
http://www.google.com/search?q=e85+g...hrome&ie=UTF-8
seafoam won't touch it. brake clean won't touch it. there is a chemical in gasoline that dissolves it though.
im not against anything u say area47.
i had mine out a few weeks ago and they look brand new.
now ill say my number 4 spark plug got something like that on the very tip that caused it to not fire.. that happened the other day...
10k on that set of plugs also
and ive had the head off this engine after about 8k and there was no black goo. it actualy was like a white powder kinda thing..my exhaust is clean also.
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Ive been running e85 for over two years now never cleaned my fuel system out or ran gas through it with no issues. I also live in north dakota and it runs fine in cold weather ( It was -10 this morning)
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Area47 what about the guys running a mix like E60 or E47? I am on E47 personally. I would think that some type of fuel system cleaner would work. The specific additive in gasoline just has to be found out to find out what cleaner to use. Seafoam says to mix 50/50 with gasoline when using in a fuel system cleaning system.
If someone got some gunk samples and tried out different cleaners then that would give you and answer. Has there been any service bulletins about this on flex fuel vehicles of any brand?
If someone got some gunk samples and tried out different cleaners then that would give you and answer. Has there been any service bulletins about this on flex fuel vehicles of any brand?
Ive not had any serious injector buildup either but I have noticed a little bit of film on the tips from time to time when I check them. The car hasnt seen 91 in over 3 years, but it IS good practice to run some gasiline through the system every once in a while. I just havent done it.
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