[NSW] How to make your own Fuel injection cleaner

[1985VK]

How often are you using a bottle? It's not something you need to use constantly, it's like a service item.

Outside of that just run a few tanks of 98 through.

Apparently 98 is 91 with a splash of additives in it...

 

[1985VK]

Some people say they do not believe in additives but they run 98.

 

[1985VK]

If someone has a detailed list of ingredients and a recipe to make quality injector cleaner, which a MSDS can never be as that is not it’s purpose, the little you think you may save could cost you 100 times more in engine repairs.

I seriously doubt a cup of kerosene in a 60 or 80 litre tank full of petrol is going to ruin an engine.

 

[_R_J_K_]

Apparently 98 is 91 with a splash of additives in it...

98 has additives yes, specifically cleaning agents (which is why I say run a couple of tanks of 98 through instead). True 98 should be a product of refining, if they do it like that or add other additives here I don't know but there is an octane difference between the two whichever way.

 

[1985VK]

98 has additives yes, specifically cleaning agents (which is why I say run a couple of tanks of 98 through instead). True 98 should be a product of refining, if they do it like that or add other additives here I don't know but there is an octane difference between the two whichever way.

I was told by a tanker driver its 91 and they dose it to 98. He pointed out some equipment on the tanker that supposedly injects the "booster". The octane boosters are cleaning agents because of their chemical composition. Paint thinner is a good cleaning agent. Toluene is a good cleaning agent. Xylene is good cleaning agent. They are aromatics. They are also capable of boosting octane.

 

[Fu Manchu]

I know the ingredients in many herbicides but can not replicate the concentrations of them to reproduce them at home. I’ve tried.

Do the same with a car and that’s one big gamble if it goes wrong.

 

[lmoengnr]

I know the ingredients in many herbicides but can not replicate the concentrations of them to reproduce them at home. I’ve tried.

Do the same with a car and that’s one big gamble if it goes wrong.

And some of it is really nasty **** to be playing with...

 

[Fu Manchu]

And some of it is really nasty **** to be playing with...

I know. Tell that to my other head.

 

[Immortality]

It is easier to just look up the CAS number. The first ingredient is the give away. The rest are just fractions from the cut of xylene.

Yes you could but most manufacturers don't tell you what percentages of said chemicals are used, they only give ranges or how those chemicals are mixed. There is a bit more to it than simply throwing in chemicals x,y,z and you are done.

 

[07GTS]

our hose manufacture had to get there fuel line hose remade as they found the new BP 98 was eating into it from the additives, and now u want to make your own cleaner, i can only see it having no affect at all or it will eat out your system from the inside over time and u wont realize till its too late, if ur worried about it just run E10 or u have an issue that needs fixing as the injectors shouldnt get crap to them in the first place to need that much cleaner used