I've seen that stuff and it looks like the old "Mechanic in a Can" stuff.
Stick with a professional injector cleaning. From past experiences, the
stuff that you put down the carb/tb throat (or into a vacuum line/pcv) just
causes a bunch of smoke and only cleans a small portion of the carbon
deposits. Water is much cheaper and works the same way...without that much
smoke. Just trickle some down the TB throat and the hot steam from the
water brakes up the carbon deposits.
Same thing goes for those Crankcase "Engine Cleaners" that you pour into the
oil filler opening. If the engine has low miles, it's ok...but you can use
1 quart of ATF to do the same job (It lubricates and has high detergent
qualities that clean up the sludge). On an engine that has more than 60K
miles...DON'T DO IT. Just imagine is you happen to have a large, or
several, clumps of sludge in the crankcase and they break off. That stuff
gets stuck in the oil passages and wreaks havoc on the engine.
$0.02
- Bernd
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dakota-truck@buffnet.net
[mailto:owner-dakota-truck@buffnet.net]On Behalf Of Dester223@aol.com
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 5:21 PM
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
Subject: DML: ah ha! intake/emissions carbon cleaning
Well, my buddy works at jiffy lube and they offer this carbon cleaner. they
put a 12 oz bottle of "mystery liquid" into a container that has a regulator
on it and it attaches to the PCV valve. Anyways. you start up the truck
and
let it run REALLY rough on the stuff. It won't smoke at first, but unhook
the bottle and give it a lil gas and there is just a GOB of white and black
smoke that leaves the tailpipe. I bet you that stuff would make the workers
sick! anyways. is that the carbon cleaning everyone talks about where
something is hooked up to the truck and you get a lot of smoke out the
tailpipe? Mike?
-Dester
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