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Fuel Injector Cleaner...How often?

Old Feb 16, 2010 | 10:17 AM
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Default Fuel Injector Cleaner...How often?

I use chevron gas and use injector cleaner every oil change.

Am I over doing it?
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Old Feb 16, 2010 | 09:29 PM
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i like to use some lucas oil fuel injector cleaner every 3 oil changes or about 3 times a year. i put it like a 1000 miles before im about to get an oil change though cause the fuel injector cleaner mixes with the oil and degrades the lubricating properties.
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Old Feb 17, 2010 | 01:22 AM
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I run a can of Seafoam into my fuel tank once a year or so.
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Old Mar 29, 2011 | 04:00 AM
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"fuel injector cleaner mixes with the oil "



i'd bloody well hope not - unless your accent is a 2 stroke
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Old Mar 29, 2011 | 12:19 PM
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^ in the same way gas mixes with the oil . . .past the rings.
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Old Mar 29, 2011 | 10:07 PM
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fair call, but i would say it is in such minimal amounts that it doesn't amount to anything. i mean, 400ml of cleaner in a 40 litre tank is a low enough concentration. if you then consider the amount of gas that would make it past the rings... unless your accent is a few million years old and throwing blue smoke out of the exhaust, i doubt this would be a problem.
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