Fuel Additives
 

What's up guys?! I have some questions about fuel additives. I was wondering which one is the best to use first of all and also how often should they be used? Are they really that beneficial? Thanks for the time guys.

I use stanadyne's performace formula. I would trust them first since they specialize in fuel injection.

Performance Formula - Stanadyne

Here take a look at this. Lubricity Additive Study Results - Diesel Place : Chevrolet and GMC Diesel Truck Forums The point of it is to Lube the fuel. Ultra low sulfur is like sand paper running through your injectors and IP. The use of a additive helps with getting the lube back in the fuel. Also cleans the injectors and raises combustion. I run some with every tank! Im trying to find bio fuel but till then I use Opti-Lube XPD. Good Luck :c:

Lucas additives get my vote.... Always had good results with them.

thats all i put in mine is lucas and 2 stroke oil

howles fuel additive works good, also marvel mystery oil

One thing to note about that "study" is that the baseline fuel used was un-additized ULSD...you don't get un-additized ULSD at the pump. The numbers are deceiving if you are solely basing the "dryness" of the fuel on that study. It would have been better if they had done a test on a single "from the pump" sample of ULSD.

The real answer is this: additives are not necessary if you run good fuel from a reputable source.

There are also some that believe running too much additive can actually cause more damage than good.

Reputable sources come and go. I don't trust what comes out of the pump - any pump.

And no additive is going to protect from bad fuel...

Who or what guarantees your "additized" fuel? Got a link or reference cite?

(And OBTW FYI, just because the EPA says they gotta do it doesn't necessarily make it so.)

That's an ASTM standard...

Have a nice day...I'm not getting into this any further since you obviously just want to argue for the sake of arguing.

If I had a nickle for every time I ran into a substandard product... :w2:

Ultra-low-sulfur diesel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Costs more, does less and lubricity adds are not put in until the last mile because of FAA pipeline restrictions. Yeah, like I'm going to trust Joe Blo at the tank farm down in Commerce City that is probably about to go bankrupt to make sure the fuel is right before they pump it into the tanker truck on it's way to my local fill-er-up. :rolleyes2:
I normally like to argue for the sake of getting the facts straight, but I'm an equal-opportunity arguer! :tttt:

Where I live it gets cold in winter and dont like gelled fuel. I use howes if it will be below 15 degrees. Have had no problems gell or otherwise. JMO