Recent content by FDMaguire

By the way, I still have no sense if my toluene/naphtha mix as 50/50 would have helped anymore than just going straight with Xylene which was much more readily available in my local area. For people reading in the future, the entire reason I got down the toluene/napththa path was based on the...

Having done a bit of a deep dive here on emission codes in working my own problem, I see a subset of people online making all these declarative comments about what does and does not work which I think is a bit foolish. The fact is there are a lot of variables at play and I think the proverbial...

In terms of an update of how this worked out for me, the top line is that I got all the emission code engine light issues to go away long enough that I was able to get through inspection on a car that was well past due which was making it where we were not driving the car. But, there are a lot...

You bet. Will do.

@chemman This is exactly what I was hoping to learn by posting over here. Again, thank you so much. Also appreciate learning a more specific understanding of the three different xylene isomers. From what you have shared with me, I think I would go with Toluene and Xylene in a 50/50 mix next...

@chemman Thank you so much!!! So, if you will allow me, where would naphtha fit into this mix? I arrived at the toluene and naphtha combination by going on what others posted was the original product used by Scotty Kilmer in terms of what he was putting into the gas tank as 'lacquer thinner'...

@SHOZ If I was going for direct cleaning of the catalytic converter, I would not go the toluene/naphtha route or consider the toluene/xylene route either. I am only looking at this for a formulation to go into the gas tank itself and then through the combustion process.

@joegreen In researching a bunch, what you would put in the fuel tank as an additive to potentially impact the catalytic converters for passing inspecition is seen by many as very different of what you would put as a mixture formulation to directly feed into the catalytic converter. Directly...

@chemman. Not at all challenging your statement of "xylene would be best for cleaning". Just asking your 'why' here that you say it would be best for cleaning. Trying to understand this from a chemistry perspective.

Let me first answer some of these postings to just point out that a ton of people have had success with putting different types of additives into the fuel tank of their vehicle to impact passing inspection. No one is saying it is a 100% guaranteed in the least but a ton of people have had...

I read this thread here: https://bobistheoilguy.com/forums/threads/chemistry-of-catalytic-converter-cleaning.354488 I was tempted to post my question on this thread. But, it was not a perfect fit to the original purpose of that forum thread. I was also a bit cautious to add to a thread that...