I bought a big syringe looking thing at Walmart used for mixing fuels in the automotive section for a couple bucks. Attach the clear tube to the end and insert into the can and draw in two ounces of acetone. When full pull out slowly as some acetone will want to drip out of the tube. Hold upright until your ready to deposit it to your gas tank. Good Luck!
Acetone Fuel Additive Update
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Thanks guys. I will update my own report of Acetone. If there's an improvement it's not much and then again it's only been what??....2 tank fulls, I'll give it some time and a few more tankfulls.
BlazerLT, I'm not robbing your thread by any means. I am simply stating my own experience with it, hope you don't mind? AR
BlazerLT, I'm not robbing your thread by any means. I am simply stating my own experience with it, hope you don't mind? AR
Somebody has mentioned this article before.
I just can't get over the very first 3 sentences, which sound awfully strange to me, to say the least.
"This article about acetone (CH3COCH3) probably draws conclusions that Big Oil and the American Car Manufacturers and others do NOT want you to know.
They suffer from unlimited corporate GREED.
They want bad mileage. The worse, the better as far as they are concerned."
Say WHAT???
I just can't get over the very first 3 sentences, which sound awfully strange to me, to say the least.
"This article about acetone (CH3COCH3) probably draws conclusions that Big Oil and the American Car Manufacturers and others do NOT want you to know.
They suffer from unlimited corporate GREED.
They want bad mileage. The worse, the better as far as they are concerned."
Say WHAT???
That article was interesting, however, the guy also says things like this, and hope his judgment is bettr than this about acetone:
".... My Neon is the best car I have ever owned for MPG, high speed handling and comfort..."
Anyway, I'm going to try acetone in my 97 Tbird. It has 108k miles right now, and the mileage is not great at present..I'll see/report what happens.
".... My Neon is the best car I have ever owned for MPG, high speed handling and comfort..."
Anyway, I'm going to try acetone in my 97 Tbird. It has 108k miles right now, and the mileage is not great at present..I'll see/report what happens.
just curious what you generally get for mileage 97Tbird..? which engine you have in that also..?
p.s. expect the head gasket(s) to go before too long. they seem pretty consistant from my inquiries. 110K to 135K is as high as i've seen before one went on the 3.8. if yours is 3.8 start gatherin tools and get a couple gaskets and such ...
44H
p.s. expect the head gasket(s) to go before too long. they seem pretty consistant from my inquiries. 110K to 135K is as high as i've seen before one went on the 3.8. if yours is 3.8 start gatherin tools and get a couple gaskets and such ...
44H
luckily I have the 4.6L, which is not prone to head gasket prob's.
The 4.6L is pretty solid, and I've personally never heard of a HG going in a 4.6 Tbird. I hope mine doesn't either
Generally MPG was about 26-27 highway, which has worsened to about 23 or so now. (I never kept track of city driving).
The 4.6L is pretty solid, and I've personally never heard of a HG going in a 4.6 Tbird. I hope mine doesn't either
Generally MPG was about 26-27 highway, which has worsened to about 23 or so now. (I never kept track of city driving).
I've only tried 1 tank so far, but there was no change. I used the good stuff from our lab, not just nail polish or paint remover. The ONLY thing so far that I've tried in this Subaru that genuinely increases mileage (over a ~3,000-mile test) is FPC-1. If it wasn't so messy we'd have a case already. I'll try the acetone again to be certain.
This is a good link to information and real world tests on acetone in Gas and Diesel engines;
Acetone
If you are not tired of the subject of using acetone in your fuel then go to this link:
More on Acetone in fuel
Acetone
If you are not tired of the subject of using acetone in your fuel then go to this link:
More on Acetone in fuel
Apologies, I mis-spoke slightly in my last post. When using the Stabil bottle, you loosen only the cap on the small chamber, while leaving the large chamber cap tight. If you loosen both caps, the liquid won't move from one chamber to the other.
get a measuring cup from the paint aisle at the hardware store. they are made out of the right materials for handling acetone and any other chemicals you wish to dump in your engine. they cost about $.30.
It just went into the tank at a little over 2oz./10 gallons--HPLC grade Acetone in a 3.9L V6 Dodge Dakota--I make the same drive everyday at the same speed set on my cruise. I will post results.
I read the label on a bottle of B12 Chemtool and one of the first ingredients was acetone,...along with toluene and Methyl Ethyl Ketone.
Yes, all additive components in pure form can harm things over time, but people need to realise that just because they are solvents doesn't mean they dissolve things at 0.3% concentration.
People complain that acetone will hurt something when the 87 octance gas they use everyday is 15% toluene and xylene combined which are paint thinners in their own right. The only thing is that they have a octance rating over 120-150.
OK, so I'm a bit of a tribology newbie, so I beg pardon if I wax and mumble in some unclear and ambiguous terms, but I do have a question that's been sticking at the back of my head over this entire acetone debate.
If I read some of these posts right, acetone is used in some amounts in some fuel system cleaners. I'm beginning to wonder if some of the positive gains in mileage people are seeing are due more to having a cleaner engine from acetone as a detergent rather than any particular interaction between the acetone and the gasoline. I figure most of us on here do our best to keep our engines as clean as possible already (FP60 + LC, here), but I just have to wonder about the general public. It'd be a heck of a lot of work, but I'd be interested in seeing the maintenance habits from user to user versus the gains achieved in mileage.
Don't mean to make an additional fire, but I guess I would be, wouldn't I?
If I read some of these posts right, acetone is used in some amounts in some fuel system cleaners. I'm beginning to wonder if some of the positive gains in mileage people are seeing are due more to having a cleaner engine from acetone as a detergent rather than any particular interaction between the acetone and the gasoline. I figure most of us on here do our best to keep our engines as clean as possible already (FP60 + LC, here), but I just have to wonder about the general public. It'd be a heck of a lot of work, but I'd be interested in seeing the maintenance habits from user to user versus the gains achieved in mileage.
Don't mean to make an additional fire, but I guess I would be, wouldn't I?
Based on the theory of how acetone works it seems that common deicers for gas, which have been used for a long time, would work the same as they seem to be either methanol or isopropanol. One doesn't usually hear about better mileage in the winter though.
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