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What difference did you notice?
Diesel additives by Lake Speed Jr.
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Smoother, less combustion event noise, throttle response improved so much that I had to recalibrate my right foot.
Caveat: I drive an old school IDI mechanical diesel, more in common with antique farm equipment than a modern engine. None of this may apply to new stuff, but a small bottle is every inexpensive to try. I'm careful to measure exactly, not just eh glug glug good enough.
I didn't know that Project Farm videos were prohibited here. Why?
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I agree. The manual for my 3.0 duramax even says to use an Additive if top tier isn’t available. Since I bought it new 90k miles ago I’ve used Stanadyne, Hot Shot’s, and Archoil for a few tanks until I realized it had iron in it. Current plan is to finish up my current HS bottle and then switch to optilube and mix their XL and boost offerings.
JDM import Land Cruiser Prado with the 1KZ.
Their AG product looks appealing overall, might check that out. The Boost product you spoke of looks like good stuff aswell
2-EHN, also called EHN often called alkyl nitrates on the MSDS is the primary active cetane improver in diesel additives that claim to improve cetane (the ability to light off fast, for lack of a better description) This reduces the loud knock and does often improve efficiency.
As much as I hate to admit it, I have a handful of diesel engines from my Cat C7 powered box truck to 2ea listeroid diesel gensets for hurricane season and a really cool single cylinder Kubota EA series genset from a fire truck, and of course a rattly Chinese clone on which the ball bearings failed.
I recently ran an experiment with the Power Service diesel Kleen. It absolutely reduced knock and no joke, the CAT C7 engine runs way better after a few tanks of use.
Putting the lubricity issue aside for a second as I deal with that using Pennzoil premium plus TCW3 at 150 to 1. The content of EHN cetane booster of a product is related to the claimed treat rate. If a quart treats 80 gal, it will have enough EHN to raise cetane 5 point (for example) and if a product treats 280 gal, it likely contains more. 0.8–1.0 cetane point per 1,000 ppm EHN in the final mix.
PS diesel kleen is prob 20% EHN and Boost!! brand is highly concentrated. Opti-Lube Pure Cetane for competition is 100% EHN, and at $15 per quart, is probably the real winner here. A good treat rate would be 1 quart for 250 gal.
As much as I hate to admit it, I have a handful of diesel engines from my Cat C7 powered box truck to 2ea listeroid diesel gensets for hurricane season and a really cool single cylinder Kubota EA series genset from a fire truck, and of course a rattly Chinese clone on which the ball bearings failed.
I recently ran an experiment with the Power Service diesel Kleen. It absolutely reduced knock and no joke, the CAT C7 engine runs way better after a few tanks of use.
Putting the lubricity issue aside for a second as I deal with that using Pennzoil premium plus TCW3 at 150 to 1. The content of EHN cetane booster of a product is related to the claimed treat rate. If a quart treats 80 gal, it will have enough EHN to raise cetane 5 point (for example) and if a product treats 280 gal, it likely contains more. 0.8–1.0 cetane point per 1,000 ppm EHN in the final mix.
PS diesel kleen is prob 20% EHN and Boost!! brand is highly concentrated. Opti-Lube Pure Cetane for competition is 100% EHN, and at $15 per quart, is probably the real winner here. A good treat rate would be 1 quart for 250 gal.
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