Run Rite Products

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i just went to a training class for my work on selling a Run Rite Fuel System Cleaning serivce thing. they used my car (1998 Ford Mustang GT 4.6L) as a test car. theres an oil additive, a gas additive, a TB cleaner and a Induction Cleaner that they run through a vacuum port. my car idled a little better and was fine on the 125mile drive home. then yesterday my car started running really bad, misfiring and tossing a random misfire code. i pulled the plugs and they had red electrodes and all the grounds were white/light grey. the plugs are Autolite 764 coppers and only had about 5k miles on them. i run normal CA 91 octane from Shell, Chevron, and Mobil. i used VP racing 91 octane for 1 tank when i ran out of fuel on track at Buttonwillow Raceway. ive checked the plugs before and they have never had the red electrode.

is this something common with these products, i know plugs will turn red with bad additives. i just dont feel comfortable selling these to a customer when its done this to my car.

another thing that bothered me was the TB cleaner they used on my Ford TB that says to not clean. they say its for safe, but ive talked to engineers at SVT and they say that theyve never seen a ford safe TB cleaner.
 
What type of plug(copper/platinum/irridium?) did the car come with? stock gap?
What gap did you use on those copper plugs?
 
the car came with platnium plugs. the stock gap is .054 and thats what these plugs were gapped at. i checked the plugs after using the VP racing gas and they had no red deposits on them. its common with teh 4.6 owners to switch to copper plugs, the motors tend to run better with the coppers.
 
not sure what was in the solution. all they told us was that its based on Techron. funny thing is that ive used Chevron gas a lot, and have used the Techron additive, and never had this problem.
 
can you say SNAKE oil???
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thats what i figured it is.

what funny was they were telling the techs that they can replace the PCV valve if its bad. what they forgot to tell the techs is that in CA you have to have a smog license to do that, or else the state BAR can fine the shop $10,000 per occurance. i love watching a disaster beginning to happen.
 
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