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CGarbee · 03-30-2006, 07:59

The injector shop near me refers to injector cleaner as "tune up in a can"... Every now and again, when the truck(s) seem sluggish, I dump a bottle of Power Service or Stanadyne labeled injector cleaner into the tank... Used to do the same once every six months or so with Techron in my gas powered VW until I replaced it with a newer one that required premium (which already has a higher dose of Techron or similar added to it at most places compared to low grade).

Biocide is something that I think about using in my diesel tanks, but I never seem to get around to adding it and since the stuff comming out the bottom of my filters is pretty clean, I figure that I don't need it...

I suspect that in large part it depends on the quality of the fuel in your area as to whether it really makes a big enough difference to be worth it, that and your driving and use habits. I've got a couple of buddies who work Fords and Dodges with the Powerstrokes and Cummins engines very hard (haul heavy equipement on goosenecks, etc.) and they claim to have the numbers to show that they are doing better with additives then without (using Stanadyne stuff mostly, but occaisionally RACOR brand...).