Injector Cleaning Fuel Additives

Bloke at BJ Diesel that did my injectors is very sceptical that any of them work at all..

I was using Nulon one and though it worked, but as he said, its the fact that you have spent the $ on it, and want it to work, in reality smoking the $20 would go further.

My mechanic hooked up a bottle of some injector cleaning additive into the fuel line and ran the engine for a while on it. A week later the injector rail came out after the timing belt broke and major work was required. Anyway, I had the injectors looked at and the verdict was the cleaning exercise had done stuff all.I may be mad but I'm not crazy
Hooroo
Ray

Yeah I would have to say I'm sceptical they do any good, but in the same breath I have used both the chemtech and one that you get from Toyota........Dazz

I used a product made by W.R Grace or Catoleum or Afloc (same company different names)

It was called Fireprep and was designed for diesel engines.

I did overdoase a bit on the first application by about 4 times( it is very concentrarted) and could not believe the difference in performance. Don't know what it was or how it worked but it did make a difference to the engine power.

This was about 10 years ago and was only available in 20 ltr drums.

mmmmm .. might try and get hold of some more............

These products are only effective against build ups of what they call algae which are organisms and dispersing to an extent water. Are they worth using, well I reckon they are however I was using Chemtech then 4Wd Monthly did a test and recommended Wynns EDT. It is initiall dearer to buy ($25) because it comes in a one litre bottle but in the long run it works out just as cheap as you only use 50 mls at a time. been using it for about a year with no problems seems to be OK. has to be ordered in at most spare parts.
Just an alternative anyway , maybe others have more experiences. Take it easy