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Posted by MN Scott on April 16, 2007 at 20:33:00 from (206.9.216.36):
In Reply to: diesel fuel posted by plowboy1 on April 15, 2007 at 18:41:41:
If you buy good quaility clean diesel from a honest dealer you do not need an additive in any diesel engine. Your just trowing good money away. The only time you may need an additive is if you have water in your fuel tank and have alge growing, then use an algeicide. Same thing in the winter if you run the proper blend you do not need an additive. Several years ago the local CIH dealer sold dad a bottle of power service in the winter. The dealer said use this and you don't need to blend fuel. I told dad he had wasted the money as it would not work. Well a few days later it was -10 and he was going to dump it in the loader tractor. The stuff would not even pour out of the bottle! So save yourself the problems you might create from dumping snake oil in the fuel system and put the two cycle oil in your chainsaw and buy quaility fuel and don't worry about it.
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