[Shotimes] OT: Techron Question

[Shylo McKinsey]

It helped me out alot with the crappy gas we had in
Montana. They have the nerve to sell 85.5 Octane Crap.
Kinda like trying to drive with dirty water...

Shylo McKinsey

'91 White MTX
--- Carl Prochilo <gr8sho@prochilo.myserver.org>
wrote:
> About 15000 miles ago, my wife's 98 Windstar had the
> CEL come on. 
> The van now has 80K miles on it.  At the time it
> occurred, I brought
> it into the local dealer and their diagnosis was
> that the intake
> manifold needed to be replaced and the fuel
> injectors were very
> dirty and clogged.
> 
> I've since learned that the Windstar engines have a
> plastic intake
> and that these eventually develop leaks that
> required them to be
> replaced.  Many owners of these minivans are unhappy
> to say the
> least.  I've avoided replacing the intake for now.
> 
> Instead I decided to see if I could remedy the dirty
> injectors and
> used some technron fuel additive.  I had mentioned
> to my wife that
> Technron is considered to be a good fuel additive
> for keeping
> engines clean, having learned that from here.  Two
> days ago I needed
> to use the van and noticed that the CEL was not on. 
> I asked her how
> long this was off for and she said a long time.  I
> then asked her
> what gas she had been using and said that for a long
> time now she
> was using Chevron for 9 out of 10 times.
> 
> Is it coincidence that the CEL has gone away, or is
> this Techron
> stuff good enough to clean out clogged fuel
> injectors?
> -- 
> Cheers,
> Carl Prochilo
> 1992 Ultra Red Crimson
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