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Tried running a big fuel system cleaner through a 6.7 Powerstroke and got a nasty surprise
I had a 2015 F-250 come into my shop in Denver last month with some rough idle and figured I'd run a can of Archoil through it before digging deeper. Well after about 50 miles that thing started puking black smoke and the injectors went totally out of balance. Learned the hard way that these common rail systems don't like heavy cleaners if the injectors are already worn, turned into a $3k injector job. Anyone else had a cleaner mess up an engine worse than it fixed it?
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dakotal1621d ago
Wait, you're saying a cleaner actually made things worse? I used to think you couldn't hurt a modern diesel with fuel additives, but hearing this makes me rethink that completely.
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wadeg9221d ago
Yeah @dakotal16, too much cleaner can strip the lubricity outta the fuel and mess with injectors.
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