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Gumout or equivalent carb cleaner fuel additive? (Read 381 times)
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Reduced backfiring - fuel additive or weather chan
Reply #30 -
12/15/12 at 11:44:33
I'm on my third tank of gas with the STP carb/injector cleaner in it, and I just rode for an hour or so. The idle is still smoother, and the backfiring, today, was much less than in previous rides on the same route. The air is cooler (40F) and drier (40% humidity) than previous rides. If I understand it correctly, these changes should have made it
more
likely to backfire, correct?
If that's true, then I can say that the fuel additive has apparently improved the performance of this particular bike, maybe because some of the carb orifices were partly clogged in a way that fuel alone wasn't dissolving.
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Re: Gumout or equivalent carb cleaner fuel additiv
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01/19/13 at 12:07:34
A final report on using fuel additives, for those of us reluctant to take the carb apart and clean it. I've run four or five tankfuls of fuel with additive through the bike, and it runs much smoother and backfiring is down to one or two loud pops every hour-long ride. This compares to about a dozen loud pops for the same route before I started using fuel additives.
The additives that seem to have made the most difference are Seafoam and STP Complete Fuel System Cleaner (which I suspect is similar to Techron).
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01/19/13 at 13:48:30
+1 on Sea Foam it cleans and lubes your carb and lubes you petcock,carb slide.All snowmobilers and motorcyclists and farmers around here use it.
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Re: Gumout or equivalent carb cleaner fuel additiv
Reply #33 -
01/19/13 at 15:29:46
A few years ago I got a tank of bad gas, the bike ran crappy and I didn't
realize what had happened until I spoke with the local Suzuki mechanic.
He recommended I drain the tank and mix some fresh gas with BG44K.
This cleared things up in a few hours, I added the rest of the stuff to the
tank of my old Corolla.
No one here has mentioned BG44K, it's $23 for a small can but really works well to clean-up a fouled fuel system.
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