Lubricity Additive Study

Your saying you used the Lucas Fuel Stabilizer in your filters?

 

I fill my davco up with the lucas fuel treatment & injector cleaner. if you have the set up that has 2 filters, one would fill only the primary filt with lucas. starts quicker & runs better.

 

Ok thanks. Fill PRIMARY filter only with lucas. thanks

 

That means it raises cetane number but still might lubricate your injectors worse and wear them out earlier. Lucas is just a good marketing man, his products are crap.

Use 2 stroke oil for lubrication if the fuel you buy is crap.

 

2 stroke oil at a 200:1 ratio has been found (via a controlled study) to reduce wear in the upper cylinders areas

 

Heaveyhaulerss, If you are running a Davco then you can run what ever you want in the fuel system that is a great set-up.
The only additives I ever use in my engines is before I change my oil I do add a quantity of ATF, usually about 39 miles before I change it.
Oil additives, I do not like they seem to me to end up as a jelly mass sticking to the sides and low flow areas of an engine. To each their own!

 

Yeah I say to each his own experience. as far as crappy fuel, well being as I have the davco, I can see the fuel level. there have been times where there was water or other contaminats in fuel that I was able to see due to the davco. the problem is, when your a o.t.r. driver & stop at different fuel stops. you dont know where or when you might get crappy fuel. so it's not like I choose to go to crappy fuel stops & thats why I need additives. one local independant truck stop where I bought fuel for 2-3 years one day got so much water that if filled my davoco up in 200 miles, where usually it last 25,000 give or take. when my mechanic took apart my engine he asked about my driving, maintenence habits. cause the engine looked too good to have over 1.3 mil miles. I add 1 or 2 gal lucas at oil change. like I said earlier, weather because of or despite the additive, my meachanic told me to just keep doing what I had been doing over the last 11 years. as far as the lucas fuel treatment. just try it & post your experience here. I have never had negative results. always positive. every single time. now with ther oil stabilizer, I cannot verify the benefits, though I cannot deny them. I just know I went over 1.3 mi miles using it. I know some say if there was any benefits to any of these snake oil products the mfr would have them incorporated into their system. I say I dont trust all these O.E.M. when all these new truck you can read about right here are in the shop & no one, not even the mfr can diagnos them much less fix them.

 

At what temperature outside do you want to start putting in the fuel additives?

Thanks!

 

I don't use fuel additives... more 'secret formulas' than i care to deal with.

I like the fact that they used a crap fuel for the test... something you can't even buy at a truckstop!

 

Guess that would depend on your comfort level and the normal places you buy fuel. I stay primarily in the upper midwest all year. Fuel here is generally fine without additives down to single digit temps. But that varies a little with the fuel stops. I will start putting in an anti gel when I know the nightime temps are going down to single digits and I will be shutting the truck off. ULSD is a little more unpredictable when it comes to temperature. I never had a gell up in over 25 years until ULSD showed up. Now I am a little more diligent about putting in some anti-gel when the temps start to get down. When the truck is running, most of the engines put pretty warm fuel back to the tanks, so putting in an additive is not critical until temps really drop into minus territory. But if you shut down for more than just a few hours, an anti-gel is good insurance.