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Old 11-21-2012, 05:25 PM
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Originally Posted by intrepidagent
This is something that I should have done about a year ago. I have a 85.5 NA with approx 80K miles. I drove the tank down to near empty and when I filled it up I thought it would be a good opportunity to throw in a bottle of Chevron FI Cleaner. Big mistake. After about 1 hour of driving the engine was coughing, sputtering and felt like it was running on 2 or 3 cylinders at times. Replaced the fuel filter. No difference. Replaced the fuel pump and the car ran flawlessly. Apparently I stirred up the ancient evil demons in the tank who then took vengence on the aformentioned components. OOPS!
Yeah for injector or fuel system cleaner to work properly you need to use it from new and thereafter every few thousand miles. After the 25-30+ years of buildup without any system cleaner ran through it, one Seafoam later and you'll clog everything down stream of the tank itself with that 25-30+ years of goo.



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