We just cleaned a minibike fuel system by adding a ounce of marvel mistery oil and about the same amount of "sea foam" to the fuel tank with a half gal. of gas. we than ran the motor for about 15 minutes and the system cleaned right up. hope this helps. bixxl
Yes, the fuel additives work by helping clean out the deposits left by carbon and ethanol.
Mineral spirits should do the trick.
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A little kerosene won't hurt anything, but there are much better fuel system cleaners available at your local auto parts store. Agreed, kerosene will do little to clean the system. Seafoam and Techron are both excellent fuel system cleaners.
The fuel pump is located inside your gas tank. You would need to drop your gas tank and then remove the fuel pump. If you need to change the fuel pump, be sure to clean out you gas tank for and deposits or debris.
All gasoline and diesel engines produce combustion by-products and fuel degradation products that form deposits in the fuel and air metering devices of your vehicle. These are the throttle body, fuel injectors, valves and ports and also in the combustion chambers. These deposits are various forms of carbon mixed with hydrocarbons (fuel and oil types). To "decarbon" the fuel injection system is to use solvent or detergents to remove these deposits and restore proper flow pattern (fogging of fuel) and flow volume. Each cylinder needs to receive the same flow of fuel and air for proper combustion from each cylinder. Thus, full intake system cleaning is important as well. Mark Hischier - Director of Technology, Wynn's
Typically that is caused by a little buildup of deposits around the inside of the injector tips. Sometimes you can put a can of injector cleaner through the system and clean out the deposits. Use the injector cleaner as described on the can. It may take a couple applications to clean the injectors. Sometimes that doesn't work and you'll need to replace the faulty injectors. Good luck.
There is a product called Seafoam that can clean out the fuel system. If you don't want to do that you can take it to a shop and have them do it.
They are additives that you put in your gas tank when it is full to clean your fuel system or improve the octane rating of the fuel.
Seafoam products are pretty good.
Buy some fuel system cleaner from your parts store.
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