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All about acetone in fuel
It appears that no one has remembered any thing about chemistry!
Remember that Acetone will partly dissolve Silicon, and given enough time in contact it will eventulally dissolve enough of the fuel line componets that on most older American made autos from about 1990 thru current date, as well as some imports, the vehicle will start to have fuel line problems. In some cases where the vehicle has a manual fuel pump instead of fuel injection, the Acetone will actually dissolve the Silicon diaphram of the fuel pump. Auto makers changed over from rubber fuel system parts to Silicon to avoid this very problem with the early "Gasohol", (Ethonol), fuels. The alcohol was dissolving the rubber fuel system componets, and thats why they switched to fuel systems made with Silicon componets.
To put it bluntly, using Acetone like I did in the past, is going to leave you stranded at a very inconveient time and place! By the way, I never saw any MPG increase what so ever. It was used in a 1996 Ford F150, and it was cheaper to trade it in than to fix it!
I have had a stroke, and my typing, spelling, and grammar are not very good. So go easy on me when criticing my comments. Thank you.
posted by gadgetdls September 7, 2008 at 9:59 PM