What is an injector cleaner that you recommend me to use on my car. I need to get them cleaned to see if thats causing my problems. Thanks
Good: STP Fuel Injector Cleaner (Just add and drive)
Best: Sea Foam Cleaner (Takes some spare time)
If you do the seafoam you might wanna do it at night. After I was done I took a spin around the neighborhood and it looked like I was in a james bond car or something with all that smoke coming out the tail pipe. People were giving me very strange looks like my car was about to blow up or something.
If you can remove them and can schedule for some down time, I’d send them down to RC Engineering. They are kick ass! 
I use Lucas Upper Cylinder treatment. Small white bottle with green top.
:werd: lucas products are good stuff. a bit pricey for some people but it all works good. i used the lucas synthetic oil treatment on one of my oil changes last year and it quieted a little engine noise. i’m gonna use it again when i change my oil next time. i’ve never heard of the upper cylinder treatment though. maybe cuz i’ve never looked for it, but does it work the same as most fuel injector cleaners, pour it into an almost empty tank, fill up and have a nice day, or do you need to take off the injectors?
Yeah it’s the same … just pour it in empty tank and fill up.
I use the Lucas Upper Cylinder stuff as well. I have the bottle you showed above, but I ALSO bought the LARGe bottle of it. So What I do is fill the little one up everytime I fill up on gas then dump the little bottle in the tank (treats 1 full tank of gas). I’ll do this till the whole bottle is done. Works very well 
Do you get better gas mileage with it?
I’ve used Neutra fuel stabilizer from bob is the oil guy web site. I felt it helped in that i got better engine response, gas mileage was roughly the same, maybe incremently better.
I recently ordered a product called fuel power from a vendor from the same site i listed above, seems to be getting positive remarks from guys who can be particular about what goes in there engine. We’ll see how that works after i get the product.
No matter what fuel treatment you use, BE SURE to change your fuel filter afterwards. the fuel treatment also cleans out some of the 13 year old crap that has built up in your fueltank & lines. Or atleast that’s what mechanics have always told me. And it would be a safe precaution to take if you ask me.
No I don’t think it would clean out fuel filters or lines. As far as I know the additive is activated on combustion, which is where the detergents and lubricants kick in.
As a mechanic, I have never heard of a fuel additive that requires you to replace anything. A lot of additives are activated with combustion as NFLUFX stated. And the are designed to clean varnish from injectors and the like. Read the product descriptions b4 u buy. I highly recommend BG 44k. I have seen cars with sticking valves causing cel’s use this stuff and clear up. I use it every 10-15k miles
As for crap building up in the fuel system, its unlikely. Unless of course the car has been sitting for years with bad gas in it. and you decide to put fuel and additive into it and start driving it. I’d only replace the fuel filter if you need to (during a scheduled service or if you NEED to for other reasons)
If activated upon combustion, how does it clean the injectors? The injectors never see combustion.
I would agree and say that chaning your fuel filter after running sea foam or something like that is a good idea. Not a lot of people change their fuel filters anyway, and if you just spend all that time cleaning it all, why run your gas through the same 15 year old fuel filter? If you have changed it recently then it would be alright, but if it’s more then a few years old, I’d change it.
The product bg44k according to the web site, must be brought thru a dealership, correct? Any numbers on price per bottle? Thanks for the tip.
dew wha’?!?! :hmm: i dont even think it would work like that. ikt wouldnt clean.
Any BG product is the way to go. BG makes a 3 & 4 part system that you run in stages. I have had carbon pieces come out the tailpipe on a car that I was running a BG clean on. Using the 3 part takes a bit of time and to do it correctly, a special tool that sprays the cleaner into the intake tract, usually before the throttle butterfly. Basically the same method as putting sea-foam in through the brake booster line, but just a little more precise. And BG is worth every penny of it. It’s not cheap, about $45-55 for a treatment, and thats just for the fluid.
any fuel additive that cleans injectors is usually only towards maintaining injectors, not to clean them… i use to use 44k, seafoam and all that good stuff…the BEST way is to actually use fuel injector cleaning kit…BG also has an injector flush but you need the special can to put it in(this flush does not go in the fuel tank) after using a real injector flush i could actually hear my injectors tick again