Reply With QuoteYeh lots of people wish they knew as much as me.......the sad thing is it would be very simple.....ya just have to make the effort the read and understand....but ya need to make the effort to read and or understand the whole thing.....Originally Posted by jimbamb
now back to Reel Hard
I think most of us understand the basics of petrolium distilation and futher than simply cutting and pasting...particularly from an unspecified canadian source.
The "Manufaturers dont recomend additives" issue has been well and truly addressed concerning this matter and others.
Neither fuel or motor vehicle manufacturers are inclined to recommend additives of any type for a variety of reasons.
The main reason is that they have neither the time, money, nor the inclination to test third party additives with their products. They therefor protect themselves from liability by generally not recommending any additives of any type for use with their products.
Secondly it is a matter of confidence...if a manufacturer recomended additives that would be a tacid admission that their product was somehow inferiour.
Thus it is very rare for any fuel company to directly market additives, although some do via differently branded subsiduary companies..this way the additives are kept at arms length.
As for diesel being an "oil".......if the base product had sufficient lubricity on its own it would not require lubricity agents and additives to be mixed in , or remain at manufacture...be it sulphur or some other additive.
Note that some oil companies are marketing premium diesel products claiming improved lubricity as a selling point and a point of difference over standard fuels
Now.
worldwide there are various standards for fuel, standards that specify the minimum lubricity among other things.
Remeber your fuel companies are in the business of making money, and have a long and consistent history of cutting costs no matter how small wherever they can.
So fuel companies will make a diesel fuel as cheap as they possibly can and that means putting the fewest and cheapest additives they can and still have a salable product.
The commercial pump fuels may indeed have "Sufficient Lubricity" as judged by minimum specifications laid down, this does not mean that we can not improve the lubricity of the fuel we use by using simple and very low cost, commonly available additive.
Improvement in lubricity will have commonsence results of less wear on fuel system components.
The improvement of lubricicity and the results that flow on have been well documented and proven.
There is a huge body of information and discussion on this matter on the net from a variety of sources.....some of the better threads have been going for many years and are still active.
Some of us have done extensive reading on the matter...I my self spent many hours reading some of the better threads and following references before I put any two stroke near my diesel fuel.
If ya going to come onto any mature thread on Two stroke in diesel with ya "anti additive rhetoric", ya better have done you homework well, and preferably with some first hand evidence, because whatever it is, the argument has been well and truly canvased in detail many times.
cheers
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