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Startron & ethanol fuel
Started using Startron bike seems to be running smoother helps stabilize ethanol fuels. StarTron enzymatic fuel treatment reduces emissions, prevents fuel oxidation, and stabilizes fuel chemistry for at least 1 year. StarTron instantly cures jelling caused by cold weather and water in ethanol blended fuels. Is anyone using this in their bike?
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Don't know..!!
if it does any good..as mentioned above I use top tier fuels and once in a while run some sea foam thru..!!
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Originally Posted by taxmyzer
Started using Startron bike seems to be running smoother helps stabilize ethanol fuels. StarTron enzymatic fuel treatment reduces emissions, prevents fuel oxidation, and stabilizes fuel chemistry for at least 1 year. StarTron instantly cures jelling caused by cold weather and water in ethanol blended fuels. Is anyone using this in their bike?
Everyone can call it snake oil if they want but it seems to work and clean up system the diesel formula is the same but twice as concentrated and only a buck more use half as much it only takes a cap full for 5 gal so the $128 a gallon doesn't hold true almost anyone that has used it is a believer the best mileage I ever saw was with it and real gas 40 mpg in a stock rs must have been riding easy that day but both spyders did the same good idea to use something at the end of season each ride could be the last for several months with the whether in the northwest anyway
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Plastic parts
Our lead technician has mentioned that some of the additives do not go well with plastic parts. Some of the gas line parts are plastic and will this additive cause any problems with these parts?
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Originally Posted by viperryder
Our lead technician has mentioned that some of the additives do not go well with plastic parts. Some of the gas line parts are plastic and will this additive cause any problems with these parts?
No if used in the recommended doses,
Actually ethanol is much as they say in Brooklyn,
Worst'er . Thats why theres a fight to stop the 15% Ethanol blend...
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Originally Posted by r1100rider
Everyone can call it snake oil if they want but it seems to work and clean up system the diesel formula is the same but twice as concentrated and only a buck more use half as much it only takes a cap full for 5 gal so the $128 a gallon doesn't hold true almost anyone that has used it is a believer the best mileage I ever saw was with it and real gas 40 mpg in a stock rs must have been riding easy that day but both spyders did the same good idea to use something at the end of season each ride could be the last for several months with the whether in the northwest anyway
Didn't mean to ruffle feathers. Just presenting the opinion of many, not necessarily my own. Most additives, fix-it, seal-it, make it better products that I've tried made no describable difference and some made things worse. But I have used a few 'Snake Oils' that I think did a very good job. Those I continue to use.
Each to his own. Use what you will and reap the benefits or suffer the consequences, whichever applies.
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Originally Posted by BajaRon
Didn't mean to ruffle feathers. Just presenting the opinion of many, not necessarily my own. Most additives, fix-it, seal-it, make it better products that I've tried made no describable difference and some made things worse. But I have used a few 'Snake Oils' that I think did a very good job. Those I continue to use.
Each to his own. Use what you will and reap the benefits or suffer the consequences, whichever applies.
I wonder if snake oil can be extracted from all those pythons we have down here. Maybe Washington can award a grant to the University Of Miami to do research. It could be known as the Snake Oil Grant.
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Use Top Tier fuel and you will not need those snake oil potions. I highly recommend Chevron / Texaco with Techron (same fuel either way). There is a difference. And I work for a different oil company..... My secondary choices are Shell and Conoco / Phillips which are also Top Tier rated.
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Originally Posted by jcthorne
Use Top Tier fuel and you will not need those snake oil potions. I highly recommend Chevron / Texaco with Techron (same fuel either way). There is a difference. And I work for a different oil company..... My secondary choices are Shell and Conoco / Phillips which are also Top Tier rated.
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Originally Posted by jcthorne
Use Top Tier fuel and you will not need those snake oil potions. I highly recommend Chevron / Texaco with Techron (same fuel either way). There is a difference. And I work for a different oil company..... My secondary choices are Shell and Conoco / Phillips which are also Top Tier rated.
Hey, I resemble that remark. ALON fuels with a Chevron made additive, at least thats what the MSDS says. All fuels still have ethanol as mandated at 10%, and looks as though the blend will increase. As far as I can tell the stuff has the same effects in all engines. Water in fuel is water in fuel and it does reduce your mileage. Many fuels with the better additives help reduce those effects, but a good treatment does wonders to keep them cleaner and gunk free.
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Originally Posted by TexAmRider
Hey, I resemble that remark. ALON fuels with a Chevron made additive, at least thats what the MSDS says. All fuels still have ethanol as mandated at 10%, and looks as though the blend will increase. As far as I can tell the stuff has the same effects in all engines. Water in fuel is water in fuel and it does reduce your mileage. Many fuels with the better additives help reduce those effects, but a good treatment does wonders to keep them cleaner and gunk free.
Not all gasoline has ethanol, and even those that do don't necessarily have 10%. That is why the pump will usually say something like 'Up to 10% Ethanol'.
The Federal government subsidies ethanol fuel with tax dollars. The greater the percentage of ethanol, the greater the subsidy. So in reality, ethanol fuel costs more than straight gasoline (even without considering that you need 10% more ethanol fuel to go the same distance). You're just paying the additional amount for the ethanol fuel through the back door.
Then there are the Federal subsidies for farmers to grow the corn in the first place. Almost 3 billion dollars in 2012 just for corn.
Ethanol fuel is much more expensive than we realize.
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Originally Posted by TexAmRider
Hey, I resemble that remark. ALON fuels with a Chevron made additive, at least thats what the MSDS says. All fuels still have ethanol as mandated at 10%, and looks as though the blend will increase. As far as I can tell the stuff has the same effects in all engines. Water in fuel is water in fuel and it does reduce your mileage. Many fuels with the better additives help reduce those effects, but a good treatment does wonders to keep them cleaner and gunk free.
I use Marine Sta-Bil in the hot summer 1/2 oz. per 5 gal. and in the winter 1/4 per 5 gal. then Sea Foam for storage and add to the first fill up in the spring. I been doing this for years in all gas run equipment and vehicles that uses 10% ethanol gas mix.
Mike
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Originally Posted by jcthorne
Use Top Tier fuel and you will not need those snake oil potions. I highly recommend Chevron / Texaco with Techron (same fuel either way). There is a difference. And I work for a different oil company..... My secondary choices are Shell and Conoco / Phillips which are also Top Tier rated.
I know very little on this topic, but I have a hearsay type of observation. This is really just a long question.
In 1978 my wife (who I divorced soon after--so she is now my ex)...well she was a truck driver--she drove gas tankers for delivery of liquid fuels to retail gas stations. She drove for a big company, which was not owned by one of the oil companies. Some days she drove with Shell painted on the truck, some days Texaco, or Chevron. (Or so she said).
She said that regardless where the gas ended up, it all came out of the same pipe at the refinery.
If she was truthful, then my question is: what is the difference between top tier gas and the other stuff? Wouldn't gas just be gas?
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Dan I think the difference is in the additives used by the various companies.
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