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  • one, two, three, four!

  • Rev up your engines!

  • It's time for the Scotty Kilmer Channel

  • today I'm going to show you how modern fuel injection cleaning systems work, now

  • I've been working on cars for the last 46 years, so I've seen a lot of changes

  • in both the cars and the gasoline that goes in them, so needless to say, cleaners

  • at work 45 years ago, aren't going to work that good today for two main reasons, first

  • modern gasoline has up to 10% ethanol in it,

  • and second, many modern cars like this Volkswagen, have gasoline direct

  • injection systems, that often lead to carbon buildup inside the engine, now if

  • you're using an old-fashioned additive like seafoam, it doesn't have the

  • additives that are going to work with alcohol and with gasoline direct

  • injection systems all that well, it's called seafoam for a reason, that was

  • originally used for two stroke outboard motor engines, but today even most

  • outboard motor engines are four-stroke engines, so if you want to keep your

  • engine and fuel system clean, you need an additive that can work with four-stroke

  • motors, and with gasoline it has ethanol in it, now the naphtha and the pale oil

  • that's inside the seafoam works great on two-stroke motors, they need oil in the

  • gas anyways to make them run, but if you're driving a modern car, especially

  • if it has gasoline direct injection, and the fuel has a lot of ethanol in it, you

  • need an additive that's made just for that, a modern car with modern gas, not an

  • old motorboat engine, now the main cleaning ingredient in gumout is polyetheramine,

  • or PEA, it's a nitrogen based cleaner, where do you see those signs at

  • the Shell gas station that's a nitrogen powe,r it's the same stuff that they're

  • using, it will clean the inside of your engine really well especially if you

  • have a gasoline direct injection, where the carbon buildup often occurs if you

  • don't have enough cleaner, and it also has corrosion inhibitors, so when you

  • pour it in a gas tank, it keeps the ethanol and the gasoline from

  • corroding your system, now I've had a lot of complaints from my own customers

  • saying they hate that gasoline that has ethanol, because it makes their cars run

  • poorly, it can actually corrode stuff, but if you have anti corrosion inhibitors in it,

  • it won't hurt your car, now I know some people are going say, hey why

  • should I listen to that guy what does he know what he's talking about, well

  • actually I don't believe what most people tell me either,

  • so you can do what I do, use the stuff and test it, I use my borescope to look

  • inside the engines once you take a spark plug out, to see if the stuff's actually

  • cleaning, you don't have to buy real expensive, one you can get them for 80 or

  • 90 bucks nowadays, they're all made in China, just do like I did, take out a

  • spark plug, just put it in a hole and look inside before you use the cleaner,

  • then run two or three tanks full full of gas with a can of this stuff in,

  • and then check it out with a borescope again to see if it's clean, here's a

  • before a picture with the piston all clogged up with carbon, and here's the

  • later picture, where you can see it's much cleaner, so if you're like me and

  • you want your car to last forever, you might try some of this gumout

  • multi-system cleaner, and remember if you have any car questions just visit the Scotty

  • Kilmer channel

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