Anyone Use Power Service Cetane Boost
I have read on a blog or two that using Power Service Cetane Boost helps diesel trucks run better. Anyone here use it? Does it work like they claim? Is it worth using on a 2012 F250 or just on olde...
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One more question to the person who had his fuel jell up.
In areas with cold weather (well below freezing in winter) - Sometimes a station (especially an in-town station that caters mostly to non-semi vehicles) will keep selling straight #2 longer then they should as winter approaches. Straight #2 will start to jell at about 20 degrees if I remember. At some point the station starts treating it with chemicals to lower the jell point as they get further into the winter season. The other way to improve the jell point of #2 is to add #1. My Father-in-law was a trucker and told me that cutting with #1 is the best way to prevent jelling problems. And based on my experiences with jelled fuel, I would agree. He also said that stations keep adjusting the mix as they get further into winter. I'm guessing that up in the really cold latitudes they run straight #1 in Jan/Feb.
When I lived up north I used to treat my fuel but I was never real confidant that it would work at below zero temps. I always tried to buy fuel from a station that mixed in some #1.
The disadvantage to #1 is that it does not lubricate as well as #2.
So I wonder if somehow you could have got caught up in a situation where it got cold and the fuel wasn't treated for the temps. And then you finally got a load of treated fuel which solved the problem.
Tim
In areas with cold weather (well below freezing in winter) - Sometimes a station (especially an in-town station that caters mostly to non-semi vehicles) will keep selling straight #2 longer then they should as winter approaches. Straight #2 will start to jell at about 20 degrees if I remember. At some point the station starts treating it with chemicals to lower the jell point as they get further into the winter season. The other way to improve the jell point of #2 is to add #1. My Father-in-law was a trucker and told me that cutting with #1 is the best way to prevent jelling problems. And based on my experiences with jelled fuel, I would agree. He also said that stations keep adjusting the mix as they get further into winter. I'm guessing that up in the really cold latitudes they run straight #1 in Jan/Feb.
When I lived up north I used to treat my fuel but I was never real confidant that it would work at below zero temps. I always tried to buy fuel from a station that mixed in some #1.
The disadvantage to #1 is that it does not lubricate as well as #2.
So I wonder if somehow you could have got caught up in a situation where it got cold and the fuel wasn't treated for the temps. And then you finally got a load of treated fuel which solved the problem.
Tim
