Jake450s
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If your fuel filter caught it, shmutz is the LAST thing you want to add to the tank.
First- If the stuff was strong enough to "poof", take all of the deposits out of your fuel system, then it'd dissolve the plastic and rubber as well. It's not a remedy for something like this.
Second- If the stuff were strong enough to "poof" take care of all of that stuff in the filter, what's it going to do? Break it up smaller so it can move on to the fuel injectors and bake onto the tips?
Third- It's not a "deposit" anyhow, which is what all the shmutzes claim to help with. It's sand, dust, rust, dirt, dead bugs, shreaded leaves and plants, basically anything that could inadvertantly make it through a vent tube, into your fuel storage can, get stuck in the pump nozzle between fillups, and also the normal degredation of the fuel system that will happen in EVERY vehicle. (Rust and rubber chunkies). Most definatley not a predictable content that anyone could tell you what is in the "dirt", therefore anyone who suggests something to dissolve it is just pulling names off of the Walmart shelf.
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Getting "dirty" is what fuel filters do. It is why they are regularly changed. They're usually set to be changed at about right for fifteen thousand miles or 500 gallons of fuel, or somewhere close to that. (although some DO vary a good deal from that). Junk in the tank is unavoidable. Change the filter, and as it is supposed to, it will continue to keep collecting the little nasties that you will keep inadvertantly appearing in your tank.
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