For increased gas mileage, perhaps try nail polish remover. Acetone

The Student Operated Press ^ | March 10, 2006 | Jennifer Gibson

[rface]

I've tried mothballs - and they didn't work. I've tried acetone - and it works.

I know there are going to be several "acetone will eat away the plastic and rubber in your fuel system"....comments - but I haven't observed any such event in over a year since I started using acetone.

I continue to use acetone in every vehicle I operate....about 2.5 - 3 oz acetone/10 gal gasoline.

An earlier FReeper thread:
Adding Acetone to Gasoline Update: Myth or Miracle and the “Check Engine” light.

[the invisib1e hand]

One of my first jobs was with a solvent recycling operation. The boss used to have me put a gallon (maybe less, can't recall) of toluol in the tank of his big Ford wagon when he was taking the family away for the weekend...

[rface]

SmartGas link.......I have to ignore the opening comment about "unlimited corporate GREED".....

[Sunnyvale CA Eng.]

Do you have any hard data on mileage improvement?

[Dinsdale]

You used mothballs in your gas?

I hope you only used it for one tank. It raises the fuels effective octaine rather a lot. But causes detonation which will trash your motor in short order.

[rface]

toluol - what's that?

Toxic by inhalation, ingestion or by absorption through skin. Serious irritant.

[GSlob]

There are mothballs and mothballs - one needs to check what is there. Naphthalene mothballs could turn 87 [or even lower grade] gasoline into 93 octane grade.

[al baby]

Do you know wht moth balls smell like

[rface]

I didn't use mothballs.....I was kidding about that - but I am not kidding about my acetone. I use it everytime I buy gasoline....

[Publius6961]

It raises the fuels effective octaine rather a lot. But causes detonation which will trash your motor in short order.

Wouldn't that be dependent on the amount?

[freeangel]

Geez, I just had a vision of a blond buying forty little bottles of fingernail polish remover and trying to pour it into her gas tank.

[rface]

the data I use is found in the link provided in response #1 to this thread.

[GSlob]

Toluene [aka toluol] is not that much of a deal. It is benzene which is carcinogenic. Besides, your gasoline already contains a bit of those lower aromatics, toluene included.

[rface]

I buy a gallon of acetone at Wal~Mart for $11.00 and it lasts a long time. I use ~90mL for every 10 gal. gasoline, and there's about 4000 mL in a gallon

[Yorlik803]

No//I couldnt get their little legs apart...lolololol

[Dinsdale]

My understanding is that one mothball is very bad for your motor.

Put enough in to make it run like a bat out of hell and your engine will be done before the tank is.

Of course the last person I know that did this did it before modern knock sensors. Perhaps modern engines will retard their spark automagically and save themselves.

[the invisib1e hand]

toluol - what's that?

One of the chemical bogeyman of industry.

[DuncanWaring]

It raises the fuels effective octaine rather a lot. But causes detonation ...

I thought raising the octane suppressed detonation.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

“Last year it was mothballs in the gas,..."

Maybe it's the climate; but, here in Canada we don't have much of a problem with moths in the gas tank.




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[mkjessup]

Do you know wht moth balls smell like

Ask Bawney Fwank, he's probably checked it out at some point.