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To: rface

Acetone as a solvent makes gasoline look like a noble gas. Acetone will dissolve stuff in minutes that gasoline could sit in for years. It's particularly good at dissolving oils, including the oil that lubricates the walls of your cylindars.


163 posted on 09/14/2005 10:45:54 AM PDT by frgoff
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To: frgoff
well, then I wonder why carberator cleaner, which contains a great deal of acetone, "will not void the warranty" on your automobile?

anyways......I have over 20k miles running the Explorer with acetone.....but I have decreased the mixture a bit. I am running 9 mL acetone / gal. gasoline. Nothing adverse to report, excet that the "check engine" light came back on about a week after I started this thread.

It is true that acetone is a very effective solvent....especially with oil, but 9 ml acetone in a gallon of gas is such a small ratio, that I have to suggest that your concerns are inflated about the ability of the acetone to remove the lubrication on the cylinders.

9 mL acetone / 3600 mL gasoline = 23 drops of acetone / 1 coke can full of gasoline

170 posted on 09/14/2005 12:49:11 PM PDT by rface ("...the most schizoid freeper I've ever seen" - New Bloomfield, Missouri)
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