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I know that 99.9% of the GenVibers recommend Techron for fuel injector cleaner, but has anyone tried the Lucas Oil Fuel Injector cleaner? I noticed O'Reily Auto Parts has it on sale 2/$7 I believe. I've never seen their f/i cleaner before just their fuel system additive so I'm not sure if it's new or if I'm just out of the loop. For anyone that has used it, how does it compare to Techron? Any other comment's on it?

Quote, originally posted by Wolfman213 »I know that 99.9% of the GenVibers recommend Techron for fuel injector cleaner, but has anyone tried the Lucas Oil Fuel Injector cleaner? I noticed O'Reily Auto Parts has it on sale 2/$7 I believe. I've never seen their f/i cleaner before just their fuel system additive so I'm not sure if it's new or if I'm just out of the loop. For anyone that has used it, how does it compare to Techron? Any other comment's on it?If you're talking about the product pictured below, which is the fuel system cleaner/ upper cylinder lubricant, I use it quite a bit and have had very good luck with it. I buy it buy the gallon at truck stops. A gallon is aout $23 and treats up to 400 gallons of fuel. It improves gas mileage and reduces maintenence issues. It's basically the cleaner and lubricants without the kerosene solvent you get in the 8-oz bottles. I cut it with a little gasoline in the winter so it pours more easily. I first started using this in my 1996 Tracker about 6 or 7 years ago. The fuel rail would clog up periodicaly because the tubes were too narrow, and the vehicle would frequently idle poorly. It also liked to go through EGR valves every 6 months, even though I tried to keep it tuned. After using this generously the problems pretty much stopped. You may also notice that it will lower fuel pump noise.On a side note, I also started using E-85 in the tracker as an experiment in about 2003. I was putting a tank per month or so of E-85 in the car for about 5 years and I added the Lucas to the tanks and never had any problems (milage was lower, though). It still started and ran well up until I gave it away just recently to a friend, who's still driving it.

Quote, originally posted by ned23 »If you're talking about the product pictured below, which is the fuel system cleaner/ upper cylinder lubricant, I use it quite a bit and have had very good luck with it. I buy it buy the gallon at truck stops. A gallon is aout $23 and treats up to 400 gallons of fuel. It improves gas mileage and reduces maintenence issues. It's basically the cleaner and lubricants without the kerosene solvent you get in the 8-oz bottles. I cut it with a little gasoline in the winter so it pours more easily. I first started using this in my 1996 Tracker about 6 or 7 years ago. The fuel rail would clog up periodicaly because the tubes were too narrow, and the vehicle would frequently idle poorly. It also liked to go through EGR valves every 6 months, even though I tried to keep it tuned. After using this generously the problems pretty much stopped. You may also notice that it will lower fuel pump noise.On a side note, I also started using E-85 in the tracker as an experiment in about 2003. I was putting a tank per month or so of E-85 in the car for about 5 years and I added the Lucas to the tanks and never had any problems (milage was lower, though). It still started and ran well up until I gave it away just recently to a friend, who's still driving it. That Lucas stuff rocks...been using it for years.Wow I cant say enough good words about it.

It's true Lucas Oil is sweet

I've heard a lot of goods things about their products, but have yet to try them. I'm not sure if it's an actual stand alone fuel injector cleaner or the upper cylinder Lube with injector cleaner like you pictured. I'll have to go take a look this weekend.

Quote, originally posted by Wolfman213 »I've heard a lot of goods things about their products, but have yet to try them. I'm not sure if it's an actual stand alone fuel injector cleaner or the upper cylinder Lube with injector cleaner like you pictured. I'll have to go take a look this weekend.Go for the one with the upper cylinder lube. If you start early and use it with synthetic motor oil, your car will never even burn a quart of oil between changes for the first 100,000 miles or so. It also lubricates the fuel pump. You may not even hear it anymore. I put this stuff in everything, even small engine equipment, like my 2-cycle snow blower, chain saw and generator. I put a generous amount in the tank of lawn equipment and run it dry for storage and then run it dry again once or twice while stored the equipment always starts right up after winter/summer storage.

you may want to stay with factory approved products, your GM dealer has a port fuel injector cleaner available Canadian part number 88861012, good for 2 tank fulls from what I am told.

The Lucas stuff is what has been recommended to me by a lot of people. I know Techron is GM's brand o' choice, but the Lucas stuff really seems to work well without any negative impact.

Quote, originally posted by bonzo4ever »The Lucas stuff is what has been recommended to me by a lot of people. I know Techron is GM's brand o' choice, but the Lucas stuff really seems to work well without any negative impact. Lucas is also much cheaper if you buy it in bulk. If you buy most of the other brands you're paying for 75% kerosene solvent to make it pour quickly. They typically use K1 kerosene or jet fuel, which is basically a slightly higher grade of kerosene or fuel oil. If you really are worried about pouring you can mix your own gasoline or coleman white gas with it and get a superior product.

Just thought I'd rekindle this flame and reiterate that Lucas Oil's fuel system cleaner is pretty amazing. I used the deep clean formula that was $7.97 at Wally World although I bought mine at Meijer for about the same. Was $10 at AZ I think, and I'm referring to the big bottle that treats up to 30 gallons but it's safe to go heavy with this stuff from what I read. I certainly wouldn't go heavier than that and the 15 gallon treatment was nearly the same price.

Here's the skinny... Noticeable idle change, much smoother and nearly silent while sitting either in gear or neutral. Snappy acceleration and I feel like I can tell 135k worth of build up is breaking free. I've rescued this car and turned it around to a top in the course of two weeks. New NGK laser iridiums and a good MAF cleaner can go a long way as well. I plan to ad some the full synthetic oil treatment on the next oil change as well, and even tho I just had Jim White Toyota service my Vibe with a fresh oil change I'm eager to get back in there to get some lucas in my engine and my tranny as well.

So yes Toyota was welcoming to me for service. Very I might add and I had a nice go through on my car With the service manager. We decided to do a drain and fill on my manual tranny with Toytota's standard 80/90. Here the best part folks... Oil change and tranny fluid change was just over $60 out the door. I about shat with excitement. I'm going to ad the lucas transmission repair just for safe measure with these problematic trannys. <-- I opted not to do this transmission fix stuff for various reasons... but the fuel treatment does seem to be working well.

Spend 10 minutes reading testimonials around the web like I did. then start with the fuel cleaner like I did. then I think you'll agree, this is dank lube for everywhere. And No I do not work for lucas but I became a believer in about 15 minutes today. Check the link and read the Faq's and testimonials.

Peace out!

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I've used the Lucas Oil Fuel Injector for years in my cars (09 Vibe, 07 Caliber, 87 Wrangler). I also have been adding the Lucas Heavy Duty Oil Stabilizer ever since the Vibe turned 50,000 miles. 150,000+ miles later still runs nice and smooth!!!