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Offline lawnmowerman

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Ethomix fuel additive
« on: 20.04. 2011 18:11 »
Anyone thought of trying this stuff http://www.frost.co.uk/ethomix-additive.html

Jim
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1938 Wolseley 14/60
1955 Ferguson TEF20 tractor
1965 Ferguson 135 tractor
1952 Matchless G80 rigid
1960 BMW R60
1954 Matchless G80S
1955 Ariel 500 VH
1951 Sunbeam S7DL
1960 Matchless G12 with Watsonian Monza
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Offline bsa-bill

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Re: Ethomix fuel additive
« Reply #1 on: 26.04. 2011 10:09 »
No Jim but I did buy some "Dry Tank" from Halfords -  I think it was around a fiver, bought it to cure my lawnmower as it had swallowed an eggcup full of water some time back and has hicked ever since.

Did'nt cure the hickups so I assumed it was a remove the carb job, however it doesn't seem to have much of a carb, looks like the jet just sticks down into the tank and up into the inlet tract.
I took the plug out, it was caked in soot - where have I seen that before?

Anyway while pootering around the WWW I came on this from Burlen (The Amal Company)
http://www.amalcarb.co.uk/TechnicalDetail.aspx?id=10

Given a balanced read it seems there's as many pros as cons, fuel lines will need replaced this is no bad thing as I'm pretty sure they would be better replaced on a regular basis, how many of us do that?
All the best - Bill
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Offline chaz

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Re: Ethomix fuel additive
« Reply #2 on: 29.04. 2011 18:17 »
problem with this is that running another product like valvemaster, plus ethomix and a drop of methanol where do we end up. surely its the petrol companies that should be doing something about it .

regarding the fuel pipe part, Yamaha service agents are supposed to change them when customers bikes are 6 years or older. customers wont be very happy having to pay extra when they allready think service charges are too high  my local Yamaha dealer wont work on bikes over 6 years old because of the extra cost ..
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