Throttle Body Spacer

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Winter weather and fuel blend?

[Jackpine]

Who the heck knows? I can't really see how a spacer would do ANYTHING in a fuel injected vehicle. I suppose my next step would be to reinstall it to see if your mileage went up again. And if it did, maybe we ALL ought to get one!

- Jack

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If so - we're going to catch hell at F150online trying to convince everyone to put one on...

You post it up first.

[Jackpine]

Thanks heaps, buddy! This IS getting interesting though.

- Jack

[Longshot270]

Jack, when you got suckered into a fuel atomizer, did they ever say how it works? I looked up a few sites that sell them but they never say how they work in theory.(that is my first red flag because it means I'm supposed to just take their word for it.) I know that the current products are pretty much a scam(even if the mileage results can be verified but that is another scam in itself) but even I have accomplished things off of impossible failures.
Haha dont get me started on the guys at Best Buy...

[88Racing]

Originally Posted by longshot270

Jack, when you got suckered into a fuel atomizer, did they ever say how it works? I looked up a few sites that sell them but they never say how they work in theory.(that is my first red flag because it means I'm supposed to just take their word for it.) I know that the current products are pretty much a scam(even if the mileage results can be verified but that is another scam in itself) but even I have accomplished things off of impossible failures.
Haha dont get me started on the guys at Best Buy...

Another scam was the moth ball one.
That also was to help your mpg's.
Dump a few in your tank and your off to save yourself some $$$$!!!!

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Originally Posted by 88Racing

Another scam was the moth ball one.
That also was to help your mpg's.
Dump a few in your tank and your off to save yourself some $$$$!!!!

Uh oh...Does anyone know how to drop the 36 gallon tank on an 09 4x4?

[Longshot270]

Originally Posted by shotgun

Uh oh...Does anyone know how to drop the 36 gallon tank on an 09 4x4?

Haha your sounding kinda like that kid who dumped NOS into his gixxer.

[Jackpine]

In answer to your question Longshot (and remember this was way back in the 70's - before many of you were born), the atomizer broke the fuel down into even "finer" droplets that would supposedly burn more efficiently!

I honestly don't know why I fell for that now that I've reached my "golden years". I certainly knew enough then to realize this was a totally bogus line of reasoning. I think I was just "young", and naive.

One thing that DID work though, was Mobil 1 oil. It added an honest 2mpg to my gas mileage! Of course it had a lower viscosity index than the 20W40 (or was it 20W50?) I was using before I tried it, and I'm certain that was the major reason, but it sure was a lot more expensive, more so then than now.

- Jack

[Longshot270]

Originally Posted by JackandJanet

In answer to your question Longshot (and remember this was way back in the 70's - before many of you were born), the atomizer broke the fuel down into even "finer" droplets that would supposedly burn more efficiently!

I honestly don't know why I fell for that now that I've reached my "golden years". I certainly knew enough then to realize this was a totally bogus line of reasoning. I think I was just "young", and naive.

One thing that DID work though, was Mobil 1 oil. It added an honest 2mpg to my gas mileage! Of course it had a lower viscosity index than the 20W40 (or was it 20W50?) I was using before I tried it, and I'm certain that was the major reason, but it sure was a lot more expensive, more so then than now.

- Jack

Well I guess that might work if you were running WAY rich. That would probably be a good idea on those little nitro cars and air planes because you have to run them rich anyway.