I buy the Ford stuff by the gallon also. I just recently transferred the contents into easy to pour glass bottles and filled some tankful size disposable and reusable containers.

And yes, I make sure ALL of the water has evaporated before filling the water bottles.

 

Zenith, thats a good plan there, Gig

 

I find this really easy, one bottle in every tank, summer, winter all year round.

Thanks

 

Darren, how many OZs are in that bottle?

 

8 oz (235ml for us ) treats 30 gal (120L)
A case of 24 bottles is around $100.00 here

Thanks

 

24 bottles treat 720 gallons of fuel for $100 Ford Motorcraft 1 gallon cans treat 1,000 gallons. $36 a gallon.

 

Convenience not cost for me. I am sure you can by the gallons (or 55 gal drum) of the stanadyne for a lot less.

 

Stanadyne can be bought in cases of 6 each 1/2 gallon cans for less than $36/gal. By the 55 gal barrel it is around $22/gal. It all comes down to how much you want to pay for convenience.

 

All Ford dealers stock the Motorcraft additive in 2 different sizes.

 

I use Ford cetane booster & its only about $40. a gallon here............
I dont mind pouring it out of the gallon can............just my .02

 

Zenith, I'm sorry, but those bottles look like trucker bombs left along the side of rest areas. You sure you want to touch them?

The Opti Lube Gallon bottle comes with a Squirt dispenser. It's easy when I pull up home after a fuel fill up to just hold the squirt nozzle in the fuel opening and depress the plunger 2-3-4 times depending on how much fuel I just bought. They also ship a 6oz bottle that you can refill and keep behind the seat.

 

Which bottles, the big ones? They are actually half gallon SKYY vodka bottles. Of course I made sure they were empty before using them

 

I would not put that stuff in old water bottles. The plastic in water bottles is actually coated and your additive will probably eat the coating off and you'll get nice chunks of coating in your injectors.

Buy some Nalgene bottles at an outdoor store. They fit nicely in the door pockets and are rated for that type of chemical exposure.

 

We started using stanadyne in our bulk tanks in 2008. Since then we have seen a 5-6% increase in mileage, plus only one injector to go south. That was a electrical short. The power services stuff is A-1 horse crap. It is an emulsifier which coats the water in diesel and let's it through your water separator and into the motor....... Which is bad. Lucas sucks too. I've heard it actually makes fuel worse. Optilube, or stanadyne is the best.

The number I just gave are from a fleet of 16 trucks ranging from ready mix to tri axle dumps. We keep a TIGHT book on fuel mileage. So these numbers are not BS, they are real numbers we use to make business decisions.

 

Good to know, thanks for that. Which stanadyne formula do you use?