Lucas Fuel injector cleaner

Anybody have experience with using Fuel Injector in their VFR?
If so, could you share your experience here please?
What do you guys think of the Lucas Fuel Treatment?

Lucas Fuel Treatment : Lucas Oil

 

AW:

I see you are a new member, and I'm pretty sure (at least for the moment) you are not elf800 starting another slick 50 thread.

Based upon this information I have two words to sum up the fuel cleaner/ oil additive market:

SNAKE OIL!

However, some people claim the product "seafoam" works, but that's regarding bikes with carbs.

If your having FI problems, post up the issue on the board and see what people say. Lucas Fueal cleaner will probably not be recommended.

My 2 cents.

 

Never used the Lucas product, but have used Chevron Techron f.i. system cleaner, which is highly rated by many in the auto biz.

I use it about once a year, and after running a tankful of gas through the bike I then change oil/filter.

Do the same in my car (Acura Integra GS-R), and have not noticed any ill effects on either bike or car.

It's preventative maintenance, ymmv.

 

I just use Chevron fuel so as to get a bit of techron in every tankful. My bro-in-law used to be aan auto mechanic at a BMW dealer and he told me for about half of the people that would bring in their cars with "fuel injection" issues, they would dump a bottle of techron in the tank, drive the car for 10 minutes or so, and bill the customer for an hour of work. He said they never had any complaints and he swears by the stuff. Who knows...

 

if your injectors are gumed up the only effective way to clean them up that I have found is to remove them and soak them in denatured alcohol for about 4 to 5 days. 9 times out of 10 it will clear out any guming up from fuel residue without causing any damage to the injectors.

 

i think it tastes like ancient treacle, ugh............!!


and may be polluting our home planet, not to mention the constant embarassment.

no one who's ever owned a British auto trusts the Lucas name.

 

Here's a question for the masses that I have never understood. OK, so sitting gas creates a varnish like material that gums up the carbs or injector. I get that. Now when it is so bad the bike doesn't start, obviously you have to take the carbs apart and clean and/or rebuild. But, when people say the bike is just running rough, implying the needles or injectors are only partially clogged, creating a fuel starvation issue. Why wouldn't just running the engine clear the blockage? Either the heat from the running engine or the fact of the gas (a pretty harsh solvant) running thru the needles or injectors slowly but surely disolve the blockage? Is it a matter of it would, but just take too long to be practical? Or that it would, but the is a risk of engine damage during the time isn't worth the risk? Or fear of dislodging the varnish clump & it getting pushed into an even smaller area?
Now I know you aren't supposed to do it, don't get me wrong, but had I never read about it before, my first thought would be if you could get it started, to run it and run it hard for a couple of tankfuls of fresh gas. So why wouldnt' that work. Just out of curiosity?
Spike << lives where this really isn't an issue

 

that's what SeaFoam does, but it it's too gummred up to run at all, cleaning by hand is the only option.

actually most of the deposits in slow jets seem to be a hard, calcified-like blockage, and even carb cleaner spray is not fully capable of removing it; that's when you reach for the fine wire.