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It works, but at $10 a can, the Chemtool B12 works just the same and is only about $4 a can. I don’t use it on my new truck because after doing it once and spending $85 to have the vehicle’s computer zero-point calibrated I’ll never do it again. Older, non-electronic vehicles are fine, new ones only use it in the fuel tank to help clean the injectors.
I agree, seems schools are catering more towards sports than a kid that wants an education. Another dumbing down of society. I know quite a few of the kids in the local auto shop and they love being in auto, its something they can do work hands on rather than sitting in a classroom reading a bunch of nonsense stories and making up reports about. I really wish schools would support these programs more rather than wasting tons of money on sports activities. The local high school has an auto shop, but the Woodworking program is long gone sadly as well, but the sports programs are still there that teaches absolutely nothing.
I agree, seems schools are catering more towards sports than a kid that wants an education. Another dumbing down of society. I know quite a few of the kids in the local auto shop and they love being in auto, its something they can do work hands on rather than sitting in a classroom reading a bunch of nonsense stories and making up reports about. I really wish schools would support these programs more rather than wasting tons of money on sports activities. The local high school has an auto shop, but the Woodworking program is long gone sadly as well, but the sports programs are still there that teaches absolutely nothing.
Something you may check into is your local high school’s auto shop. They can do quite a bit of work and save you a fortune. They usually just require you to buy the parts once they find what’s wrong with your vehicle, they don’t charge a labor fee as they’re just learning. Here’s why I’m suggesting you try it because I’ve so far saves about $2700 in labor and guessing on parts on a 1984 Ford Bronco 2. I picked it up about 3 months ago, intitially it ran great on the test drive, some point before I was able to get it paid for and brought home the seller’s son started screwing around with it and hooked the alternator up wrong, so I fixed that. Then came the leaking head gaskets, I had the parts but no warm shop to work in and at negative temperatures I knew there was no way I could do it myself. A family friend has a son in auto and needed a project, I told him as long as he took his time and did it right he could do the work, well he did the job very well, then a couple weeks later I go to start it and get it started and hear what I thought was a rod about to go through the engine block, call up the kid and ask him if he wanted another project, he took it to the shop and well its been there 2 weeks now but turns out the previous owner replaced the clutch and had the flywheel resurfaced and in the process of replacing it they stripped the bolts so the flywheel was literally about to fall off the engine. So that’s been fixed, and then yesterday and today he’s spent replacing the oil pan gaskets and doing another oil/filter change on it for me. There’s no way on a $700 a month income that I could have been able to keep this truck going without the help of my local high school auto shop. yes there have been a few other kids working on the bronco 2 as well, but I know then and know how well they do working on their own cars so I’m not worried about it.
Now would I take my brand new $60,000 car to them, absolutely not, but an old truck or car I have no problems with because its not really worth anything to me sitting in the driveway broken down, and if that helps give some kids practice and helps them get a better grade in class for participation I’m all for it. The shop teacher always inspects the vehicles when they complete the service before its released to leave so it’s not like its all done and know one bothers to double check the work.
Something you may check into is your local high school’s auto shop. They can do quite a bit of work and save you a fortune. They usually just require you to buy the parts once they find what’s wrong with your vehicle, they don’t charge a labor fee as they’re just learning. Here’s why I’m suggesting you try it because I’ve so far saves about $2700 in labor and guessing on parts on a 1984 Ford Bronco 2. I picked it up about 3 months ago, intitially it ran great on the test drive, some point before I was able to get it paid for and brought home the seller’s son started screwing around with it and hooked the alternator up wrong, so I fixed that. Then came the leaking head gaskets, I had the parts but no warm shop to work in and at negative temperatures I knew there was no way I could do it myself. A family friend has a son in auto and needed a project, I told him as long as he took his time and did it right he could do the work, well he did the job very well, then a couple weeks later I go to start it and get it started and hear what I thought was a rod about to go through the engine block, call up the kid and ask him if he wanted another project, he took it to the shop and well its been there 2 weeks now but turns out the previous owner replaced the clutch and had the flywheel resurfaced and in the process of replacing it they stripped the bolts so the flywheel was literally about to fall off the engine. So that’s been fixed, and then yesterday and today he’s spent replacing the oil pan gaskets and doing another oil/filter change on it for me. There’s no way on a $700 a month income that I could have been able to keep this truck going without the help of my local high school auto shop. yes there have been a few other kids working on the bronco 2 as well, but I know then and know how well they do working on their own cars so I’m not worried about it.
Now would I take my brand new $60,000 car to them, absolutely not, but an old truck or car I have no problems with because its not really worth anything to me sitting in the driveway broken down, and if that helps give some kids practice and helps them get a better grade in class for participation I’m all for it. The shop teacher always inspects the vehicles when they complete the service before its released to leave so it’s not like its all done and know one bothers to double check the work.
My first car was a 1984 Ford Ranger XL 4×2, 2.8L V6, 3 speed automatic. Drove that until about 8 years ago because at that time I didn’t know therangerstation.com site existed or I could have found a simple fix for the issues I was continually having with it. I sold it, and wish i didn’t now. The body was in excellent condition no dents, scratches, interior was in excellent condition except for the standard cracks in the dash which must have been normal because the 1984 Ford Bronco 2 I have now has the same cracks. I bought the Ranger from my grandparents for $1. At that time it was leaking oil from every place imaginable, but considering it pulled a 16′ travel trailer all over the country after my grandfather retired, it did pretty well. I spent about $800 having the seals and gaskets replaced at the local ford garage which is where my problems started they broke a mount off the carburetor, and that’s when my engine problems started, they never really fixed the engine operation problems after that even after 3 carburetors, then turns out about a year ago I found out what was wrong, I spent over $1200 in carburetors, sensors, parts, etc. just to find out on another forum that the computer was causing the problems. Well needless to say the computer in the Bronco 2 was bypassed pretty quick. I just picked up the Bronco 2 about 3 months ago, it needs a lot of exterior body work on the passenger side from rust, but other than some minor engine tuning and fixes it runs and drives awesome for being 29 years old.
1984 Ford Ranger: (unfortunately this is the only picture I’ve been able to find of it)
[IMG]http://i1251.photobucket.com/albums/hh548/mowerguy2012/Photobucket%20Desktop%20-%20BILLS-PC/2012/1984FordRangerXL.jpg[/IMG]1984 Ford Bronco 2:
[IMG]http://i1251.photobucket.com/albums/hh548/mowerguy2012/Photobucket%20Desktop%20-%20BILLS-PC/IMG_0971.jpg[/IMG]My first car was a 1984 Ford Ranger XL 4×2, 2.8L V6, 3 speed automatic. Drove that until about 8 years ago because at that time I didn’t know therangerstation.com site existed or I could have found a simple fix for the issues I was continually having with it. I sold it, and wish i didn’t now. The body was in excellent condition no dents, scratches, interior was in excellent condition except for the standard cracks in the dash which must have been normal because the 1984 Ford Bronco 2 I have now has the same cracks. I bought the Ranger from my grandparents for $1. At that time it was leaking oil from every place imaginable, but considering it pulled a 16′ travel trailer all over the country after my grandfather retired, it did pretty well. I spent about $800 having the seals and gaskets replaced at the local ford garage which is where my problems started they broke a mount off the carburetor, and that’s when my engine problems started, they never really fixed the engine operation problems after that even after 3 carburetors, then turns out about a year ago I found out what was wrong, I spent over $1200 in carburetors, sensors, parts, etc. just to find out on another forum that the computer was causing the problems. Well needless to say the computer in the Bronco 2 was bypassed pretty quick. I just picked up the Bronco 2 about 3 months ago, it needs a lot of exterior body work on the passenger side from rust, but other than some minor engine tuning and fixes it runs and drives awesome for being 29 years old.
1984 Ford Ranger: (unfortunately this is the only picture I’ve been able to find of it)
[IMG]http://i1251.photobucket.com/albums/hh548/mowerguy2012/Photobucket%20Desktop%20-%20BILLS-PC/2012/1984FordRangerXL.jpg[/IMG]1984 Ford Bronco 2:
[IMG]http://i1251.photobucket.com/albums/hh548/mowerguy2012/Photobucket%20Desktop%20-%20BILLS-PC/IMG_0971.jpg[/IMG]