Is HEET better than Seafoam for Water in Fuel? Let's find out!
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- Опубликовано: 25 ноя 2024
- Which product works best for removing water contaminated fuel: Seafoam, HEET, or Isopropyl Alcohol? In this video, we test each of these products in water and we also test how they do with preventing and melting ice that's formed in gasoline.
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If there is water why not just add some E85. Seafoam has mostly Naphtha a form of gas, well Coleman fuel. Also has alcohol and water.
What about making a video testing front end suspension parts. I worked on a 1990's Chevy truck replacing the original front ball joints and tie rods. Some parts had to be cut off. It was such tough solid steel i never could cut all the way through. However replacement parts for that same truck I cut through like butter. They changed the solid steel tremendously.
@@gregsz1ful doesn't E85 corrod rubber cause collapse and more
@@nicklopez5298 yes. I was just suggesting adding a little.
You should do strongest hot glue gun glue if you have not or even construction adhesive
Back in the day, we used to buy 4 bottles of a product called "Drygas" (gas line antifreeze that was mainly isopropyl alcohol) made by Christie, and add all 4 bottles to a half tank of fuel just before going to get our annual inspections done - this would guarantee a pass, no matter how out of tune your engine was. I had a '85 Monte Carlo that I brought in once - the guy showed me the screen as my car was running. Limit was 220 or so PPM hydrocarbon emissions - I was at 2,596 ppm, HAHAHA! Think I had several misfires going on. I said, "I'll come back later today for a retest" - he says, "I don't know how you plan to fix this in one day, but you're going to have to pay again if you fail". Dumped in the 4 bottles, and went for a drive in 1st & 2nd gear, revving the crap out of the engine to get that converter red hot. Came back for the retest - it was only 2 hours after I had been there. Guy was shaking his head. Sticks the sniffer in, and it only got to 55 ppm! His mind was BLOWN - he says, "What the hell did you do to this thing??" I replied, "I fixed it." 🤣 He was staring at me as I backed out, like I had just dropped down from outer space. 😂
Great video, as always. You and your family have a very Merry Christmas, and a Happy, Prosperous New Year. God bless.
I really enjoyed reading your comments! Glad your approach worked so well! Wishing you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year as well. God Bless.
LMAO ty
Project Farm u too
How many miles did it have on the clock?The Cat was probably well past its useful life expectancy. I do wonder if the alcohol cleaned it off a bit. lol.
@@Marc83Aus - About a year later, the cat plugged solid on it. I was in the left lane of a fairly major 2-lane highway in the city, and hit a big hill - the car slowed to 10 MPH, HAHAHA! People were honking and swearing at me ... but of course nobody would let be over. I had my foot right to the rug, and the noise out the intake was 3x louder than the exhaust: BOOOOOOOOOOGGGG!! I went to my buddy's place later that afternoon, and we dropped the exhaust and smashed the melted honeycomb out of the cat. After that, the car felt like it gained 200HP, went from 6 mpg to 20, and I was able to leave rubber on command ... and I did. One-tire fires EVERYWHERE. 🤣
Thank you for making these videos! I work at a family owned auto parts store and I've referenced your videos several times to help sell some of the products we carry. It's also helped us discontinue some of the products we used to carry after seeing how they've failed in your videos. Keep up the good work!
Thank you!
All shops should do that.
A family-owned auto parts store? Wow! I don't remember the last time I saw one. Good luck!
Where is your store?
If I live nearby, you'll have a lifetime customer.
@@Winterstick549 same here!
I'm an electrician. Occasionally I had to deal with underground conduits (they always have water in them) and when the ground is frozen I added HEAT (when it came in cans instead of plastic. Add a couple cans and the next day the conduit was slushy enough to pull the old wires out and install new ones. Worked very well for me about a dozen times.
Great tip!
Antifreeze or heavily salted water also works
@@damonlemasters3424 works too well. Anti-freeze reacts with/melts pvc, before it got banned/frowned upon for quick and easy bends we'd dunk whatever length in a bucket of antifreeze for a few seconds, after pulling it out it would be like a cooked spaghetti noodle, and that's just a few seconds.
@@ProjectFarm i was thinking about running oil gasoline and diesel through a water filter and if it would change any properties or the way they work
@@damonlemasters3424 Salted water might be bad for electrical wiring.
I'll throw my story on here.
I once had to leave my 2001 Pontiac Grand Am sit outside for almost a month during college winter break without starting it. Temps below freezing the entire time, and as low as negative single digits at night. And eventually got a foot of snow on it, and 3 ft drifts almost burying it.
My Dad had taught me to put Heet in my tank every fillup during winter, but I had neglected this particular half tank that had been sitting in it.
When it was time to go back to school, I unburied the car just enough to get in it. Figuring that I'd start it, finish digging it out, and let it warm up. When I tried to start it, it would turn over, but wouldn't start. I told my Dad about it, and after he scolded me, he offered a bottle of Iso-Heet from his truck. He said "dump it in, let it sit for an hour or 2, THEN try it".
Well after letting it sit, and watching some football, I tried starting it again and lo and behold, she started up, ran rough for a few mins (with some coaxing on the gas pedal), and didn't sputter or die.
Thanks your story helped me tremendously
SO the point is - you messed up again?
@@roberthooper8883 Well the head gasket eventually went out on it, and it wasn't worth $1500 to fix, so I got a 7 years newer Focus.
For which I am currently saving up to fix the AC, and rear end...
@@GreenMosin93 Oh! All's well that ends well... I was just blabbing lol- most of my best lessons were from my Dad...
Cool story bro
Isopropyl alcohol is sometimes sold a rubbing alcohol. Rubbing alcohol often contains 'lubricants' in the form of silicone polymers. The silicones pass out the combustion chamber's exhaust port as silica which can foul the emission sensors in some cars. When the sensors fail the computer can intentionally degrade the car's performance and the repairs can be expensive. So if you're planning on using isopropyl alcohol, make sure it's not the rubbing alcohol type.
Great point! Thank you for this information.
SE Michigan Andy I did not know this.
@@noohairdontcare I found it out in a meeting I attended in the 90s.
Emissions are junk anyway, slows you down
@@Jay-hu6ne....Yea, breathing is overrated.
Some more great take-aways with your product showdown. Something folks should remember is that none of these products "remove" water in the tank. They just break it up to the point where the engine can still burn the mixture. Some products, as you proved, perform better than others. Thanks for the video.
Thanks for the feedback. You are welcome!
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When I was stationed in Alaska in the late 70's we always used heat when we fueled up in the winter. Never had a problem. Heat was the only product available to use.
Thank you!
I truly appreciate you. It looks fun doing all these tests! Very helpful stuff.
Two days ago I used the 91% isopropanol alcohol and it got me going thank you.
This is by far your #1 video for me. My great uncle always told me to put rubbing alcohol in the fuel in winter along with adding rubbing alcohol to the windshield fluid reservoir. I use seafoam to clean my fuel injectors. This is the data I wanted. Awesome video again. By the way he was a WWII veteran in the European theater so he might have picked it up there.
Thank you!
Your channel is growing fast. Almost 400K Subscribers. Congratulations! Keep up the great work Todd.
Hi Doug, Your channel is growing fast too, and I really enjoy your videos. The latest "free energy" video was great! Thanks again, Todd
@@ProjectFarm Dear Project Farm,
i really enjoy your channel and content. also your a very upbeat positive person and i like that. thanks for the great videos i look forward to every weeks episode. some longer videos would be cool! i do understand the amount it takes to create these videos. again, Thanks.
Matt from Vermont
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Pretty amazing! @@ProjectFarm
Man, how cool, you took my advice and tested water removal. Awesome!!! This episode is special to me and I'm honored. Thank you sir. I asked to have this tested cause I got 2 100 gallon tanks with water that got in them. I bought a wix filter that looks like a snake and put it in the tank and it did an awesome job of removing the water in that filter from wix. If you haven't seen these type of filters you need to cause they do work should you accidentally get water into fuel. What an excellent Christmas present.
Thank you for recommending this one! Every video in the last year that I've done has been recommended by viewers. I've got a lot more on the way. Thanks again!
This water removal kit?
www.amazon.com/24587-Filter-Heavy-Water-Removal/dp/B000RDJNOO
@Clip Joint
Thanks for your awesome idea. ✌️
@@haydenc2742 Yes sir thats it. It works very well. They use it a lot in the marine world.
I think one way to remove the water would be to let the tank freeze, pump out the fuel, heat it up to unfreeze, and pump the water out.
I've been running snow machines on my trapline for 30 plus years. In my experience the best option is to leave water frozen in the bottom of the tank. If you add isopropyl it will pick up the moisture and carry it up through your fuel system and refreeze in your fuel pump, fuel lines and carburetor. And to always use a screened funnel when adding fuel to stop water before it gets in the tank. Love your channel.
Thanks! Thanks for sharing.
How does a screened funnel stop water from getting in the fuel?
@@plantfeeder6677 if it is frozen it won't go through the screen
@@donschneider7252 I don't think he's talking frozen water. That would be an Captain Obvious in my book.
Well that is exactly what he’s talking about so…
When I came back from Germany in December 1982 I got stationed in Mountain Home AFB Idaho. I had a 1972 Volkswagen bus with a Porsche 914 engine running a single Holley carb. I had no problem with water in the gas until I got to Idaho, filled up my tank and hit the highway when I got to my exit my bus wouldn't idle down because the water in the gas there froze the throttle open. I was told that all the gas in Idaho has water in the tanks because of condensation because the tanks are all above ground. I had to put a can of STP additive to my tank every time I gassed up to prevent this. By the way my bus would go 105 to 110MPH on the autobahn. Thanks for your videos, very informative.
You are welcome! Thanks for sharing.
Nice! I have been using seafoam for years and always buy non ethanol gas! Another tip is to put a gallon or two into your vehicle first before you fill up your cans at the gas station. This clears the hose and pump of any ethanol fuel!
Thanks for sharing.
"Mixer cleaned between mixings"
That's some good scientific rigor, there. Respect!
Thank you!
I worked at a gas station for about a year and we had to dip our fuel tanks once a week and once during my shift the paste we used to test the water came up positive for water in out tanks (it was extremely sensitive paste, even reacting to water in the air on humid days) and so we had to report it to our HQ and they sent out a huge tank filled with HEET and added another 20% of liquid into our tank to absorb the water.
They then had to leave the truck over night to allow it to mix said fuel to ensure it was properly applied and we offered a discount to customers of about 50 cents due to the contaminated fuel.
Most people were just happy to get cheap fuel and word spread fast, emptying our tank in about 4 days. It had to be fully empty to ensure all the water was gone and then workers came by to go into the tank to check for cracks in the shell.
Great information! Thank you
Heet is a great product. If you are ever very close to passing an emissions test and have done everything, you can run your car to empty, throw in 4-5 bottles of heat (around $1 a bottle some places) and get it to pass.
Great tip!
Yep methanol burns clean and hot, but can eat old rubber lines
@GravityToy Forsyth County still has emissions testing
@GravityToy the vehicle passed emissions as designed, so it is simple to figure out if an emission related device or engine tune relate device failed, emissions would increase
Back in my days as a mechanic, adding 10% methanol to gasoline was a favorite method to make any car pass emissions.
I had my fuel line on a diesel pickup truck freeze up while driving in Ottawa, Ontario Canada at -25C, and I was luckily already prepared for winter fuel issues, since I already was carrying Methyl Hydrate. 4L jug for about $10-$11.
My diesel has an electric lift pump along the frame rail, and a mechanical injector pump at the engine. I got out to listen if my lift pump was working, and no noise coming from it. I grabbed the Methyl Hydrate from inside the truck, and splashed about 1.2 a cup down the fuel fill tube, and the moment it made it to the fuel, I started to hear my lift pump make an ever increasingly progressive noise from quiet to normal audible levels in about 8 seconds from pouring the Methyl Hydrate.
You can find it in the paint section where you'd find paint thinner, mineral spirits, etc. There are 2 exciting features about it that fascinates me, it works almost instantly, and its dirt cheap for an amount to last you a year of problem solving.!!
Thanks for sharing!
You proved what my father said “Knowledge is a gold mine” is TRUE.
Your father is very wise! Thank you
Stupid people who can't correctly remember these things are very dangerous.
Just watch tweekers, that will explain it all.
@@davejones5640 - You forgot ONE thing... Stupid People makes you smart... DUHHH............. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
You know u search for most of these topics on RUclips and theirs 1000s for each but i honestly trust this channel and love how each gets specific tests to prove. I trust this channel and continue to love it keep up the good work
Thank you so much 😀
Spend 11 years in Alaska. I added a bottle of ISOHEET to the gas tank about once a month. When I did have problems with ice on my Wife's or other family members' cars, a bottle of ISOHEET and an overnight stay always cured the problem. Bought a used car that had been sitting one winter and could not jump start it. Owner ended up dropping the price and I think that's why he was selling it. Brought out a portable heater and piling snow up around the perimeter of the car then putting the heater under the oil pan. Still no good. A bottle of ISOHEET, an overnight dwell, and the car started the next day.
Great post. Thanks for sharing your experiences.
@@ProjectFarm I too live in Alaska but i always buy the red HEET bottles.
Another great video! Even with the mixup at the end, it was a really fair comparison. I have been one of those people who thought Seafoam would take care of water, but it doesn't. I currently am battling an issue in a flood car, drained the tank by jumping the fuel pump relay. Added 5 gallons of fresh fuel and half a bottle of Seafoam. It ran ok right after, but now it seems to be challenged again. I am going to drain the tank again and change the fuel filter, this time I will add a bottle of Heet instead of Seafoam. (BTW, cold weather isn't a problem yet).
Thanks for the feedback.
Thank you for video. I have a 26 ft seayray with a 350 cid 300 hp motor. I used pump gas and found out that the pump gas had around 3 gallons of water in a 100 gallon S.S. fuel cell after about a month in rainy weather . I had to pump the whole tank out to get the water out due to failing to start.
I use ethanol free gas 100% petrol now with no problem . However I now understand that Heet or isopropyl alcohol could save a trip at the lake.
I enjoy your videos very much. In fact I'm looking forward to help support future videos.
Thanks a bunch God bless !
Thank you for the feedback
This guy is amazing. He deserves millions more subscribers then he has.
When I was stationed in Alaska in the early 70s, I was introduced to HEET. The universal recommendation was to add a bottle of HEET to each fill up of 10 gallons or more, to prevent fuel system icing. So I did, and after leaving the USAF and returning to Laramie, WY, I continued to use HEET in the winter. Since moving to northern Colorado, I haven’t used HEET as often, largely because our winters tend to be much milder. I honestly don‘ t know if adding HEET actually helped to prevent fuel system icing, other than I never had it happen.
Thanks for sharing.
What heet does it removes water as u drive ur car , the water will run out of ur tailpipe , if u ren ur gas low and freezing conditions set in and ur car won’t start I have added eat and car then did start
This has to have been one of the best videos i have ever seen on RUclips.... Random topic for me but very interesting to watch..
Glad to hear!
Go RUclips a video called - are you a good person. The author of this video is Living Waters. Check it out.
Good video. Small suggestion, if you have a situation in post production/editing where you realize you messed up like you did at the end with the HEET and IPA deice test, if time permits possibly see about shooting a quick voice over where you verbally talk over the video and mute all the audio from the original video. That way if someone is listening to the video in the background they would hear the correct information and don't need to rely on reading text they could potentially miss.
Great recommendation!
@@ProjectFarm No probs, obviously if you don't have the time to be able to record the voiceover, paste it in, and get everything to line up properly so you can export render the video and upload it to RUclips, we understand.
Well I understand what you're saying, I believe understood it very well. And actually this is a video about the difference in 3 products and not on how to edit videos. Just an opinion y'all have a good day
I worked in a garage in the late 70s. The Heet Aka Dry Gas would prevent freezing gas lines. The only way to get a car running with frozen lines was to get it into the heated garage. Thanks for all your hard work. I love to learn from your videos.
You are welcome! Glad to hear!
For my commercial mower and big tank, I finally added a water fuel separator from an old tractor and have emptied a lot off water from it at times. Runs better than ever, even after the Houston winter.
Thanks for sharing.
One of the best channels on you tube! Thanks.
So what product is the best to put on the boat I have 93 sea ray speed boat while using it and storing it
@@awaatking3440 im interested to know as well
Love this hidden gem
Project Farm: the man, the legend.
I realize this is a 4-year-old video, but having just found it I wanted to say THANK YOU for this and the follow-up vid running the mower on straight isopropyl alcohol. Awesome vids, very clear, easy to understand. MUCH appreciated!
I just want to say Thank You for all your experiments! I love watching them and learning new things. My father told me to put 91 percent alcohol in my gas tank every other fill up. Over time i stopped. I never knew why i did this. I switched to carb fluid, then sea foam. Now i will be using HEET. Thank you.
Thank you for the positive feedback!
"If you've ever had water in your fuel it can be a rather frustrating experience, especially if you don't have a solution"
I see what you did there😏
lol. Nice!
Yeah, that was good for a chuckle.
Lol, i see it now!
Not many things bloat my goat in regards to comedic value (dry humor is my go-to, lathed with sarcasm, as it is fun to watch people's confused facial expressions due to not being able to differentiate), and I didn't laugh at a single pun of 9 previous videos until this guy. Saw this and immediately caught the all too cliche pun at the beginning. So bad I had to chuckle... so literally: not many things make me laugh, but just now a pun-in-ten-did. *Ba-dum-tisssss!...
Maybe even a dispersion will help "pass" the water through the engine.
I had fuel line freeze once 20 years ago. Now every winter I stock up on Heet. I run a bottle every full up, or if it's not really cold every other. I haven't had any issues ever since. The ethanol in gas is
horrible it draws so much moisture from the air. I enjoyed this experiment And will continue running Heet in the future.
Thank you!
That lawn mower really is the unsung hero of project farm.
Also. The exact video I needed trying to fix my tractor.
Thanks!
I live in Wisconsin, and I add HEET as soon as we start hitting prolonged freezing temperatures. I've never had a problem with my car starting even in below 0 temps, but I use the red instead of the yellow just in case it actually does help the engine a bit more than the basic. This vid verifies that adding HEET before it's cold enough to freeze the line is the best method or protecting the car.
Thanks for sharing.
I've never tried HEET, but have always used Isopropyl Alcohol for water in fuel.
Thank you!
@@ProjectFarm?
ב''ה, pretty obvious when reading the labels but in the Heet brand, the red bottle is Iso-Heet, mostly isopropyl alcohol, while the standard yellow is the methanol formula.
Thank you for this! My dad told me I should start adding HEET to my fuel in winter to prevent any ice, I wasn't sure if it was just advertising or not! Glad to see this before winter hits.
Thank you!
“Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains”. It’s an old saying, but it’s true. Every time you laboriously take that cylinder head off and replace it with a new head gasket no less, and take a compression test yet again etc. etc. etc. you are taking exactly those pains. It’s so refreshing in these days of fact free opinions to see somebody working hard to actually find out what is really going on. We get to see it all in a beautifully edited sped up condensed gem of a production. But I can just barely imagine the amount of effort and planning these videos take. And you are obviously enjoying it. So are we. Many thanks!
Thanks for the feedback.
I grew up in the Midwest and we always used Heet and it always worked great 👍. That’s a top selling item in cold weather climates during the winter. I’ve always heard people say that they got good results with it.
Thanks for the feedback.
So true
Awesome video! I usually run a little injector cleaner during the winter just to be safe. Many years ago I had my fuel filter freeze up in the middle of winter, definitely wasn't fun.
Thank you!
I remember once as a youngster that my dad used a quart of strong rum to absorb water in his gas tank. The old bulletnosed Studebaker definitely ran better after that. That it tended to wander from one side of the road or the other was only due to a bad fiber washer in the steering gear. Great test.
Thank you
Thanks again Todd. This test was a eye opener. I have used Seafoam as a gas treatment and system cleaner; however, I've never tried the other products on vehicles for gas or system treatments. Heet seems to be a great product!
I like Heet the best. Thanks again!
I want to see this test with Diesel and Anti gel additives
Thanks for the video idea!
I would really like to see this too. I use howes diesel treatment here in the winter, never had an issue but im sure gas stations also treat their diesel as well.
Kleen is what I used for 25 years.
I also carried 8 bottles of the rubbing alcohol. I would be able to give to a driver in need.
I second this!
Love this idea
I use gas line antifreeze every winter in my snowmobile, which is basically methanol (HEET). The key to keeping any water from freezing in your gas tank is to put it in before it in can have a chance to happen. I buy packs of 250ML bottles and poor one in every time I fuel up. Once water has a chance to freeze, you're gonna need a heated garage to drain it.
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Thank you
We used the HEET in the red bottle to fix a snowmobile that had water in the tank from a previous owner. It sat in minus ten degree weather for a day while the HEET worked it's magic. Worked perfectly.
Yes. But the snowmobile we bought already had water in it. A farm kid broke the clear lense on the gas cap and left it outside uncovered. Not a smart thing to do
I only run 90 octane non additive gas in my sleds. They are from late 1980s and 1990's
I use methyl hydrate for water in gas and ice in my fuel system , I live in Canada where it’s below freezing 6 months of the year and it’s a problem I deal with constantly, I enjoy your videos Keep it up 👍
Thank you!
A good fact to remember is alcohol is hydroscopic. So if you put it in your tank as a preventative you could actually be increasing the water in the fuel as the alcohol draws water from the ambient air. Hopefully the gas sitting above the water would slow this reaction down but it still is a factor. Best to use it when needed and run the engine after application for long enough to burn the alcohol and water/fuel mixture up before shutting down. I mention this more for equipment that is left idle for extended periods of time than for a daily driver. As always good video. Like to see the reaction when it goes through fuel pumps and injectors. Take care. Doug
Thank you!
This is complete nonsense.
@doctor some doctors are nonsense
You should try running different liquors in an engine to see which one performs best.
Thanks for the video idea!
i second this
That would be a waste of good booze :)
I bet it would get really bad miles per 1/5th's
I predict no matter the booze the more shots you take before the test the better the engine will seem to run
I'm not gonna lie if I could do anything other than watch your videos I would, you have some of the best content in your genre
Thanks so much!
Jeez I remember watching this channel back when it had 2k subs. Glad to see it's growing so fast, I never really paid attention to the subs until now!
Thank you very much!
All I know is as soon as I get home I am ripping the pull cord thing off my lawnmower and silicone welding a socket to the nut for my cordless impact! Brilliant!!!
Great video.
Thank you
Impressed by the thorough, organized, clean videos & garage. Well done.
Thank you for the feedback
This guy has the perfect voice for infomercials
lol. Thanks
I have always wondered which hand cleaner is best goop, orange ext would love to see a test on it . Love your channel
@@mostmusketboy -- I don't think it's an either/or choice. I like to have both types on hand. The Orange citrus/pumice stuff is good for oily stuff with dirt in it, but for some kinds of oil paints and adhesives I like the Goop/GoJo/Permatex gooey white stuff. (The gooey white stuff can be used to get oil stains out of clothes, too. I don't give a crap about what my work clothes look like, but one time, after getting an oil change by someone else, my drain plug blew out on the way to the wedding. I followed the trail of oil back to the point of the expulsion of the plug on foot and retrieved it, put it in hand tight, walked to a gas station and got 4 quarts, walked back to the car, drove to the gas station where they let me borrow a wrench, and went on my merry way. Some oil stains occurred, however.)
-- There's a third one that I got to try out when I read that it was good for getting rid of poison ivy, Mean Green Power Hand Scrub, and damn it, it worked! It was a horrible case of poison ivy, too, with dime-sized fat blisters on the palms of my hands. The Mean Green was only available online, and its texture is similar to the Orange stuff. I wonder if the orange stuff or the gooey stuff would also work on poison ivy. The toxin in poison ivy is an oil called urushiol. Anyone out there who tried the other cleaners on poison ivy?
If he does an English accent........
@@mostmusketboy snap on soap is absolute gold
A couple of questions:
1) Would Acetone work any better?
2) Would HEET help remove water from a home heating oil tank? (Delivery guy left fill cap off, and I didn't notice until a week with 2 rainy days later)
Thanks for the suggestions.
Don’t use acetone. A very powerful chemical if left to long in the tank can dissolve gaskets and rubber. You would need a lot of Heet in your oil tank. For your vehicle buy the red bottle Heet it has fuel injector cleaner in it. That’s the difference between the yellow and red bottle. There are chemicals that will remove water from your oil tank. Ace Hardware would know.
Would have them come back pump it out and replace with clean fuel oil. You will need to change the filter and purge out the water from line etc , if their delivery guy messed up they should take care of the issue. Also this cant be the first time it has happened so they should have a way to get it done
A few years ago I left my 2000 Ford Mustang sitting out in the freezing cold for a few days without driving it. When I went to start it again, it wouldn't turn over no matter how much I tried. I even ran the battery down trying to start it and had to get a jump to charge it back up again. I put a bottle of HEET in it that evening and let it sit overnight, and when I cranked it the next morning it started right up and blew out a huge cloud of white vapor from the tailpipe. The stuff really works.
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the information. I live in Alaska and I normally use Heet in all my vehicles. On a 50 below zero day about thirty years ago, adding multiple bottles of Heet to the gas tank allowed me to get my wife's van home and into our warm garage. When filling your gas tank at the gas station, it is best to avoid doing so right after a tanker truck has dropped a load of gasoline into the below ground tanks. Water can collect in the bottom of these tanks and possibly get stirred up and pumped into your car gas tank. This is what happened to my wife.
Thank you for the feedback
Thanks, That's good to know.
Wow, the work you put into your videos is amazing! Heet has always been my "go to" winter additive but thanks for the information! Really well done.
Thank you!
Love your videos, yours are much better than anything on youtube for testing products and you get alot done in a short amount of time, unlike alot of other channels that have alot of BS. Thank You!
My wife got REALLY bad gas in her 2018 Mazda CX-9 (Turbo 2.5L that prefers premium gas).
We tried seafoam & it did nothing.
HEET helped noticeably, but still needed a couple 1/2 tanks with HEET before it cleaned it up.
Finally, we used engine top end cleaner sprayed into the intake, after the MAF, to finish cleaning out the engine as it is direct injected.
Now it runs better than when we bought it! We bought it used with over 80k miles on it & now it's close to 90k.
I imagine the water from the bad gas, then seafoam, then HEET, then top end cleaner ultimately did a pretty significant cleaning of the engine.
Thanks for sharing.
Your videos make me happy. Don’t know why
Thank you
I’ve been waiting for this test that you did. I really appreciate your effort
Thank you!
None of them remove water they just make it disperse in the fuel evenly. I can say living in Wisconsin, I have never had an issues with water in fuel.
Great point! Thank you
It’s typically only really an issue when fuel sits for a long time. Especially I powersports and older vehicles with a vent as heating and cooling cycles draw in air and then moisture ends up in the tank over time. It can also be an issue if you get fuel from a station that water got into the tank from poor drainage. I haul fuel for a living and it can definitely happen. Especially if ice dams up and forces water into the drop area.
And you probably won't so long as they continue to add ethanol into the fuel, which acts exactly like Heet.
Before the ethanol mandate, water in fuel systems was a problem. That all went away in the 80's when ethanol started to become a popular oxygenator.
I've only gotten water in my fuel because the gastation had broken storage tanks. What tipped me off was the slow flowing gas pump
Did you watch the video? The mixtures never dispersed into the fuel. They stayed separate.
I'm always astonished at what a gas engine will actually run on if needed in an emergency. Truly amazing!
Thank you!
There is a product made by Starbrite which is called Star-tron which is a amazing product! Great for old stale gas; also ethanol gas and is a stabilizer!!! You can find it in Walmart and the Marine section.
Thanks for the video idea!
+1 for the Star Tron, it's also very useful at absorbing the ethanol in today's fuels to make it safer to run in my motorcycles, lawn & garden engines, anything with a carburetor.
Startron in all my OPE, looks like a blue sports drink but works great even in old stale fuel. I believe it is actually an enzyme based product.
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Yes it is a enzyme. The other benefit is that it does eliminate water in your fuel system!!!
+1 Startron
Hey! I have thought about this video idea for a week! So What you should test is make a Showdown of hand cleaners such as Fast Orange and other premium brands and see if there is a difference between premium and "cheap" hand sanitizers! So, what do you think of my idea? Ty for the Terrific Content!
This is a great video idea! Thank you!
@Game Bred Duramax yeah
To the list of cleaners I would add lye soap with pumice if you can find it.
Believe it or not but I stopped using fast orange, laundry soap has been my go to hand cleaner for years...grandad showed me been doing it that way ever since
Yea I use fast or age for cleaning after working on cars and it seems to work but how well idk I still end up with oil and grease in the pours and they just don’t go away it’s days before it’s cleaned up.
A test I would like to see is the Lucas oil additive. In stores there are test items with little gears and a wheel you can turn. I wonder what the oil mixture looks like at 20 below?
dont do it. it gets thick as molasses and can blow right past rings possibly clogging your catalyst. been there done that.
@@mem3656 if it gets thick how did it get past the piston rings, that makes no sense?
@@jonathangarzon2798 it probably didn't burn off like engine oil, and fouled the converter. I have a 350 chevy with oil control issues, and thats what straight 40 weight will do. It will burn 15/40, but straight 40 will give me a wet oily plug on the problem cylinders.
Just use motorkote
The key is to use these product before the water has a chance to freeze or solidify. Most, (if not all) automotive fuel systems today use a recirculatory system. When the system is on excess fuel is returned to the fuel tank which keeps it stirred up which aides in removing undesirable liquid content. (and also controlls the temp)
Refueling stations are required to monitor and record water levels in thier tanks. Once a certain level is reach they are required to remove enough to bring it back into compliance. They also have electronic water detection systems now which sets off an alarm.
I have an inground fuel oil tank at home which I monitor with a graduated stick. I apply water detection paste to the lower portion. This paste changes color to indicate the presents of water if any and the level. This is the way gas stations used to do it (and may still) and delivery drivers still do.
Pick up (or suction line/tubes) are installed so it can never reach the bottom of the tank.
How about adding some boric acid to the fuel tank of the engine with the clear head to see if the combustion is green!
Thanks for the video idea!
ive done this before on my predator engine. You must use methanol as a fuel. Doesnt take much powder . Also, your carburetor WILL need a teardown after it cools. It will form a white residue inside AND outside of it.
@@UnTamedMustang Is the Predator a Polaris engine by any chance?
@@carcrxsh its the motor he uses in every video.
@@UnTamedMustang Oh right yeah
Hi I love watching your videos as they are very informative, you take a lot of care and go into a lot of detail when producing them. I just watched this video and actually tried out an additive yesterday that dissolves water in gasoline, diesel and helps burn fuel through with no problem its called Fuel doctor by Castrol. i was first very sceptic about it and tried it out in a glass jar at home and a little water remained at the bottom but when i added a little more of the additive the water completely mixed into the fuel.
Thanks for sharing.
Up here in Canada winter time gas line freezing was a problem in the coldest weather and to prevent this we did two things:
1. Keep the gas tank full of gas because condensation forms from the air against the inside surface of the empty part of the gas tank. There's not a lot of moisture in the cold air but in a largely empty gas tank it can still produce a nice frost coating inside.
2. Add gas line antifreeze (pure methanol in this area) when you fill up your gas tank. The warm gasoline from underground storage tanks melts the frost in the tank turning it temporarily into water and which being denser than the gas would sink to the bottom of the tank and get sucked into the fuel line where it would freeze again causing frozen gas line - if not for the fact that while in a water state the methanol mixes with it and prevents freezing. The methanol/water mixture then burns safely off in the engine. I know someone is going to point out that methanol is very corrosive in fuel systems but the amount being added - an ounce or two I believe was insignificant in a tank full of gas.
The need to add the methanol antifreeze was eliminated when ethanol gas became mandatory because ethanol performs the same function as the methanol did.
Great tips! Thank you
Fuel tanks do draw in outside air. Otherwise they would be under vacuum and stall the engine at some point. From my own non-scientific testing it's crucial to have the right materials with Methanol, i.e storage containers which might start to leak within a day if things are really bad.
Never use methanol, it is a real-real poison! You breath it in inside the car from the gas tank. Isopropyl alcohol, yes!
Not methanol. Its methyl hydrate.
I replaced a new fuel pump the previous owner had replaced in a dirty Tahoe tank, in the coldest part of winter in my driveway. Phase separation was evident in a clear 2 liter bottle. Water, slushwater/alcohol mix & cloudy fuel clearly in 3 layers. Particulate present too.
Thanks for sharing.
The methanol/ethanol will lower the freezing point of water if it's already mixed in, but once the ice is frozen adding alcohol won't help much, since the ice is solid and the alcohol can't really penetrate and mix with it. It might work very slowly by eating away at the surface, and agitating the mixture would definitely help, but generally speaking it's no good.
Something i'd be interested in seeing is adding artificial alcohol-based sweeteners to the fuel, particularly ethanol blends.
Another interesting thing to see would be emulsified fuel mixes. It could open up a whole new world of strange blends!
Great point! Thank you
But its called HEET!!! no Im just funnin yes it lowers the freezing point. Ever wonder why good Shine don't freeze?
Dick Nickler True, but this is how salt works on road ice - contacts, melts, dilutes, evaporates (and unfortunately drains).
Sure, adding salt, sugar or anything else that'd lower the melting point will help to some degree, especially if there's already a bit of water on the surface so it can start mixing, but you'd need a hell of a lot of salt to melt ice of any significant thickness. It's best for thin sheets or patchy road ice since like you said it does drain away, and you need a lot of it.
As usual, extremely informative! I always wondered about using 91% isopropyl alcohol, or heet. Thanks!
Thank you very much!
I was at Lowe's Depot in the paint aisle , and had an Idea ..... Why not try Mineral spirits , paint thinner , naptha , xylene , toluene , denatured alcohol , paint stripper ect as fuel and as an additive to fuel for cleaning cylinder head . I think toluene was used as a anti knock additive a while ago .
Thanks for the video idea!
Mineral spirits wouldn't be a great fuel, but it's the main ingredient in diesel fuel additives.
Paint thinner is mineral spirits.
Naphtha is low-test gasoline.
Xylene and toluene are both used as octane boosters. Probably not so good as straight fuel.
Denatured alcohol: No problem.
Most paint stripper isn't flammable, so don't use that in your gasoline.
Most of that is the same as seafoam, berrymans etc. Xylene toluene and isopropyl alcohol. So t e only benefit to using mineral spirits in a test is to see if it's better or worse than seafoam
Lowe's Depot? 🤔
Ethanol is denatured alcohol.
I have an outboard suspected to be contaminated with water. Only starts with full choke and dies. Thank you for the highly detailed video. I know so much more about how engines work.
You are welcome! Glad to hear!
Curious to why you did not test Sta-Bil, Sta Bil Marine or Star Brite Star Tron? I have used Sta-Bil for many years and it has seemed to do the job.
Great point. I'll have to test those soon. Thanks again.
Stabil is to reduce oxidation not couple with water.
@@ProjectFarm seriously Sta-Bil is the most widely used product around for this purpose
@@Avboden Stabil is the most widely used to preserve the fuel octane level not remove water. HEET is by far the most popular for that.
Recommend that you read the label and see this statement on their site: sta-bil.co.uk/
Hello Todd, thank you very much for this great video. I always wondered what would happen if one put isopropyl alcohol into an engine and now I know. One thing to be mentioned, is the price of a bottle of leading brand gas treatments vs that of drug store alcohol.
I appreciate the work that you do on these products. I am curious if the fuel stabilizers work any better. I have used HEET for many years for potential water (in my mind), and had good luck with it. I completely forgot about the Ethanol issue adding to the "problem".
I don't know if you've ever done a test on sludge removers used before a car oil change. I don't know how you'd test. Looks the Lawn Mower will get another workout unless you can get volunteers to run a can through their car prior to an oil change.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Just wanted to say, I really enjoy your content and am happy to of found your channel!
That Mountain track feels like it was designed for this channel. Fits perfect.
Thanks for the feedback.
I wonder how many spark plugs you go through yearly.
lol. I can't keep count. A lot of them.
Lol
Thankfully they're dirt cheap
easily 30-40 liters of them
Yea I bet the auto parts store loves him. Todd should save them in a 5 gallon bucket and see how long it takes till it's full.
MAN O MAN...you never disappoint with your reviews/comparisons. During a review video I'll say to myself, yes out loud sometimes....... I'd do this as well.....WELL YOU DO IT!! Truly a work of art. Thank you!!
I donated I hope others do as well. You certainly deserve the funding. Thanks again.
Thank you very much!
Can you try using gear oil as engine oil to see wether it stop smoking on a worn engine
Thanks for the video idea!
Dan, you just reminded me of putting sawdust in the rear end to stop the whining..
(That didn't quite sound right did it).. Lol.
it doesn't, and the exhaust ends up stinking like onions and arm pit! been there before, haha.
When my dad got out of the Navy in 1963, he was picked up while hitchhiking by a guy who had the gas station attendant (those were the days!) dump gear oil into his engine. He had a really bad leak, and the gear oil slowed it down. My dad was laughing. The guy says, "It works great, so long as I don't shut the engine off below 60°F". 😂 Every time they stopped, he'd let the car idle out on the parking lot, never shutting it down.
If you're looking at the weight, 90 weight gear oil is the same as 40 weight engine oil. The number is only different between a gear box and crankcase application.
Great video as always. I was wondering if you could test and see if raw eggs would work as engine oil. They probably won't but I was just thinking this morning, raw eggs are very viscous and therefore they might work well.
lol. Thanks for the video idea!
Eggs used as oil will burn inside of engine and make it halt completly, just as it was with honey as oil.
Raw eggs may be viscous, but I don't think they're a lubricant.
and clean the engine before the test, so that afterward scrambled eggs are on the menu!!! Then feed them to mice to see if they are toxic?
In my kitchen at about 200 degrees F the liquid eggs turn into completely cooked eggs - the only liquid then is the cooking oil or butter they were cooked in.
This is one of my favorite channels ever even though its not about guns. Kinda the nutnfancy channel of tools
Thank you!
Nutnfancy video would be 30 minutes and boring. This moves fast without excessive talking.
Taofledermaus > nutnfancy
Terry Waters, ya. Could you imagine if project farm spent 1/2 hour describing his POU on each product.
Ha. But yes who doesn't like nutn
I like these videos, l have been in the boating world for over 40 yrs. Water in gas is common and eats up aluminum in carb bowels. We use the red bottle heet after removing the water with a suction tube into the tank and removing water from the BOTTOM of the tank. You might inform people that carb cleaning is a must after water has entered the carbs and fuel pumps. Unfortunatly the Lazy guy just adding these products to get a motor to run, end up with burned pistons in two stroke motors.!!
Thank you for the feedback
How about testing products to keep diesel fuel from gelling up
Great video idea!
I use Optilube Winter.
A lot of folks around here use Power Service.
Our snowcat fuel is 25% no1 and 75% no2 diesel.
Good down to minus 20 where it just begins to cloud.
Diesel fuel in Canada has gasoline added up to 10% to prevent gelling.
@@cleaner10399 No they don't.
Kerosene is added.
Gasoline in NEVER added to diesel deliberately.
Read up on Number 1 diesel.
Number 2 diesel.
And Parrafin.
Plenty of resources.
Do NOT put gasoline into diesel EVER for any reason.
Opti lube xpd has been my go to product year round here in vermont. My 2014 duramax starts with no problem, evan at -12F
Great content sir. I work in research myself and commend your protocols on your trials! You do a really good job. Thanks for always posting great research based info!
Thank you
I worked in R&D and applaud this scientific approach. Advanced research can get real crazy with experimental mixture designs that use computers to evaluate for correlation coefficients between multiple variables (say acetone + ethanol+ isopropyl alcohol). We use to say the computer can tell us what tail (variable) was wagging witch dog (out put response).
I use H2O as add-on to my organic body engine and I never had any issues.
Thank you
I prefer bud light it runs alot smoother
@@bradg8682 Much higher rate of consumption, though, resulting in increased need for oil changes. Also, makes the exhaust much worse.
Dark GT ya this guy lives in California 🙄
Yeah Hho , browns gas.. do one video for us on HHO
I’ve used Sea Foam for years, to take a miss out of a sticking fuel injector. Works every time!
Thanks for the feedback.
I love all sort of oils and lubes, your channel is the best for all my wet needs. 💕
Thank you!
Do this same test with diesel supplements and anti gelling
Thanks for the video idea!
That's crazy a multimillion dollar company (SeaFoam) with it's countless of Engineers can't do a simple test like Project Farm... Seafoam please hire PF and sign him to a multimillion dollar contract he deserves it!
Heet is 1 of the best gas treatments out there! I run it in all my vehicles during the winter, my dad got me started on it and I stand by it!
Thanks for the feedback.
@@ProjectFarm awesome channel by the way! Forgot to add that, been looking for a old ranger like your truck, but they are hard to find in pa
Please do something involving HEET red vs. yellow! Thank you!
Thank you for the video idea!
Red is pretty much just isoporplyn alcohol.
@@t-bfr45-70 is the red 100% iso alcohol? Is it better using 99% iso alcohol? Is 91% ok?
@@whatthe2458 no red is not 100% and is more than likely a lie. I believe it's a pretty hi grade you can us 90% and up if remember right for water remove because how it mixes if just wanted to buy isopropyl alcohol. More then likely they start with 99% and then add little oil and other chemicals to add a little cleaning power and make people feel happy so when buy iso heat probably like 80% alcohol but all a guess.
@@t-bfr45-70 thank you
I wish you had included IsoHeet in your test. I think that it is 100% dry isopropanol. In the red bottles. The drug store isopropanol you tested already had 9% water in it. You can also get dry isopropanol in the solvents section of your hardware store.
Thank you for the feedback
The IsoHeet in the red bottles will not work near as good as the Heet in the yellow bottle. I have tried them both by putting them in a glass of snow and I won't even waste my money on the red bottles. Living in Alaska I always have a bottle of Heet in every vehicle.
@@stevejames875 but that is snow or frozen water. maybe it is good on liquid water.
Should compare adhesive removers eventually 👍
I need to get that one going soon. Thank you
If you want to remove a price sticker, a decal or a postage stamp, etc., and put it somewhere else, heptane temporarily neutralizes common adhesives and lets you remove the sticker or decal in one piece. After a few minutes the solvent evaporates and the stickiness of the adhesive returns. Some decals will say “Void” if you remove them - not if you carefully use heptane. It also doesn’t leave stains or watermarks when it dries. Pure heptane is commonly available as rubber cement solvent available in art supply and hobby stores everywhere, and from online sellers. A high performance version of this product is available under the trade name Un-Du, which comes in an applicator bottle with a handy plastic scraper to help lift stickers off the surface. It also has helpful instructions.
99% isopropyl alcohol is helpful in removing stickers and adhesive residue. The higher the percentage of pure alcohol, the better it works. Note that 100% pure isopropyl alcohol does not exist in a commercially available product, and may not exist anywhere outside of a research laboratory. Amazon has a great selection of the 99% version. Buy it in smaller bottles (such as 16 oz.) so that you minimize the risk of contaminating your supply if you make a mistake.
Steam works well .
Used heet once in 98 or 99 in my first car when water in the fuel pump pickups (I think), froze. Fired up after about 2 hours of heet treatment in the tank... great vid once again!
Thanks so much!