How To Use Archoil's Diesel Fuel System Kit

In this video, I discuss how to use Archoil's Diesel Fuel System Kit. This kit contains AR6500 and AR6400-D. It works for all diesel engines including Power Stroke, Cummins, Duramax, and Mercedes.
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[@powerstrokemaintenance]

Archoil's official dosage guidance on AR6400-D is to run one bottle for up to 40 gallons. So if you have an oversized tank, and don't want to buy two bottles, you can fill your tank part way and then add the bottle. However there are no negative side effects of running more treatment as I mentioned in the video. I don't like doing a partial fill up so I run two bottles at a time. Cheers!

[@pakman8680]

The previous owner of my sprinter didn't use this and the intakes are full of gunk. Will this clean it up or should I first disassemble , clean up then use this?

[@powerstrokemaintenance]

Disassemble and clean the intakes first then use this. Unfortunately it won’t remove excessive carbon build up

[@nknaakco3966]

@@powerstrokemaintenance agree with this, had to manually clean on my 6.7 ps (tons of soaking and shop towels), I got back into it afterwards and looked better after running Archoil, big fan of this stuff!

[@powerstrokemaintenance]

Glad to hear it!

[@juancarlosgonzalez9603]

How does the 6400 reach the turbo?

[@FlatPlaneCranky]

Do you know how a turbo works?

[@powerstrokemaintenance]

Archoils chemistry will survive the combustion process and reach the turbo through the exhaust

[@juancarlosgonzalez9603]

@@powerstrokemaintenancewas thinking intake side thanks

[@pat9125]

what is it...other than seat of your pant subjective opinion, that makes this any different or better than Hotshots? Is it the financial incentive? I'm genuinely curious. I personally belive that Archoil, stanadyne, hotshots and others are all about equal and price per treatment is the determinator. Curious about the sciene/chemicals objective reasoning for pushing Archoil. I'm a huge believer in Diesel additive for injector cleaning, cetane, corrosion, water, lubricity and fuel stabilization. No product wil "clean" the DPF but better burning of the fuel will reduce regens thus keeping it cleaner. ASTM 3rd party test results is easier to find on Hotshots than it is Archoil so any information you have would be most helpful

[@powerstrokemaintenance]

You are right this content is primarily subjective on my channel. To be honest I tried hotshots and some of the other products you mentioned, but my miles between regenerations went down. And I disagree products can clean the DPF, fuel gets injected during a regen and there are small amounts of additive that will survive the combustion process. Outside of that, what initial drew me to Archoil was that they have almost thousands reviews on Amazon with people who have fixed DPF CEL and fault codes using their product. However I will consider if there’s a way provide more objective information. Thanks for the comment!

[@pat9125]

@@powerstrokemaintenance Plenty of people report curing CEL and DPF codes and reduced regen with Hotshots as well. Some people swear their truck runs much better and starts much better with Hotshots after using Archoil. Some swear Hotshots improves MPG 2-5mpg some swear Archoil does. It's all subjective. I think both products are good. DPF is only cleaned through burning off soot at high temperature. If there was a chemical that would do it you and I both know it would be the #1 best seller and would be a standalone product. The efficient burning of fuel will reduce number of regens and this is done mainly through cetane and oxidizer boost. Nothing remaining in the fuel is "cleaning" the DPF. If you know differently please share. The only chemical I know of is in Peak Platinum DEF that reduces the SCR buildup but the DEF filter itself relies on heat to burn off the soot and the remaining ash is what clogs the filter over time and there is no chemical that eliminates the ash. Again, if you know differently please share. The main things required in a diesel additive are present in both Archoil and Hotshot. Hotshots publishes test results for their ASTM testing and against other products but not against Archoil. Archoil doesn't publish much testing. Should tell you something about both products. I think because fuel additive is a preventative measure it's really hard to get objective test results. I love your content and I strive to be as fastidious about maintenance as you...not sure about extended oil changes though, watching that content closely :) P.S I don't blame you for pushing Archoil to make a few bucks but it would be helpful to the masses if you talked a little about the high level science/reasons for using it. So many people think it's about buying good fuel and have no idea about the injection cleaning, fuel stabilization, corrosion inhibitors, cetane boost, libricity. The fuel we get is not good. The government standards for DIesel cetane is 45 and it's pretty well known that at least 50 is recommended and that's where an additive can really help level out the playing field. Even from the same station the fuel will differ from tank to tank and additives help fill in the gaps even if people buy "good" fuel even if it's only for the injection cleaning. I admit proving it works is really hard but there is science behind cetane boost and injection cleaner chemicals not to mention the other chemicals. other than ASTM standards testing you'd almost have to run two engines for 10k miles exactly the same way then tear em down...LOL...make that 3. 1 as a control one with Hotshots one with Archoil...just for starters :)

[@powerstrokemaintenance]

Those are good points. It sounds like you value the data from testing over subjective content, which is smart. Perhaps I can devise a test given that I have my OCR turned on, and run hotshots and Archoil through my tank and measure the number of miles between regens and film a video on that, but that would be subjective and specific to how I drive my truck so I wouldn’t be able to make any pronouncements that would apply to everyone. It seems like so much automotive ends subjective.

[@pat9125]

@@powerstrokemaintenance Definitely a data driven guy. Never been a brand loyalist about anything. That's one of the reasons I love your oil analysis testing. Most people just put in whatever without regard to actual data. You do things the right way imho. As far as the regen frequency, My truck is a 24 and I had ARod try to set OCR on and it's not available in the 24s...I assume the 23s as well. I have the banks dual pod installed and am able to control the pedalmonster and monitor regen and other stuff on the datamonster and supergauge. One intersting thing those gauges give me is miles since last regen. If yours has that it might be an easy datapoint to report on. I use one gauge set to monitor EGTs when towing, Regen status and other stuff while the other is pedalmonster, HP, TQ MAF AAT and other performance stuff. Combined with the gauges already part of the dash I stay pretty well informed on how the truck is doing under various conditions.

[@powerstrokemaintenance]

@pat9125 that sounds like an elite setup for getting great data on your truck!