Intake clean. WOW!

[Gmcant33]

As in BG cleaning products or catch can? If cleaning product, well the CRC was just a few miles down the road at Autozone (very handy) and it seems to be getting good reviews. I'll certainly throw my hat in that ring as it certainly worked well, results were immediately obvious from the moment I cranked her back up.

 

The purpose of the post wasn't to tout CRC. I could care less so long as it worked. My point was to share my experience with intake valve cleaning and the benefits therein.

I meant the cleaning product and glad to hear your expericen work out was the price expensive

[bdbake01]

I meant the cleaning product and glad to hear your expericen work out was the price expensive

I think it was $10.99 w/ a $5 mail in rebate. Bang for buck = off the charts.

[darkfox1]

Whats the process here?

 

My 5.3 has 31k miles on it. I haven't even looked at the air filter. (I bought it with 25k on it..)

 

Seems like fuel economy is down about 1mpg but that could just be winter gas? I drive the hell out of it and use junk gas (87 octane) so I can only imagine what mine looks like right about now.

[nadrojcote]

Whats the process here?

 

My 5.3 has 31k miles on it. I haven't even looked at the air filter. (I bought it with 25k on it..)

 

Seems like fuel economy is down about 1mpg but that could just be winter gas? I drive the hell out of it and use junk gas (87 octane) so I can only imagine what mine looks like right about now.

you should definitely change your filter. Might as well get a better drop in like a k&n, clean your throttle body with carb cleaner and put a can of CRC or seafoam through it.

[fondupot]

I just did my truck with seafoam. I can't tell a huge difference yet, but we will see over time. Used my window scraper to keep the rpm around 2000.

 

 

 

 

INGENIUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

totally gonna try this. lol

[bdbake01]

yep, gotta admit the scraper is genius. Probably more reliable than the wife. DEFINITELY less mouthy about the situation.

[bdbake01]

Ok, so on my usual commute this morning I reset the DIC trip A. Now, over the last few weeks I've been watching it close. It's almost all interstate, but there's a LOT of construction going on so every day it's about half cruise @ 70, and half stop and go. I'll admit this morning things went pretty smooth without a ton of stop and go, but the last 2 miles definitely took 10 mins or so. Anyway, I've been clocking in around 17.5 to 18.5 mpg pretty consistently which I at least partially attributed to winter gas. Seems I was wrong!!!

 

 

[darkfox1]

Holy crap this is on a 6.2??

 

I have a 5.3 with 3.08s and the highest I get even on a 3 hour interstate drive cruise controlled upper 70s is 20mpg! Even if I reset the trip once I'm on the interstate and cruise is set.

 

Lowest was 16.. I was driving into the wind apparently. Average for me (mostly interstate and higher speed rural roads) is low 18s.

[nadrojcote]

Wind kills these trucks, a soft tonneau helped a fair bit for me.

[bdbake01]

Holy crap this is on a 6.2??

 

I have a 5.3 with 3.08s and the highest I get even on a 3 hour interstate drive cruise controlled upper 70s is 20mpg! Even if I reset the trip once I'm on the interstate and cruise is set.

 

Lowest was 16.. I was driving into the wind apparently. Average for me (mostly interstate and higher speed rural roads) is low 18s.

 

Yep. My 50 mi best is 23.4. If I set the cruise at 55/60, I'm pretty convinced I could clock off around 25mpg on a 50 mile stretch easily.

Wind kills these trucks, a soft tonneau helped a fair bit for me.

 

Wind, and at least for me, anything >65 mph. Hard to keep it in V4 at those speeds. This morning I was driving west into a mild headwind. Nothing to write home about.

[darkfox1]

Just picked up the CRC stuff. Yup.. $10 with a $5 rebate card.

 

Now to find a broom or something to stand on the gas pedal for a few minutes..

[Gmcant33]

Keeps us updated dark fox

[darkfox1]

I've got a TON of driving to do this week (120 miles wed. 165 Thursday) and potentially 300 this weekend, so, if I can get this in before I go that'll be nice to get some benchmarks.

 

I kinda wish now I'd have bought some TB cleaner too. I think I'm out in the shop. I figure it'd be a good idea to make sure the TB isn't gunked up on the back side like the 99-06s used to do before I start. I may have some brake cleaner. Ya think that's a bad idea on these new DBW/sensor filled TBs?

 

Hrmm.. just realized I don't have a u shaped hose like that either.

[nadrojcote]

You could probably just use a little of the CRC to clean it.

[darkfox1]

 

Now I feel dumb.

 

 

Ya, I'll probably take it out this afternoon and see what I find out. I'll take some pics too.