Which Diesel Anti-Gel Additive is Best? Power Service Diesel, Howes, Hot Shots, Stanadyne 

I'd like to see a test on John Deere fuel conditioner. Used to be made by stanadyne but they switched, interested to see the results of new stuff.

Do you think mixing the additives in the recommended concentration to #2 diesel fuel would impact the results at all (Vs. stand alone testing of each substance)?

I would like to see Optilube products tested. It is supposed to be a good diesel fuel lubricant.

Another request for testing Opti-lube XPD against Hot Shot’s Secret EDT, thank you!

Archoil I've not seen any hard testing on it like you do .

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Yeah, that was pretty perfect

Lol!! For sure

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I work there as well, pretty close to DC35 in Boston. Im sending this video to everyone in our work group chat lol.

Oreilly's is my man cave away from home AND they always have my Stanadyne in stock.

I like project farm, I do, the comparisons he does do give a lot of useful insight but we still have to use our critical thinking with this stuff and also realize there are whole physics and chemistry specialties dedicated to understanding how stuff performs in given ways. Like… the diesel 911, it’s not an antigel product it’s designed to be used AFTER youre having problems with water and ice in your fuel… meaning it’s likely isopropyl alcohol based… so it “bonds” with the water and puts in in solution to be gotten rid of. All diesel fuel has water in it… it’s a question of how the water is mixed in…. So you can’t judge all of this solely based on the testing done here. Also… you can get isopropyl alcohol cheaper at Walmart in the pharmacy. And you can have an alcohol solution that in a bottle won’t freeze at very cool temps… but add in some water (aka put the additive in the fuel that has water) and suddenly it’s frozen at a much milder temp. All I’m saying is take this stuff with a grain of salt and do proper research to understand the full extent of the processes involved when asking a liquid mix of chemicals to do big jobs. Follow the directions on the bottles, contact the people that make the stuff… look up the msds to see if it lists the actual ingredients so you can understand what something really does. Bobistheoilguy is a good place to start as far as non peer reviewed stuff… but again you are your own warranty in this world so I always try to actually understand further and check as many sources as i can within the timeframe involved. And there are some circumstances where dumping some random snake oil or even something fine in one motor in your fuel can cost you thousands dependent on the machine.

I work for O’Reillys as well at 1554. I watched this video because I’ve never owned a diesel and want to see what worked best

Thanks for the suggestions.

This is a great suggestion but until the video comes out I suggest using hotshot secret diesel fuel additive. It is very recommended and talked about in the diesel community as the best diesel additive for keeping your diesel running smoothly

@@ProjectFarm Please include european diesel additives to next test. Thank you for your great effort and honesty

Please include Wynns diesel fuel treatment and Liqui Moly treatment. Thanks for your time and effort in making these videos!

After getting a duramax I've been seeing almost everyone recommend Hot shots and or power service

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@@ProjectFarm But did you use 3M duct tape? LOL 12:29

He looks like he is going to be cooking meth in it soon. Which round flask is best? Let's do some testing!

Call it Death Proof.

Just mix a bit petrol to the diesel in the winter, works also.

"How well does diesel additive do under 12 lbs of boost?"

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I'm at 16 years with my VW 1.9 ALH TDI using Stanadyne. Zero issues thus far - I add it to every tank full regardless of the weather.

I'm retired from GM now as a master diesel tech....stanadyne was always used where I worked...from the 6.5 to the duramax arrival and never had any issues Now granted I live in Southern California and we don't have that cold a weather here...but overall stanadyne was always used at our dealership

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Project Farm maybe you should call it Heisenberg?

In Breaking Bad Jesse calls the RV the "Crystal Ship"

AJ Maybe “the uncertainty principle” would be more apt for Project Farm, or “Heisenberg’s knocker”

Is that the same rv that was on national Lampoon's Christmas vacation?

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I hope this video helps you! It's already helped me get ready for winter

Get f-10 it Cleans all water out of diesel

If your diesel looks like any of this at that temperature, your engine won't be running long...

@Earl James I've jelled on howes a couple times... some people run coarse fuel filters and won't have much trouble. I've always run the oem recommend filters that are normally @5 micron or less

@Evermore, I use one entire bottle of Howes per tank, 300 total capacity. It's worked well, now I just run the APU and it powers the fuel heater, so I don't even stress any more while I am home and truck is parked.

Awesome!! Glad you liked it!

No doubt. Hollywood is gonna swipe that!!

I was ROLLING from that, hands down lmao

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That overhead camera angle was pretty great. It definitely looked like some Hollywood stuff! Keep up the informative and entertaining work!

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More integrity than the Commander-In-Chief.

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Saxie81 same here

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He does a great job at these videos!!! Whats better is he responds to you on a text. But hes dang awesome

I was thinking “ the Roach” because it looks so beaten down and reached out, either that or “rot row” because those rev were built with such a large quantity of wood products that they rotted away, and that land barge will never be the same or water tight!

Buy winterized diesel fuel from your fuel station, and you shouldn't have any problems.

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The Technicals it had me dying too 😂😂😂😂 I like this name

Winning

YES!

Not only name it that, but go through and fix everything needed to make it an actual roadworthy coast to coast roadtrip & camping machine, doin as much as possible to fix and/or customize it with J.B. Weld, and duct tape! Maybe get in touch with Red Green, and take it up to possum lodge! :)

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Ty. Say it louder for the folks in the back!

Yep. Ran a service truck in the mid west and 911 works great at breaking the gelled fuel back down for a short time in the cold, but adding it before does absolutely nothing.

Another point to make is the other anti-gels will not reliquify gelled fuel, they will only prevent it.

We had a school district that blended 911 in their diesel tanks as their normal antigel. They had 50+ buses. They did it for years and claimed it worked. I told them they were doing it wrong.

i have been driving the same sterling diesel box truck for 10 years and the only thing i use here in north dakota for anti gelling is 911. my fuel has never gelled up, not once. saying it's not preventative is 100% false. we have -30 or worse every winter. and i use sams club shit diesel on top of that, not that expensive full on winter blend stuff.

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Hi Jeff!

sure does sound like it

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Yeah I used to make jokes about amazon oil but after watching this mans videos I’d trust amazon basic oil unless you are gonna be building a track/drag car ; it’s almost literally Mobil 1 performance wise

Brady Arnold only problem with amazon oil is since they only use the brand name and don’t make their own oil, they could change the oil supplier in the future and you’d never know

@@Yyote Yep, they've already done that with at least one of the products offered under the Basics label. 3d printing filament changed brands late 2019 - early 2020, and I'm sure that there are others. Only those paying attention will notice the changes, as they don't advertise it.

I’d like to see the PS DieselKleen tested at full dose, rather than half-dose. Or if it was, I’d like it to be specified what the dosing is - the Hotshots has 1 dosing option - 1 ounce per 8 gallons. The PS has 2 dosing options, and 3 formulations - the 1:400, 1:1000, and 1:1500 options. So, if we were using, for example, the 80 oz packaging, at 250 gallons, versus the below 0 option of 125 gallons, it’s literally 2x the dosing. So I expect the results to be significantly different depending on the dosing! And we are never told which dosing he uses. We aren’t told if the packaging was a 1:400 or 1:1000 mix option. I’m not as familiar with the others, but at least tell us what version, what dosing! That’s what Science is about!

You are correct. That stuff will dry out your fuel system, but it will wreck a set of injectors in a hurry if no lubricant additive is put in the fuel along with it.

The 911 is in case it's already Frozen up to free it up as you saw it work on the untreated diesel. It's not a diesel additive to be used all the time because it will measure engine up.

@@wyattblackwood3927 "mess your engine up". Damned autocorrect!

Yep I was just in Colorado during this cold blast and i had to get the grey bottle and the red 911 bottle and the 911 specifically says will not prevent gelling

Thanks for sharing.

The white bottle is a preventative, pink for after jelling has already occurred

I've been telling my boss this for years but it doesn't seem to sink in.

Yeah my first thought. You can't compare them in the same test as 911 doesn't claim to be an additive of any kind. It's really an emergency thing you use when it's too late and it has a few competitors as well that don't claim to be additives either. The supplement did what it claimed to do like Howes at preventing gelling.

I said the same thing John, guys I work with don't seem to understand that either.

Correct

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Thanks for the video idea.

Opti-lube is hands down the best. Would be a good test subject.

I like big blocks and I can not lie

Sounds like exhaust leaks rather than actual engine knocking

Keep us all posted how you like it!

I used to think 911 was good for anti gel but hot shot for me from now on

Happy Hobo to be fair, the 911 is for emergencies, the regular white bottle is for everyday cold weather use

Same here

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cobannie yes 🤣

Or "Eddie"

It won't let me like this comment but this needs to be the name!! MERRY CHRISTMAS, SHITTER WAS FULL!

No kidding, one winter someone decorated their lawn like the Griswolds and they even had a 91 - 96 GM Station Wagon with a plate saying "SHTRSFL" or something like that. This was around Pittsburgh, maybe in 2014. Do a web search and you'll find it, surely.

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Great test, thanks! Please add those and test archoil as well please. I switched for stanadine to archoil last year.

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Man, you beat me by a whole year. I was scrolling through to see if it had been mentioned. I believe PF may have achieved ludicrous speed.

My box of All in One arrived last week. I typically use Stanadyne, but thought I'd give the Amsoil additive a try since I begin using their diesel oil.

I use the cetane boost and fuel system cleaner from Amsoil on my 1981 Mercedes 240d diesel along with the Amsoil European 5w-40 Classic in my car and it runs like a charm.

@@mikez377 Are you using All in One with Amsoil diesel oil? What fuel mileage is it giving you? Are you running a pickup or 18 wheeler tractor?

@@thisismagacountry1318 I use both in my 03 duramax and its the best

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Yep. My 2016 3.0L runs like a top. Have gotten over 38 mpg on occasion.

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Thanks so much, will do!

I totally agree on that, it looks similar to the Breaking Bad vehicle, and doing "chemistry" in the same form would be fitting!

Yep Walter is great!!

Walter is great. I was thinking something like “Heisenberg’s kitchen” but Walter is so much more understated. It’s perfect

I 4th this name

Walter works on another level as well. Jeff Dunham's Walter puppet is a curmudgeonly old man whose temperament fits perfectly with the RV.

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this is the best name!

I second this!

454 is a dam good and realiable engine

Love that name!

@@velezdragon3574 as long as it is in something light.

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Beat me to it

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Glad to hear!

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Glad you enjoyed!

Yeah. The drone shot was everything. Very eye in the sky.

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I use the ps in the silver bottle on my titan xd cummins. Curious how ot would compare to the regular hot shots secret for everyday use, specifically lubricity, since it doesn't get that cold here in West Tx.

Looks like mixing PS and 2 stroke oil would be a great combination. I get the $1 bottle from Wal-Mart and add it in on fill up.

@@Jackmerius_Tacktheretrix how low did your temperature get February 2021? I’m in NE texas and it’s the first time Iv needed to use a anti gel additive.

@@GTObearclaw1 I was in New Mexico when this hit and we got down to -9 with the wind chill. I used service power anti gel and had no problems other than a rough idle for the first few seconds or so but it was at 4am and freaking cold 🥶

Thanks for the suggestion.

@@ProjectFarm Couple of suggestions. Cost per gallon comparison. Lubricity test done with treated diesel, not straight additive,

Curious on the Conklin brand too

Stanadyne has been making fuel pumps for years so yeah.

Thank you! Thanks for the video idea.

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@@ProjectFarm Going to start using the hot shot as I excursion recently. Thank you for doing this.

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I've used it, and could go on for days about how good the product is. NEVER had fuel gel with it, and mileage improves with it. We had a piece of equipment which vandals had dumped water in fuel. Poured a whole bottle of PS in the tank, waited about 5 minutes, started up and we went to work.

i have used it to treat summer diesel before it got cold and it gelled up and looked like milk. 50% kerosene is the only anti gel that works. all stations cut their fuel by the time its cold so the additives are just a scam

@@mikecubes1642 summer diesel doesn’t respond to additive. I do, however agree, there is a lot of snake oil out there.

@@mikecubes1642 The ignorance is staggering.

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lol. Funny!!

Ernest goes to the Project Farm? (RIP Mr. Varney)

Definitely recommended this

Project Farm, if you would happen to do another test video using these products, I would love to also see you test Conklin’s two diesel products, Diesel-Plus and 4-Power D and I would be happy to send you a quart of each!

I came here to recommend Opti-Lube as well. Thank you. But I would also recommend Opti-Lube Winter for its anti-gel properties.

I was hoping for Optilube as well. I've been running it for several years without issue in my Kubota. I still appreciate the testing.

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Not just Optilube XPD, that's the popular all around formula. They have other ones, I'm most interested in Boost! and XL, particularly when they're mixed together at their maximum treat rates. Boost is supposed to raise the Cetane Rating by up to 9 points and XL is supposed to increase fuel lubricity a great amount. I've used both together, Boost at the max treat rate and XL at 2 oz / 10 gallons instead of 2.5 oz / 10 gallons. They seemed to pep up my old 6.5 enough so it wouldn't downshift up the same hill at 50 MPH as much so i think they work. (I was using my ScanGauge II to test it, with these additives the MPG numbers were higher up the same hill with the same weather conditions and tire pressures than they were previously.)

If it's anything like regular Amsoil I'm sure it's aces.

I blend the blue and purple label also. Works great in my 6.0

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Great name! Thanks for watching.

He actually piked this name 🤣

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Project Farm Can you test stp ultra 5-1 cleaner? I had a check engine light on for emissions then I used sea foam plus this new stp cleaner and my check engine light went away after one tank. I don’t think it was the sea foam bottle that did the trick. Thanks

@Geoff240ti Your name wouldn’t happen to be Troy would it? Lol

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