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Can you use brake fluid to clean fuel injectors?

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Old May 21, 2009 | 04:39 PM
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Question Can you use brake fluid to clean fuel injectors?

I heard you can soak your fuel injectors in DOT3 brake fluid to clean them, is this true?
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Old May 21, 2009 | 05:00 PM
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clean the outside or inside? send them to witchhunter to have the internals cleaned.
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Old May 21, 2009 | 05:04 PM
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Both, just pour some in a jar and let it soak.
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Old May 21, 2009 | 05:05 PM
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Dude do it the proper way, not the honda way.
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Old May 21, 2009 | 05:13 PM
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its not necessarily that i am a cheap *** lol, its just i got laid off of work last month and i only get like $55 a week from my unemployment check. so i dont reallly have much money, and i heard it works from a few friends so i wanted to hear what everyone else thought.
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Old May 21, 2009 | 05:18 PM
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I didnt know that, Might have to try it out
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Old May 21, 2009 | 05:20 PM
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well i have some spare DSM injectors so i will see how well it cleans them.
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Old May 21, 2009 | 06:45 PM
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it might work being that brake fluid will eat paint off of stuff. But why not just buy a bottle of injector cleaner additive and soak them in that? its about the same price and is meant for that.
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