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Re: Snake oil testamonial

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Originally Posted by billgrover56

This is forPapa Rick,

This is a testamonial some of you may be interested in.
Does Ethos FR work?

This is the very most important question to ask, for if it doesn’t, nothing else matters. Jerry Schnitzius, General Manager of the San Diego area operation of Allied Waste Services came to the meeting and told us of his company’s experience with Ethos FR. Being a trained mechanic, he said there is no such thing as "a miracle in a can," and it wasn’t until Enrique De Vilmorin’s 7th visit that he consented to allow Enrique to put some of that stuff in one of his trucks. And when he finally did, he made him put it in an old truck that was about ready to go to the junkyard. Ethos FR immediately reduced the opacity (blackness of exhaust smoke) from 80 to 20. Opacity is one of the most important tests on diesel engines in California. Still not convinced, they tested it on more trucks for six months (totally at Ethos FR’s expense) before giving the go ahead to put it in all trucks within Jerry’s operations. Since 2000, the average opacity for the entire fleet, is approximately 10, they won the Earth-Day award in the community for reducing pollution and harmful emissions by 500 tons per year.

Most importantly, to a huge publicly traded company, they have saved $34 million in fuel consumption in 6 years. The employees now use Ethos in their personal vehicles and Jerry said, "If it doesn’t work, it’s because you don’t use it." They put Ethos FR in the fuel, crankcases and transmissions of all their trucks. The decision has been made to use Ethos FR by Allied in Texas and soon across the nation by all Allied operations.

Allied Waste Services the second largest waste management company in the U.S. and is currently burning about 2 million gallons of fuel per day. Do you honestly believe they would continue spending millions of dollars per year for a product that doesn’t work?

If your product is so damn good, why are you spamming a trucking board to sell it? Good products tend to sell themselves.

White smoke(when it's not cold) is a good indication of a Turbo problem.

Good products don't sell them selves if you aren't aware of them. It's been around for 10 years but I just heard about it last July and you just heard about it yesterday. People were skeptical of electricity too.

It does not blow white smoke out when warmed up, only when starting up on a cold day.

The power loss only occurs when it is loaded and going up a hill, or incline.

It is fine on level ground, or empty, and this just started this past Tuesday.

Just looking for advice on what to check out to try and see where it might be at.

Thanks for the advice. As for the new product, I will pass on it. I am not saying it does not work, but for me right now I am not interested.

Fair enough. Keep an open mind and good luck. Let us know what you find out.

Wanted to let everyone know, the power loss was a very dirty air filter. Had the fuel pump, fuel lines, fuel filter checked and replaced, and still no help, took it to another shop, and a mechanic walked out and said it probably was the air filter.

He told me that they had just changed an air filter on a New Dump Truck with only 12,000 miles on it, but was in real bad dusty conditions, and no one could figure out the power loss, until they checked the air filter.

Changed the Air Filter and Truck is back to normal.

That is great news. When something is difficult to find or diagnose, it is usually something simple. :P

Them filter minders are cheap and easy to mount if you put it under the hood right on the filter or pipe/hose going to the Turbo. Even my cheap ass $5k FreightShaker came with one 8) . Save money by only changing the filter when it is used up!