Alternate Fuels Testers - TEST RESULTS

USING WATER TO CLEAN CARBON OUT OF A GASOLINE ENGINE

Test conducted by Rudy Stefenel on 4/11/07 and 4/12/07.
PURPOSE:
TO FIND OUT IF IT IS MYTH OR FACT THAT PORING WATER INTO
THE CARBURATOR OF A RUNNING GASOLINE ENGINE WILL
CLEAN CARBON OUT OF THE ENGINE.
I used a Coleman PowerMate model 1850 electrical generator without a load.
The reason for not using a load is that I wanted to duplicate what some people
do with automobile engines. Those who I talked to who have done this with
an automobile remove the air cleaner and pored the water from a coke bottle, or
something like that, into the carburetor as they sped up the engine by hand,
while the car is stationary.
I did not speed up the generator by hand because a generator already runs
pretty fast. The generator uses a governor to keep it at a constant operating
speed, and that action is similar to speeding up an automobile engine by hand.
CONCLUSIONS:
There is defiantly less carbon inside the engine after running the water through
it. The left photo shows the carbon on the piston and the calendar head before
the water treatment. The right photo is after the water treatment.

BEFORE

AFTER

I was very skeptical that this would work. In fact, when I photographed the
top of the piston and the cylinder head after the water procedure, and looked at
the photo, I thought that the water did not help. I just did not remember how
much carbon there was before the test. It was not until I wrote this report and
put the photos side by side that I realized that there is significantly less carbon
after the water procedure. How about that?
TEST METHOD:
I used a Coleman 1850 gasoline generator that had lots of carbon in the
combustion chamber left there from a different kind of test. The engine was
carbon-ed up to the point that it had kept running for a short while after turning
off the ignition right after I did a different kind of test months ago.
The cylinder head was removed from the engine on 4/11/07 to photograph the
carbon before the water procedure. The air cleaner was removed from the
generator. Water was sprayed into the carburetor, using the 409 cleaner bottle
stream setting, at a rate that it would not slow down the engine significantly,
but fast enough so the engine would not run as smoothly as it normally would.
This took 36 minutes.

Here is the Coleman 1850 generator with the air cleaner removed and the 409
cleaner plastic spray bottle to be used to spay water into the engine.
The water procedure was done on 4/12/07 and then the cylinder head was
removed from the engine later that day to take photos.

TEST SETUP 4/11/07 and 4/12/07:

Location: Stabilizer Solutions, foot hills in Milpitas, thanks to Peter Herrera.
Gasoline: Union 76 regular.
Water:
0.5 liter plastic bottle of R-everyday purified water, sold by Niagara
Bottling Company, Tap water would have been fine, but this is what I had on hand.
Coleman 1850 gasoline generator, 1500 watts continuous power available.
Engine Oil: Valvoline 10W-30.
Before the water procedure, I cleaned out the 409 cleaner spray bottle with hot water
many times to get rid of the residual of 409 cleaner. Then I removed the air cleaner
from the generator. Also I changed the engine oil and the spark plug.
ENGINE WARM UP: Warmed up the engine for 15 minutes with no load.
The ambient temperature now is 62 degrees F.
PROCEEDURE:
It took 36 minutes to spray the whole 0.5 liter of water into the carburetor. A small
percentage of it did not go into the carburetor and spilled onto a metal drip pan.

I moved the generator away from the edge of the drip pan, for this photo, to show that
a small amount of water did not make it into the generator.
The ambient temperature was still 62 degrees F after the water procedure.

COMMENTS:
I wish that I had drained the engine oil to examine it carefully. I did remove the oil
cap and stuck a screwdriver into the oil and looked at it to see what the oil looked like
after the water procedure. I wanted to see if any water had got into the oil. The oil
looked as new as it was when I put it into the engine before the test. Also I noticed
that the engine oil level was either the same or nearly the same as as it was before the
test.
It would have been better to drain the engine oil so I could put some in a beaker to
compare to new oil in another beaker. I can't be sure that no water got into the
engine oil, but I am sure that if any did, it was not enough to foam up the oil or I
would have notice that when I examined it by sticking a screwdriver into it.
What if just running the engine for 36 minutes would have removed the carbon
without spraying water into the carburetor? The answer is no and here is why:
I already had run this engine for more than 36 minutes before this water procedure
and that was since the engine was carbon-ed up. I used it to charge the batteries in
my electric vehicle once. Also I ran it for 15 minutes to warm it up before the water
procedure of this report.
It took 36 minutes for me to spay 0.5 liters of water, which is 16.9 fluid ounces, into
the Coleman generator carburetor and I doubt that anyone who did this procedure
with a car did it for 36 minutes. I expect that they pored water in the carburetor for
more like 5 minutes.
I don't know if most of the carbon that I got out of the Coleman generator was
removed early in the water procedure or not. At any rate, if I ever do this with an
automobile, I will likely do it for a half hour or more just to be sure that I got a
significant amount of carbon out. Even though I did notice any water in the engine
oil after my test, if I do this with an automobile, I will try to do it just before a oil
change just in case some of the water got past the piston rings and mixes into the
engine oil.
4/13/2007, Rudy Stefenel