What?!?! Magnet mod?!....

Jinx102672 said:

It sounds nice in theory, however if it really improved fuel efficiency, wouldn't they come factory installed on all vehicles (as a new EPA standard)??

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BOO-YAH!! You blasted the proverbial nail right on the head!!

Pughman, Sorry, I misunderstood your post.

most automatic trannys have a magnet in the bottom of the tranny pan... lol

my dad was asking me about these cause someone told him it would get better gas milage but im sure you would be better off just buying $30 worth of gas than buying a magnet...

wesl56 said:

most automatic trannys have a magnet in the bottom of the tranny pan... lol

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Completely different reason. The magnet is there to catch metal particles to prevent them from getting back into the tranny.

Geez I can't believe this thread hasn't died yet. What a waste of bandwidth

yeah i know, but someone said somehting about putting a magnet on the oil pan.... i was just stating that some trannys have them too

wesl56 said:

yeah i know, but someone said somehting about putting a magnet on the oil pan.... i was just stating that some trannys have them too

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A lot of oil pan drain plugs have a magnet in them. Again, to remove metal particles from the oil.

And that's about the only thing this "fuel rail magnet" will do....remove metal from the fuel. Even if it does that, it wouldn't remove any non-ferrous metals.

its crazy

[QUOTE='01 Steed]And that's about the only thing this "fuel rail magnet" will do....remove metal from the fuel. Even if it does that, it wouldn't remove any non-ferrous metals.[/QUOTE]
Not with both the magnets having opposite charges. The only thing that will do is repel things and force it apart. I tried explaining this above. Besides that, where is it going to remove the metal to ? When you wrap a magnet around your oil filter, it catches the metal in the filter so when you change the filter, the metal goes with it. When you have a magnetic tipped drain plug, you clean the drain plug tip of when you change the fluid. The only way this thing would work to trap metal in the fuel line is if the magnet was wrapped around the fuel filter and trust me, the motorcraft fuel filters are not magnetic. I know, I tried.

Well, first of all...that's part of my point. This mod is J-U-N-K! It should be on Myth-Busters! What I was eluding to above was that any magnet would only remove ferrous materials from the fuel stream. Obviously it wouldn't "remove" it from the fuel rail. It would merely collect it against the wall of the rail.

Secondly, you mean "like charge", not "opposite charge". Opposite charge magnet attract each other. And where is it that he says that he placed two "like pole" magnets on his fuel rails???

Regardless, this is complete BUNK, and has ZERO validity.

Nah, we're not fighting. We're agressively discussing the finer points of this topic.

[QUOTE='01 Steed]This mod is J-U-N-K! It should be on Myth-Busters!
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My thought exactly....let Myth-busters test it out on one of their junky cars or something.

people are making fun of this over at modularpowerhouse for a reason

[QUOTE='01 Steed]Secondly, you mean "like charge", not "opposite charge". Opposite charge magnet attract each other. And where is it that he says that he placed two "like pole" magnets on his fuel rails???
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Forgive me, I meant to say "like charge" and not opposite charge, as I did in my first post in this thread. As for him placing two "like pole" magnets on his fuel rails, I dont see any place where he said this. I was only saying thats what the mod consists of.

On a side note, this thread was a good idea. This is definatley a mod that is not talked much about and at least it got some addressing down for once.

Here is a link to the US Environment Protection Agency test of the magnet on the fuel line thing:http://www.epa.gov/orcdizux/consumer/devices/pb82194937.pdf

i use 2 powerfull magnets on my oil pan near the plug and 1 on the filter.

JCwhitney will sell any useless automotive gadget known to man, it is a farce.