MEET THE TECHRON

WHAT IS TECHRON??

Techron is a fuel additive which acts as a detergent to keep your engine clean and deposit free. Techron uses polyether amines (PEA) to help fight deposits in an engine’s intake system and minimize combustion chamber deposits. Over 25 years ago, after discovering that PEAs were effective deposit control additives, Chevron patented them and has been reformulating and improving Techron ever since.

WHY YOUR ENGINE KNOCKING & PINGING

Knocking and pinging is generally caused by improper combustion in your engine, called “auto-ignition.” If the gasoline-air mixture auto-ignites somewhere in the cylinder (other than at the spark plug) just after spark ignition, the auto-ignition combustion wave can interact with the spark-initiated combustion wave, causing the vibration we hear as knock or ping. Increasing engine load, temperature, compression, spark-advance, air-fuel ratio and combustion chamber deposits all increase the tendency for an engine to knock. Using higher octane gasoline reduces an engine’s tendency to knock. If excessive combustion chamber deposits are contributing to the knocking problem, you may benefit from adding a bottle of Techron Concentrate Plus to your next purchase of gasoline.

Techron® in Your Engine

Most automotive engines operate in a four-stroke cycle: intake, compression, power and exhaust.
The intake stroke refers to the first downward motion of the piston in the cycle where the fuel-air mixture is drawn into the combustion chamber through the open intake valves.
As the piston reverses direction and begins to move back up, the intake valves close. This upward motion of the piston is the compression stroke. Compression raises the pressure and temperature of the mixture.
Near the top of the compression stroke, the spark plug ignites the air-fuel vapors. The mixture then burns and expands, driving the piston down for the power stroke. As the piston reaches the bottom of its movement and begins to move back up again, the exhaust valves open leading to the exhaust stroke. The upward motion of the piston pushes the unburned gases out of the engine into the exhaust manifold and eventually, out through the exhaust pipe. And then the entire process starts all over again.

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