Anyone have experience with all those 'gas savers' on ebay. Are they a scam or what? Flovent or whatever brand names applies.

 

Most are a joke.
What have you done to your engine to help improve it's mileage so far, how many miles on it, what year and model?

 

Dont waste your money. They are a scam. The only way to improve your milage is to use premium gas, full synthetic lubricants,good tune up, clean air filter, proper PSI in the tires, cruise control and most of all SLOW DOWN.

 

Only had my Disco for a few weeks. Changed oil, Seafoam treatment with Mike's instructions, cleaned air filter. Those are the only mechanical things that I've done. Droveit home from New England to Norhtern Ky and got about 17 mpg. Only use 93 octane and am not an unusually fast driver. 80,000 miles , 01 Discovery Series 2 SE7, 4.0

 

Will,
Pull a spark plug from each bank and check them for wear. If they look worn, I would put in a set of Bosch Plus 4 plugs and a set of Magnacor 8mm plug wires. If the plugs look good, I would still go for the plug wires cause the factory wires will long since be worn out.
I would also but a can of B&G's 44K gas additive to really cut the carbon.
By the way,17 MPG is not bad, good plugs and wires will give you a little more and that is all you can expect.
Mike

 

"Pull a spark plug from each bank and check them for wear. If they look worn, I would put in a set of Bosch Plus 4 plugs and a set of Magnacor 8mm plug wires. If the plugs look good, I would still go for the plug wires cause the factory wires will long since be worn out.
I would also but a can of B&G's 44K gas additive to really cut the carbon."


I agree with everthing here exceptI would go with plain old Champion coppers.Remember the Rover engine is an engine designed in the early 1960's by General Motors.

 

That at the time ran on AC spark plugs, and you don't see us promoting AC's for our Rovers, things change and the Plus 4's along with some good wires make an awful lot of low end torques that the Champions don't.

 

should I go ahead with the distributer cap while I am at it?

 

Might want to get a service manual. You don't have a distributor.....

 

just found that out after scrolling through the manual, duh!