seafoam works! [merged]

[cranky]

I have been using seafoam in heavy equipment engines for years and I have seen it make dramatic differences in performance and idle quality. I recently had a problem with low power from my 91 talon. It felt like the computer was removing timing. Normally what I do is find a secluded spot because you will smoke down your whole neighborhood. Start the engine and let it get up to opperating temp. I remove a vacum hose and put it in the can and rev the engine to about 2500 rpm and suck the can dry. Shut off the engine and let it sit for about 15 minutes. Then start it back up and run it down the road, and run it hard. This will remove a substantial amount of carbon build up from the combustion chambers.

 

[AXRabbit376]

Just unhook your negative cable for a few mintutes or use a logger/autozone to clear it.

AutoZone won't clear codes for you, atleast they're not allowed to. I am a manager at the AutoZone in York, PA. Just clearing things up.

 

[RedRain]

Heres a video of someone who used it...

http://skyace2004.com/car/MOV01873.MPG

 

[prophecy7115]

Hey i never used this on my engine, but my dad did on his 95 n/t auto transmission, he put in the a full bottle or can or whatever it is and it worked miracles, the car would get stuck in 2 second gear he put it in and it worked wonders! funny thing that was today and never seen this thread before. !

 

[boostedgst2984]

got a ? for you all guys who have used it. Im going to use it on my next oil change. Just put in that mobil 1 synethic 15K oil Can i put the sea foam in at the compressor outlet on the nipple on the J pipe to help clean out my fmic and ic pipes as well or is this to far away to do any good on the intake mani as well??

thoughts please on this

Thanks
Dan

 

[unior]

got a ? for you all guys who have used it. Im going to use it on my next oil change. Just put in that mobil 1 synethic 15K oil Can i put the sea foam in at the compressor outlet on the nipple on the J pipe to help clean out my fmic and ic pipes as well or is this to far away to do any good on the intake mani as well??

thoughts please on this

Thanks
Dan

DUDE take off your intercooler and use gas to clean it

 

[boostedgst2984]

i cleaned it once when i was putting it on. but its just a hassle to take it off and i was just wondering if u could still do that and the sea foam still clean the intake and the cyl's. Was all. Since no one had mentioned it before.

 

[vtracer20]

it is recommened that u change ur oil after attempting this....this stuff loosens crap in ur engine..i did it by just pooring some onto the pistons. It smoked immediatly after i started it...not much smoke. but noticable. I took the car for a spin and it seemed to run smoother, i will put it in the intake mani soon cause i need a oil change anyways. I got 140K miles on her and hoping to smoke out the area.

 

[btodd]

I just did this yesterday and it's running great! It smoked for a good 20 min but my car is about 101,000 miles on it. I also poured some in the spark plug cylinders and let it sit for 20 min. I haven't done any compression tests, but it idles much smoother and seems to have better gas milage. Of course afterwards, I changed the oil using Royal Purple, put new Accel wires and new spark plugs.

 

[ColdAudio]

It works. 'Nuff said.

 

[xhaust50]

I must be retarded. Pulled the vac hose off of the "P" port on the throttle body and put a new hose to the port and the can, but no vacuum. The hose between the brake booster and the intake was extremely stiff so I didn't want to pull it. Vacuum gauge read 20hg. What gives?

 

[ITSME4G63]

I must be retarded. Pulled the vac hose off of the "P" port on the throttle body and put a new hose to the port and the can, but no vacuum. The hose between the brake booster and the intake was extremely stiff so I didn't want to pull it. Vacuum gauge read 20hg. What gives?

raise the engine revs, and itll start sucking the can up, another way you can do this is put a funnel at the endof the hose so taht the formula will pour down into the p port

 

[xhaust50]

I figured raising the RPM's will lower the vacuum, but I'll give it a whirl.

 

[yukondoit]

with seafoam work the same as autoRx to switch over to synthetic oil if added to the crankcase. just recently got my car and would like to switch it over for the sake of my evo3 i plan on installing this winter.

 

[theSicKness]

whoa........i think i just pissed off the town.... i just did in my 96 tsi w/ 173k miles....need i say more... ! the pictures in the this post dont give it justice to what my car did haha

its good way to look for exhuast leaks to i found a couple w/ the smoke pouring out of it i didnt know i had..

after i noticed night and day diffrences w/ the idle...and general throttle response..

by the way its 4.88 at advance

 

[Tarantula]

with all the testomonies, no one has actually said that after doing this procedure, the piston tops actually looked (Visually) cleaner. I have high compression on my engine due to carbon buildup and the piston tops are really coated with carbon. Super black. I'm hoping this will lower my current 195 compression back to the factory spec of 178psi.

 

[hayesjl]

words dont express the humor in the smoke you put out with this stuff Ill post picks soon as I get em out of the digi. dumped 3 cans in same time. one down the vac tube, one in gas, one in oil case.


let it sit over night for good measure next day started it up and car + house dissappeared in less than 5 mins at 3K rpm. The worlds best burnout contest holds no candle to the cloud you can make with this stuff!

pics soon.

oh ya 1995 GS 145K miles pretty good running before seems to run just as good now smoke took about 45 mins to clear but only real notice is before my engine would run a lil above center on temp now its a lil below center on temp. Idle is more consistant too.

 

[Tarantula]

Well I ran one can from the P line off my 1G TB and it smoke fairly good. Ran it hard on the freeway to clear it off. Than went the next day and poured 2 cans of this stuff into the tank and filled it up to the gas cap. Driving it normal for the entire tank with very minimal boosting. After the tank is empty I am going to see if my compression of 195-190-182-190 (4-3-2-1)gets lowered. I am tempted to pour another can into the cylinders right before my oil change (250 miles to go) and leave product there for at least 12-24 hours to see if It clears m carbon buildup. I'm probably going to repeat the 2 cans per tankful again. It is a little expensive at 2 cans for almost $14 and like $35 to fill her up with 91 octane but I really want this gone. I will post results after this tank has emptied. Still Got 3/4 to consume. My car has almost 132,000

 

[punishercb]

Man, I love that stuff. I remember I did mine a few months ago and it felt soo much more responsive. Plus the cloud of smoke left behind is a riot.

On a side note, has anyone ever done this on a rx-7 rotary engine? My brother's thinking about doing it and I'm not sure what to tell him.

 

[Spoolin4Ever]

Well I seafoamed the intake on the NT car, which ahs about 200K on it.

Some things I noticed, that weren't mentioned here:

1. I pulled my plugs right after running it in the intake, and before driving it out: the plug on the left, facing the car, was not wet at all, but the other 3 were. Makes me think that using the brake booster method only puts seafoam into 3 of the 4 cylinders (the other 3 plugs were wet). How can I run seafoam to get the cylinder that is on the far left, facing the car?

2. When I went to drive the car with seafoam still in it, the engine would ping REALLY BAD when I try to accelerate. Anyone else notice this? Not just cutting out, but pinging. In other words, when there is seafoam in there, got to be careful not to try and rev too high or put the engine under load, as it would ping bad.

3. There was no need to crimp the booster hose with my hand to control it, just have it turned at an angle against the inside of can of seafoam works fine, doesn't draw in any more then needed.

 

[TUI2I30]

If you want to clean it out with a huge cloud of smoke use the brake fluid! Seafoam is really good stuff. I use it in the tank as regular maintanace and it works great. I also use it on vehicles that have been sitting for a while. The other methods work FASTER, but they all work!

Also, the tank method will get it to all 4 guaranteed!

 

[911GGSX]

i want to use seafoam on my 1.8t jetta. does anyone know what vacum line i can use?

 

[mkspriggs]

hey guys,this sounds like it works great.but i have just recently rebuilt my 6 bolt and i am getting ready to put this back in my car in the next week or so,my question is how often should i do this to keep it as clean as i can?also with what some of the other guys were saying like 100 pages back,, about the water do you do this the same way with the vacum hose or is there more to it?thanks alot for posting this hopefully it really keeps all of our cars top shape.

 

[Spoolin4Ever]

hey guys,this sounds like it works great.but i have just recently rebuilt my 6 bolt and i am getting ready to put this back in my car in the next week or so,my question is how often should i do this to keep it as clean as i can?also with what some of the other guys were saying like 100 pages back,, about the water do you do this the same way with the vacum hose or is there more to it?thanks alot for posting this hopefully it really keeps all of our cars top shape.

Umm I'd say once a year is good enough.

Yeah the water method is the same. I'd be scared of hydrolocking with water, it does not compress like gasoline. And I think seafoam is probably more compressible as it is a petroleum produt.

Actually though, it depends on how many miles and how much carbon is in there. Example, we seafoamed an NT that has toasted rings (running lucas oil stabilizer or hyperlube stop smoke keeps it from burning oil, runs ok) and 210K miles onit. We did a half can twice in the same day, burning the seafoam out in between. Then I didn't get around to changing the oil for about a week, which turned out to be a good thing. Some of the seafoam slips passed the rings, mixes in the oil. If you left it in there too long, it might be bad, but it was driven about 100 miles in that week. Lifter tap completely went away! It has smoother throttle respone now, especially the low end, when you first apply the throttle. Well since the car has 210K on it, I'm going to seafoam right before every oil change for like the next year. The stuff works good. In our case, some of the effects were noticeable right away, but some it took a while. Seems like it kept burning some of the carbon off even after the seafoam was burnt ouut of it. Maybe because so many miles, it's really thick on the pistons. The treatment probably burnt some off initially, but left some still, but that stuff may have softened up a bit. Cause after about a week of driving afterwards, it was more noticeable. How awesome I never had to dump it in my crankcase (didn't want to losen up sludge, or make the leaks wore, it also leaks oil, but with the lucas or hyperlube, that also stops the leaks). By the way, right after seafoaming, my oil was NOT dirty. It took driving it a little for the oil to get dirty. And boy by the end of that week it was pretty black. Most people say change the oil right after doing it. I say do it after about 100 miles or so. Gives it a chance to get all the crap cleaned out in there. If I would have changed my oil right away, it would have been dirty by the end of the week.

Then tonight I did it on the AWD. Wow what a friggin smoke show! I need to do it again though I think. It smoothed out the shakey engine idle ime, but then it went back to the way it was, so I think it needs another (although I have a vacum/boost leak right now, you can hear it hissing, it was there before I seafoamed, no relation).

This stuff Rocks!

 

[m3th0d]

HI everyone Im new to the DSM turbo I had a 99 NT eclipse and now I got a 95 Tsi AWD and
I was wondering what to use to clean the inside of my turbo since I used GUNK on the NT but it wasnt recomended for Turbo's so I came across this thread (which its long)and went out to Autozone and got me a can, drove home and feed the can thru the P hose like ppl had said.
Yeah it smoked alot and my neighbors were looking at me funny but then again I live in the ghetto so its normal.

Long story short it works I found a leak on my exhaust manifold and btw my car has 146,000miles on it.

 

[Turbo Talon DL]

I used Valvoline carb cleaner on my old 4g37 before my motor swap, it would belch out SOME black smoke, but not all the white, riot control smoke screen type stuff....Could I use a can of carb cleaner and net the same results? I never knew the difference it made on my old motor, seeing how I always took reasonably good care of it and kept up with maintenance, it's performance never deteriorated. My new rebuild, my turbo was leaking, and sent oil through my engine, along with my entire intercooler tract. Thats where the carbon came from on my new Wiseco pistons!! My question again, could I use carb cleaner and net the same results? Send me a PM if you have an answer, its easier to get replies. Sometimes I dont return to the threads, but still want answers