Seafoam, effective or a $$$ waste
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poured in the gas tank. effective or snake oil? thank you for your time.
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Re: Seafoam, effective or a $$$ waste
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Ive seen with my own eyes what seafoam can do so I’m sold on its value. Check the search feature and check it out. It’s good stuff if you don’t expect overnight results
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Re: Seafoam, effective or a $$$ waste
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My intent would be to clean the carb or injectors. Sounds like running a can with a small tank of gas might be worthwhile. thanks guys!
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Re: Seafoam, effective or a $$$ waste
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Whether it's a waste or not depends,if you have a chemistry background then yes it's a waste of $$. Depends.
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Re: Seafoam, effective or a $$$ waste
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Seafoam works great for removing deposits on valves and carbon off pistons. We never pour it in the tank for that..Vacuum line is best but can be dumped down carb/Throttle body at idle feathering the throttle. Let it set for 20 minutes and watch the smoke show and hope no neighbors call the fire department FWIW a mixture of water and trans fluid will also do a really good job cleaning out carbon in the chamber.
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Re: Seafoam, effective or a $$$ waste
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W/r/t added through a vacuum line: Similar results reported for 1. Coca Cola 2. Marvel Mystery Oil 3. tap water
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Re: Seafoam, effective or a $$$ waste
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I know that for personal amusement , it can't be beat. A friend back in the day filled the windshield washer reservoir with it , and ran the line to a 90 degree spark plug boot located just above the carburetor in a '71 Ford LTD..........351 W. He would drive up the street in front of my parents house and be pressing the windshield washer button like it was a coin return on a candy machine. We are talking James Bond quality smoke screens. You could not see the house across the street. It was great. He worked it hard for about two weeks , until he thinned the oil to the point of catastrophic engine failure. But we had more than a couple laughs with that one , and when a running , driving car could be had for a hundred dollars , it was affordable fun as well.
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Re: Seafoam, effective or a $$$ waste
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I was an Evinrude outboard motor dealer for many years and I was asked this question many times and heard it asked at service seminars nearly every session. Their answer was always the same; for those that believe that diluting any fuel system 'cleaner' so much when mixed with fuel does any good, just take a sample of that mix and put a dirty spark plug or something similar in it for a while. You'll find that it is far too diluted to have any impact. What they always recommended and what I use to this day is the concentrated de-carbonate products. Sea Foam might even be a version of it. GM has them as well as all the outboard manufacturers. JC Whitney had a version that they called 'Tune Up In A Can'. And it really works well in concentrate. But even it will not be effective when diluted with gallons of gas or fuel. It is all I have ever used to clean carburetors. It is very effective, non acidic, water soluble, and won't hurt the aluminum, unlike carb cleaner. There is a lot more to this subject, but that is the gist of it. This is still what I use to clean carbs and anything with carbon deposits. There are other brands of the same product, too. This stuff has been around for decades. https://www.amazon.com/Johnson-Evinrude-OMC-Engine-777185/dp/B001KYJAL0
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Re: Seafoam, effective or a $$$ waste
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On the Seafoam, yes I know it works for cleaning injectors. Back in 04, I was driving a fuel injected 89 f150 that developed an intermittent miss. This went on for about 10,000 miles while I checked or replaced most of the ignition system components. It got worse and more consistent with time. So I started dumping sea foam in the tank at each fill. After 3 tanks, the miss was completely gone. I don't know how that can be snake oil? On the Lucas, I sure will vouch for the transmission conditioner! One of our roofing trucks, an 89 Chev one ton SRW with a 350 that had about 200,000 miles on it was being used (abused?) one day by an employee, who was trying to make it back to the shop with a big load in the bed, and a big overloaded trailer, going into a 30 mph headwind. He walked the last 2 miles to shop and said the truck wouldn't go no more. When I got there, I could smell the burnt up tranny from 30 feet away. The motor ran, but the trans slipped so bad, it would barely move. We towed it back, and I drained and flushed the fluid/filter. Still had major slippage. Dumped in the Lucas, and it somehow, miraculously cured it. We used that truck for at least another few months before I sold it, and it never slipped again. I don't know how that can be snake oil? On the J.C. Whitney Instant Engine Overhaul: back in 77, I had a 67 Cougar GT with a 390 that burned about a quart every 100 miles. Being young and full of hope and optimism, I spent $6.95 on the Instant Overhaul. Afterall, it had a 100% money back guarantee. The instructions said to dump the honey-like liquid into the crankcase, then bring the engine up to full operating temperature. Then while the engine was still hot, remove the spark plugs, put the overhaul pellets (like Jacks magic beanstalk beans) into the cylinders, replace the spark plugs, and start the engine to repair and coat the cylinder walls and rings with liquid molybdenum. Well, if you've ever tried to to remove the spark plugs on a big bock, shock tower Ford, you can guess what happened. The motor was stone cold by the time I got all the plugs back in and started it, so the molybdenum didn't have a chance to coat the cylinders. I'm sure if I had been doing this in a 426 Hemi, it would have worked! I don't know how that can be snake oil?
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Re: Seafoam, effective or a $$$ waste
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Seafoam works great for removing deposits on valves and carbon off pistons. We never pour it in the tank for that..Vacuum line is best but can be dumped down carb/Throttle body at idle feathering the throttle. Let it set for 20 minutes and watch the smoke show. Wonder what that does to catalytic converters?
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