Seafoam how to?
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I ONLY use SeaFoam in my OLD trucks........Like my late 70's early 80's carbed, no computer/sensor type trucks. In these they work great IMO. My buddy saw how well it worked in one of my old chevys and did a can into his 94 explorer.................about 2 days later the check engine light came on and it took him 2 months to change about every sensor that truck had just to get it to pass the emmisions testing in Alaska. He was not happy and said he wont ever use it again.
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If you want to clean your intake and valves and stuff use this, you can buy it at your local autoparts store.
Amazon.com: 3M - Intake System Cleaner Kit, 3-pack aerosol (08962): Automotive
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The real test would be to take a known (inspected) gummed up motor, do the seafoam vacuum injection, pull it apart and look. However - I assume that if you're going to pull it apart to see if the seafoam actually did the job, you could just do it right anyway.
That said - I sucked a can of seafoam in my intake vacuum, let it sit for like 10 minutes, fired it up and smoked the whole zipcode out for 30 minutes. Did it help? Hard to tell - truck still misfires. Did it hurt? Doubtful - truck still runs the same and has for 20K more miles.
Honest OPINION (like an ******* - we've all got them): I'd run it through the gas once in a while to keep the injectors clean. To REALLY clean the top end I'd just pull it apart and not risk it.
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My local shop hooked up a tool like the OTC-7448 to the fuel rail and ran a solvent similar to BG through the injectors. Definitely smoothed out my D2 at idle.
OTC 7448 Fuel Injection Pressurized Cleaning Canister | eBay
OTC 7448 Fuel Injection Pressurized Cleaning Canister | eBay
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There were some saturn 1.9l engines a while back that would carbon up so bad the oil rings would stick and cause high oil consumption. They would pull the spark plugs out and pour some cleaner right into the cylinders and let it soak for two hours. I wonder if a procedure like that would be helpful for our engines, just to get them extra clean
Cleaning Pistons of 1.9L -The Saturn Way - SaturnFans Forums
(I'm not actually a saturn fan... that's just the first website that I saw that had the TSB where they did this on saturns).
Cleaning Pistons of 1.9L -The Saturn Way - SaturnFans Forums
(I'm not actually a saturn fan... that's just the first website that I saw that had the TSB where they did this on saturns).
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