I'm went out and bought some SeaFoam today... but now it is raining hard so I will have to wait till tomorrow evening to smoke out my neighbors...

My question would be how to get it into the engine? Is there a trick to getting it in the vacuum line from the brake booster?(being that the hose's nipple on the Plenum is horizontal and not much room to hold the bottle there.)

I have a 96 disco 4.0.

thanks,
mark

 

I would use the pcv hose spot pull it off of the plenum get a hose
that will fit the plenum longer so you can stick it down in the can.
A clamp or something that can limit the flow (vise grips).

 

I have a 96 and I used a piece of winshield washer hose I had extra cut it off about 1 foot long and put it in the end of the booster line elbow and down in the can.It fits perfectly

 

I usually get three cans when I buy seafoam; one for the gas tank, one for the oil, and one for the PCV. For my Grand Marquis I let it suck the seafoam through the PCV until it either empties the can or stalls the engine, then wait about 15 minutes before you restart and it will blow a bunch of smoke out the tailpipe for a half minute or so. For the oil, I run it for a hundred miles or so before changing the oil. Fuel, you just dump it in the tank. Havent done it to the rover yet, still fixing other things but its on the agenda.

 

Don't waist your money on putting a can in the crank case, plan on doing an engine flush, you get much better results. The other thing you should buy is a can of carb cleaner so you can clean out your t/body, makes a big difference.

 

I wonder about the wisdom of putting it in the oil and driving for 100 miles. It's basically a solvent and thins out the oil. That's got to reduce lubricating properties and what kind of extra wear might that lead to? Just posing the question.

Mark G

 

I would agree with that theory. One can probably isn't enough to do that, but then again you're usually only supposed to idle the engine for five minutes and drain when using an engine cleaner, not drive around for 100 miles. I have a Honda VFR motorcyle with an engine knock. I suspect that it might be from old gas gumming up a needle valve in the carb, which got stuck open and drained a bunch of gas into the crankcase over the winter. I think gas and any engine cleaneris justa differentform of petroleum solvent.