Anyone try Seafoam?

[drew at scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca (Drew)]

I used to "deploy" intake/combustion chamber cleaner via an unported
vacuum line - the vacuum advance line on the distributor used to be
handy - pull it off and use the plastic tube as a straw to suck the
contents of the bottle up.

Drew



On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 08:10, Patrick Bureau wrote:
> It sound like in the days when we parked the car behind the supermarket on a
> quiet Sunday, popped the air filter off the carburetor, stuck a screw driver
> into the carb, and let the car idle at 2500 rpm and slow pour 1 quart of
> dextron III oil into it as it revved.. Nice Black/blue smoke for some 20-30
> mins as we poured it in.... Then... Clean as a whistle.
> 
> The question I have for you... How do you spray it into your engine on a FI
> system while its running ? The only port I see would be remove air filter
> and spray it from the bottom hole of the air box... Seem unpractical as most
> of that "mist" will be stick to insides of every components along the way
> and only getting a minimum of product where you actually want it to be.
> 
> If your trying to clean your block/head, put some dextron II/II transmission
> oil in your crank oil and run it for 3K, (about 1/2-1Qtr)
> Cleans lifters noises, and blue smoke syndrome (if rings in good
> shape).(1.99$)
> 
> As for cleaning your piston chambers, get a large can of carburetor cleaner,
> pop the tube off your air intake, clean the Throttle body, open the flap
> manual and juice up your intake manifold, I usually use about 1/2 can, pop
> tube back in place, crank that puppy...(2.99$)
> 
> The only thing the seafoam seems to clean is the top of the pistons and
> valves seats since its pushed into your air intake. The other question is,
> how much does this product cost ?
> 
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> ->-----Original Message-----
> ->From: scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org 
> ->[mailto:scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org] On Behalf Of T Berk
> ->Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 11:29 PM
> ->To: Scirocco E-list
> ->Subject: Anyone try Seafoam?
> ->
> ->
> ->
> ->It's a solvent type spray and/or liquid that you allow to get 
> ->sucked up into the motor (until it stalls!) and let sit in 
> ->the hot cylinders.
> ->
> ->After you let it sit awhile, you fire it back up and there is 
> ->supposed to be a tremendous amount of sooty smoke that comes 
> ->pouring out of the tail pipe-  and after awhile things are 
> ->supposed to be right as rain.
> ->
> ->Watcha 'tink?
> ->
> ->
> ->TBerk
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