http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UxSBWCa6uA

Running a can of Seafoam through the carb before I sold it, not as much smoke as i was hoping...

I'm such a nice guy

 

nice vid. how did you use the seafoam? just open the bottle and pour it down the carb? i have a can @ home but have been hesitant to use it b/c of my car being 25 years old and 133,000 miles that runs great and i don't want to screw anything up. did you notice any differences afterwards?

 

I dumped half a can straight through the carb and the rest through the tank, i suggest putting it through the vacuum hose connected to the master cylinder with the car running. That way you know for sure it's getting on top of the cylinders. After your done shut the car off for 30min and fire it back up and enjoy the show...

Pour it in slowly so the engine doesn't stall and apparently if you pour it in to fast you can Hydro lock the cylinders...but i wouldn't worry about that.

I couldn't tell a difference after...but i couldn't really get a feel for it cause its gone now. XD

Lots of people will tell you it smooths out the idle and is similar as to when you take your car in to get a fuel system clean

 

The way I've always know to run seafoam is the vacuum method mentioned above (which I intend to do soon on my firebird). In the cars I've done it to in the past, its a pretty wicked show, which usually includes the seafoam can getting crushed by the suction. The results are usually awesome, and idle smooths out a ton.

The only warning I have, is it seems like burning the seafoam in this form increases compression or something, and on cars in really bad shape they tend to dump a good deal of their oil while the seafoam cycles through. I had a Nissan Stanza dump pretty much all of its oil while seafoaming it, which nearly blew the engine (it was a rust bucket of a demo derby car with nearly 300,000 miles on it).

 

i seafoamed my camaro about a month ago, seafoam has always worked really well for me. 1/2 a bottle down carb, 2 fl oz in the oil, ran it for 5 minutes and immediately drained, poured the rest in the tank. car runs alot better and it definitely got some nasty stuff out of the crank case.

but if you seafoam the crank case, dont put more than 2 fl oz in and run it for a few minutes, then drain immediately. i have heard about bad things happening if you put too much in or if you leave it in there for too long. but again there is a guy i know that puts a little bit in his oil (once a year) and runs it for the full 3,000 before he changes it, and it works out for him, but i woudnt necessarily recommend that.

 

thanks guys! i'm prob. gonna try it in the next week or so (whenever i have time) so i'll let you know how it turns out.

 

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