what is sea foam
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From: Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
what is sea foam
I've herd alot about seafoam but not too sure what it is,what exactly what does it do,and does it come under a different name.I'm beginning to think I'm the only one that has never herd of seafoem.
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old farts used to run a quart of tranny fluid for 250-500 miles before an oil change to clean things up. i had a stuck lifter in a 300 6 and my mechanic friend dumped a quart in and it cleaned it up in 100 miles.
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I was on the hunt for seafoam in my area ,and got talking to a guy at the parts store,he said he knew a mechanic that used hot water,wouldn't that mess something up,has anybodei ever herd of this.
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I have never done it, but have heard of a few people doing it.
Get someone to hold your engine rpms up to 2500 +/-.
Take a little spray bottle and mist a little water directly into the carb. Clean the carbon right off the pistons. IF you have ever seen an engine with a crack in the coolant passage, that cylinder is always spotless, looks new. So no reason it wouldn't work, just keep the rpms up. This will clean the pistons, not the intake if you have an efi with a lot of carbon build up due to the egr. And be sure and point your exhaust away from everything, been told all kinds of black crap will come out the exhaust. Good luck
Get someone to hold your engine rpms up to 2500 +/-.
Take a little spray bottle and mist a little water directly into the carb. Clean the carbon right off the pistons. IF you have ever seen an engine with a crack in the coolant passage, that cylinder is always spotless, looks new. So no reason it wouldn't work, just keep the rpms up. This will clean the pistons, not the intake if you have an efi with a lot of carbon build up due to the egr. And be sure and point your exhaust away from everything, been told all kinds of black crap will come out the exhaust. Good luck
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Sometimes "old farts" have learned things that "young terds" haven't figuered out yet. Sea Foam is good for removing carbon and freeing up things. Especially if you think your rings or valves are sticky. Other things also help such as water, Marvel Mystery Oil etc. it's available at NAPA and commonly used in Marine applications for carbon build up especially in 2 stokes.
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Sea Foam, Used to free up lifters, sludge and varnish in engines, Will breakdown mocules of oil and fuel to smaller particales to help desolve contaminents in injectors, trans valvebodies, oil and fuel in cooling system after headgasket change and person did not backflush cooling system before reinstalling head. THIS STUFF is AWSOME in oil,trans,Rack and pinion steering systems, Fuel systems.
PS helps to loosen up stiff oil seals, ie rearmain, clutch packs.
Rich
PSS i was a ford tech for 12years and am 38 now. Have been building engines since 13 really!!!!!!
PS helps to loosen up stiff oil seals, ie rearmain, clutch packs.
Rich
PSS i was a ford tech for 12years and am 38 now. Have been building engines since 13 really!!!!!!
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Use a spray bottle and mist water into the intake?
I used a gallon jug of water, held the carb wide open, and controlled rpm by dumping water down the carb. Worked pretty well too
This was on a Chevy 250 six that was so carboned up, You could turn the key off, dump the clutch (to kill the motor), pull the coil wire off, and start it again.
I used a gallon jug of water, held the carb wide open, and controlled rpm by dumping water down the carb. Worked pretty well too
This was on a Chevy 250 six that was so carboned up, You could turn the key off, dump the clutch (to kill the motor), pull the coil wire off, and start it again.
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I sell sea foam , check at a local mower shop one of them should sell it . BUT BUYER BEWARE READ THE CAN do what it says no extra's or you wish you would have read can AFTER the fact. It's great stuff but it's bad when ya don't read the CAN.
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Sea Foam kept my very marginal transmission running through the winter (83 Ranger plow truck). Finally the xmsn let go, but I was amazed how well it worked. My Ranger was addicted to the stuff.
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Originally posted by steell
Use a spray bottle and mist water into the intake?
I used a gallon jug of water, held the carb wide open, and controlled rpm by dumping water down the carb. Worked pretty well too
This was on a Chevy 250 six that was so carboned up, You could turn the key off, dump the clutch (to kill the motor), pull the coil wire off, and start it again.
Use a spray bottle and mist water into the intake?
I used a gallon jug of water, held the carb wide open, and controlled rpm by dumping water down the carb. Worked pretty well too
This was on a Chevy 250 six that was so carboned up, You could turn the key off, dump the clutch (to kill the motor), pull the coil wire off, and start it again.
Please don't try the gallon jug trick... The wonderful thing about liquids (water included)...THEY DON'T COMPRESS. The engine could inhale enough in one cylinder to hydro-lock. This could; bend a connecting rod, crack a piston heck at enough rpm...break a crankshaft. These are some of the reasons a spray bottle is recommended. The water turns to steam (and expands) when heated inside the cylinder. It's the steams that cleans everything not the actual water....