Sea Foam, Junk!!!
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Cargo Master
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Sea Foam, Junk!!!
Well, I used some sea foam on my truck today. I sucked the whole can in through the brake vac. hose. My truck won't even run right. It is shơting out oil from the breather and has caused do much pressure it has blown my rear and front seal. Oil and smoke is coming from my intake breather. I don;t know if it clogged a valve or what. I just put some marvel oil into the , I will sê what it does.
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Marvel Mystery oil you must be a glutton for punishment. thats the stuff you put into a car just before you you sell it. it usually trashes out whats left of the burnt up motor.
All i can say is good luck!
All i can say is good luck!
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umm? did you just put the hose in the bottle and let it pull it all in at once? you need to have the engine above idle about 1500 and you insert the pcv hose into the bottle and meter the amount of sea foam being sucked in at a time by pinching the hose you do not want to hydro lock the engine.
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Well I am disgusted with that product. I followed the instructions on the can. It said to hook it up to the vacuum hose and I did. I kept it running and it sucked it right in. I am going to have to do a compression check but I think it messed up a pistion. The engine only had 8000 miles on it.
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It says to use it every 2 to 5 thousand miles. I put it in trying to clean some carbon in my upper intake.
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Welcome to the club of broken pistons by the folks that have used this stuff. It really is unbelievable how many folks are stuffing additives down their engines. An engine with 8,000 miles obviously didn't need any help if it was put together correctly. Seafoam is basically pale oil ( a non-detergent light weight oil-20w) and alcohol. It's not a good thing to flood your engine with and if you just have to do this, make sure the engine is not hot- you will break things and that ain't good folks. kameronth, you might try to pull the plugs and give them a cleaning. They most likely are fouled. The rest of it, best of luck. And hopefully it won't cost you a bundle to learn this lesson.
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It was not my fault. It is a garbage product and the instructions were not detailed . They did state that the engine needs to be warm. Also, my engine was put together right by S&S engines. The reason I used it was for the upper intake, not the engine. It was a $1600 H.O. engine. I have e-mailed sea foam to let them know of their mistake.
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MORE INFO REQUESTED!!!!!!!
what year truck, which engine, how many miles on engine, how was the procediur done (exactly), and what else is up with it?
please let me know more, after you change the plugs, because I was considering using it, but now not so much...
~Nate
what year truck, which engine, how many miles on engine, how was the procediur done (exactly), and what else is up with it?
please let me know more, after you change the plugs, because I was considering using it, but now not so much...
~Nate
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Your the only person I've heard of so far that had trouble with the stuff.
It didn't work miracles for me, but didn't mess up anything like it did with your engine, hopfully it's nothing major.
When I used it, it shot out alittle smoke, and droped my RPMs down about 100, on a 70,000 mile extremelly carboned up engine, but I don't think I left it in long enough(15 min, I should of let it sit longer).
It said to only use 1/2 - 1/3 or the pint at a time, so you might of put to much for the engine to handle all at once, and might just run it's way out.
It didn't work miracles for me, but didn't mess up anything like it did with your engine, hopfully it's nothing major.
When I used it, it shot out alittle smoke, and droped my RPMs down about 100, on a 70,000 mile extremelly carboned up engine, but I don't think I left it in long enough(15 min, I should of let it sit longer).
It said to only use 1/2 - 1/3 or the pint at a time, so you might of put to much for the engine to handle all at once, and might just run it's way out.
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You are supposed to use it on a warm engine, pull the brake booster line, let it vac in 1/3 of the can and immediately shut it down for about 30 minutes, when you fire it back up, be ready for smoke, take it for a good drive, open it up. I've been using it for 5 years on our car, works great, emissions testing that is done every year seems to show the stuff works. At 160,000 miles, our car is fine with the use of the stuff.
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Originally Posted by maples01
You are supposed to use it on a warm engine, pull the brake booster line, let it vac in 1/3 of the can and immediately shut it down for about 30 minutes, when you fire it back up, be ready for smoke, take it for a good drive, open it up.
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With engine warm, slowly pour 1/3 to 1/2 pint through carburetor or throttle body throat. (If vehicle is port injected slowly pour SEA FOAM through direct manifold vacuum line that will feed all cylinders, possible sources are P.C.V. valve or brake booster line.) This will pull SEA FOAM down on top of the pistons and to the back of the intake valves to dissolve carbon. Turn ignition off. Restart engine after 5 minutes. If severe carbon build up is apparent, use more Sea Foam as previously directed. Make sure exhaust is well ventilated when using Sea Foam in these various ways as fumes will be extreme for a short time.
BTW, I don't see anthing about pouring in an entire can.
BTW, I don't see anthing about pouring in an entire can.