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Old Oct 26, 2005 | 05:08 PM
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Injector Cleaner

I know this might sound crazy but i have heard it before....

Putting lucas injector cleaner through vaccum line on brake booster....

would you guys advise doing it?


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Old Oct 26, 2005 | 05:10 PM
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use seafoam instead, but lucas would be ok if you have it.
 
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Old Oct 27, 2005 | 05:55 AM
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agreed. seafoam is a regular treatment for my truck every other oil change. search on seafoam and you'll get a ton of hits. I'm guessing lucas is probably made outta the same stuff.
 
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Old Oct 27, 2005 | 08:11 AM
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I've done the seafoam treatment in the booster hose, as well as rislone in the oil a few times. The difference is astounding. Since I hvae 350K or so on my truck, I'd say neither chemical ruins the engine.
 
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Old Oct 27, 2005 | 11:55 AM
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how much do you put in?
 
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Old Oct 27, 2005 | 11:57 AM
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I usually throw 1/3 of the can into the brake booster line, the other 2/3 into the gas tank.
 
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Old Oct 27, 2005 | 11:58 AM
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I've used seafoam as well through the brake booster. Don't remember how much but it does say on the bottle how much to put in - I know I got at least 2 uses out of it. It also makes a really neat cloud.
 
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Old Oct 27, 2005 | 04:10 PM
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I would like to try this on mine also but I thought I heard that after you do this the O2 sensor gets creamed. Is this true? Thanks -
 
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Old Oct 27, 2005 | 04:46 PM
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It's never bothered my pair of O2 sensors.
 
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Old Oct 27, 2005 | 05:08 PM
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what's the purpose of putting it in the brake booster?

would you guys recommend Seafoam over, say, Chevron Techron for a pour-in fuel injector cleaner?

Mike
 
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Old Oct 27, 2005 | 05:13 PM
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techron is a very good cleaner. it was top rated in a review i read a few years ago. i do not remember where, sorry.

the brake booster air line is a convienient way to get cleaner to the intake manifold.

you disconnect it at brake booster, and slowly pour it into hose allowing the cleaner to get to manifold.

it will probably stall, and it will smoke like crazy, so be ready for the neighbors to go nuts.
 
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Old Oct 27, 2005 | 05:33 PM
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oh, i know it's good stuff. i've been using it for years. i'm just always open to anything that may work better.

the vacuum line trick is a good idea. never though of that.

Mike
 
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Old Oct 27, 2005 | 06:42 PM
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I'm new here but I've been reading over the articles and figured was time to register.

I've been reading about everyone having great luck with seafoam on this forum aswell as a few other Ford/F150 related forums. I'm driving a '96 F150 XLT with the 5.0L 302 with around 123k miles and it's definetely starting to get to where it needs a good cleaning.

I've read everyone recommend running it through the brake booster but I heard somewhere that on the '96 and believe '94-'95 possibly also that if you run seafoam through the brake booster on the 302 that it mainly only gets to cylinders 7 and 8. Does anyone have any information on this? I've heard from the same people that you're better off running it through the PCV vacuum line but it's a bit harder to get to than the brake booster.

Thanks for any information.
 
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Old Oct 28, 2005 | 07:02 AM
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is it better to run it thru on a hot or cold engine.
 
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Old Oct 28, 2005 | 07:06 AM
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I usually run it thru a hot engine.
 
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