how often can you do seafoam???
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how often can you do seafoam???
i just did it yesterday, and te results were great. my car idle better and smoother. btw, how often do i have to do this?? every 30K, 60K, 90K, or 120K?? or can i just do this every oil change?? thanks guys 
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Everyday.
Seriously though.......I've heard of guys saying everything from once a year to every oil change to after XXXX amount of miles........seems to be a large difference of opinion on this.
For me it'd be once every few years - although I only drive my ride about 1500K a year.
Seriously though.......I've heard of guys saying everything from once a year to every oil change to after XXXX amount of miles........seems to be a large difference of opinion on this.
For me it'd be once every few years - although I only drive my ride about 1500K a year.
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I used Sea Foam a couple of days ago... I used the whole can... but not at once... I began to pour it through the Brake Booster hose with engine runing... (keep your thump on the hose to keep engine from stalling or over revving... I slowly let the vacum suck the sea foam in....until Hell broke loose!!! I nearly chocked my self to death with the fumes that came out!!! and it was outdoors with a slow wind!!...
turned the car off and sat for about 7 mins watchin how the smoke still kept coming out of my tail pipes.
After that time has elapsed I got in the car waited for no incoming traffic turn the car on and took off like a bat out of hell.... i didnt make it far though..... the fumes were so bad I actually got embarrased and park.... the incoming traffic had their lights on at about 3pm in a sunny day...
I am sure someone cursed me out too....
Then I crancked her up again and no more fumes came out... I used the remaining 1/3 of the can and it didnt smoke anymore... now it does feel very light on its wheels.... nice feel....
One thing though I pulled one of the spark plugs when it cooled off and it has lots of carbon deposites on it...
Marvin
turned the car off and sat for about 7 mins watchin how the smoke still kept coming out of my tail pipes.
After that time has elapsed I got in the car waited for no incoming traffic turn the car on and took off like a bat out of hell.... i didnt make it far though..... the fumes were so bad I actually got embarrased and park.... the incoming traffic had their lights on at about 3pm in a sunny day...
I am sure someone cursed me out too....
Then I crancked her up again and no more fumes came out... I used the remaining 1/3 of the can and it didnt smoke anymore... now it does feel very light on its wheels.... nice feel....
One thing though I pulled one of the spark plugs when it cooled off and it has lots of carbon deposites on it...
Marvin
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do a search on the the boards and you'll find a link to a walk through....by the way..i bought a bottle for $8 at napa...and put it in my gas tank and then i bought a bottle for liek $2 at smyth automotive...dunno if it is a local store or nationwide but that would save you some money...and well i put that through one of the vacuum ports on the engine...and it sputter and abotu stalled but i got the entire bottle down the tube and stuff and let her sit for liek 10-20 minutes and started up her up and went for a white smoke screen ride..ha couldnt see up my whole street...but face it..im only 17 with nearly no experience since everyone in my family takes their car to the shop instead of foolin with it and i did fine....so dont worry just find the link to the walk through and dump it in....you'll be fine...
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Originally posted by FlyBono24
Damn if I did that during the day I'd get pulled over!!! I better do it late at night when there is nobody around to call me in for smog (here in Cali there is a number you can call if someone is a polluter!)
Where do you put it into the system? Do you take off one of the tubes on the TB?
Damn if I did that during the day I'd get pulled over!!! I better do it late at night when there is nobody around to call me in for smog (here in Cali there is a number you can call if someone is a polluter!)
Where do you put it into the system? Do you take off one of the tubes on the TB?
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Originally posted by z28marine
where do u guys get your seafoam at?? and how did u apply it?
where do u guys get your seafoam at?? and how did u apply it?
Originally posted by Pandamonkey
Everyday.
Seriously though.......I've heard of guys saying everything from once a year to every oil change to after XXXX amount of miles........seems to be a large difference of opinion on this.
For me it'd be once every few years - although I only drive my ride about 1500K a year.
Everyday.
Seriously though.......I've heard of guys saying everything from once a year to every oil change to after XXXX amount of miles........seems to be a large difference of opinion on this.
For me it'd be once every few years - although I only drive my ride about 1500K a year.
anybody else do seafoam often??
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the guy that usually does the work on my car mentioned to me the other day as we were installin my loudmouth...which i love...that i should be using some sort of fuel injector cleaner in just about every tank of gas....and he said that the best thing and really the only thing that he would recommend is SEAFOAM...if i can get a few bottles for like $2.15 a bottle then i may start adding it to each tank....is this healthy? and then every other oil change ill prob run it through the vac port like that link shows....
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Originally posted by ThotYouKnew
the guy that usually does the work on my car mentioned to me the other day as we were installin my loudmouth...which i love...that i should be using some sort of fuel injector cleaner in just about every tank of gas....and he said that the best thing and really the only thing that he would recommend is SEAFOAM...if i can get a few bottles for like $2.15 a bottle then i may start adding it to each tank....is this healthy? and then every other oil change ill prob run it through the vac port like that link shows....
the guy that usually does the work on my car mentioned to me the other day as we were installin my loudmouth...which i love...that i should be using some sort of fuel injector cleaner in just about every tank of gas....and he said that the best thing and really the only thing that he would recommend is SEAFOAM...if i can get a few bottles for like $2.15 a bottle then i may start adding it to each tank....is this healthy? and then every other oil change ill prob run it through the vac port like that link shows....
gotta love that loudmouth
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I just used Seafoam for the first time the other day in my wife's Grand Am. I did 1/3 can through the brake booster hose and the rest in the gas tank. The car ran fine before, I just figured it would be good maintenance and might help the mileage a little.
As far as how often to use it... I think the can said every 2-3K miles.
As far as how often to use it... I think the can said every 2-3K miles.
