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Old 06-10-2006, 11:45 AM
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Question Seafoam without plug change???

Can this be done, or is a plug change pretty much mandatory?

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Old 06-10-2006, 12:03 PM
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everyone here for the most part will recomend the change. i changed mine with ngk tr55's after running through seafoam and no issues.
Old 06-10-2006, 12:14 PM
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Yeah, but I did a plug change about 5K miles ago and don't want to hassle with it again if I don't have to. What could happen if they aren't changed? Should I just wait until I'm ready to change the plugs to do the Seafoam?
Old 06-10-2006, 12:23 PM
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I seafoamed about 10,000 miles ago and did not change my plugs.....car runs fine. Then again my seafoam experience did not produce a whole lot of smoke.
Old 06-12-2006, 03:03 PM
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Did the seafoam not too long after changing my plugs. Still runing on those same NGK plugs. Car runs fine, so I guess no problems here.
Old 06-12-2006, 03:19 PM
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Did the Seafoam actually do anything? I mean I'm assuming you can't feel the difference afterwards, but it still should be done, right?
Old 06-12-2006, 05:18 PM
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i did some seafoam with my shitty bosche platnum 4s in... but then again i got some tr 55 waiting to go in
Old 06-13-2006, 11:37 PM
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Anyone done this and had bad results from the plugs fouling? From what I can tell, its just a precautionary measure......right?
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I just did seafoam and it worked great did not change anything before or after
50,xxx miles on stock plugs prob time to change but still runs good!
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my last plugs seemed to run fine for the 20 miles they were in w/ seafoam
Old 06-16-2006, 12:14 PM
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i seafoamed my truck last nite doing the t/a tonite without a plug change although i do suggest you give it a good drive to help prevent the plugs from fouling. if you do not have to much carbon build up you should be 99.9% fine
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I was going to do it this weekend. Never done it before with 96K miles. Should I have a lot?


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