How To Seafoam Your Car
03-14-2007, 08:12 PM
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I decided try out the Seafoam treatment on my winter car today. It's 1989 Ford Crown Victoria with 62,000 original miles. I thought it would be cool to set my DV recorder up on the rear window shelf to film the smoke screen.
I had to wait to get out of my neighborhood before going WOT, but it was smoking like crazy even before then. By the time I returned home the smoke was completely gone. Hopefully she picked up a little pep and raises the MPG a tad by doing this process.
Yes, I did the full treatment with the oil, and the deep creep, and in the gas.
The car is completely stock, except for dual flowmasters.
Now that I am more comfortable doing this, I will film the complete process on my WS6 in a few weeks.
I decided try out the Seafoam treatment on my winter car today. It's 1989 Ford Crown Victoria with 62,000 original miles. I thought it would be cool to set my DV recorder up on the rear window shelf to film the smoke screen.
I had to wait to get out of my neighborhood before going WOT, but it was smoking like crazy even before then. By the time I returned home the smoke was completely gone. Hopefully she picked up a little pep and raises the MPG a tad by doing this process.
Yes, I did the full treatment with the oil, and the deep creep, and in the gas.
The car is completely stock, except for dual flowmasters.
Now that I am more comfortable doing this, I will film the complete process on my WS6 in a few weeks.
03-14-2007, 10:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Rybo Flavin
Smoke Video
I decided try out the Seafoam treatment on my winter car today. It's 1989 Ford Crown Victoria with 62,000 original miles. I thought it would be cool to set my DV recorder up on the rear window shelf to film the smoke screen.
I had to wait to get out of my neighborhood before going WOT, but it was smoking like crazy even before then. By the time I returned home the smoke was completely gone. Hopefully she picked up a little pep and raises the MPG a tad by doing this process.
Yes, I did the full treatment with the oil, and the deep creep, and in the gas.
The car is completely stock, except for dual flowmasters.
Now that I am more comfortable doing this, I will film the complete process on my WS6 in a few weeks.
I decided try out the Seafoam treatment on my winter car today. It's 1989 Ford Crown Victoria with 62,000 original miles. I thought it would be cool to set my DV recorder up on the rear window shelf to film the smoke screen.
I had to wait to get out of my neighborhood before going WOT, but it was smoking like crazy even before then. By the time I returned home the smoke was completely gone. Hopefully she picked up a little pep and raises the MPG a tad by doing this process.
Yes, I did the full treatment with the oil, and the deep creep, and in the gas.
The car is completely stock, except for dual flowmasters.
Now that I am more comfortable doing this, I will film the complete process on my WS6 in a few weeks.
03-14-2007, 10:51 PM
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Originally Posted by bww3588
nice. i didnt know they put V6's in crownvics......
03-14-2007, 11:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Rybo Flavin
man, no joke, it's slow as hell but it gets me around and can haul a ton of crap. It's got a 5.0 liter, but not the HO 5.0...and Ford governs them so you can't go much more than 85 mph. It makes me appreciate my WS6 so much more when I am able to drive it.
03-15-2007, 07:06 AM
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Originally Posted by bww3588
it sounds like a v6.
03-15-2007, 11:36 AM
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Will doing the top end treatment dirty the oil? My car is in storage now and the oil only has 1k on it. I want to seafoam it before i drive to NC just so I know everything is tip top inside. Will the oil in there be a waste after I seafoam the top end and fuel system? It would be a shame to drain out cerman castrol with only a little over a thousand miles on it.
03-18-2007, 11:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Rybo Flavin
Smoke Video
I decided try out the Seafoam treatment on my winter car today. It's 1989 Ford Crown Victoria with 62,000 original miles. I thought it would be cool to set my DV recorder up on the rear window shelf to film the smoke screen.
I had to wait to get out of my neighborhood before going WOT, but it was smoking like crazy even before then. By the time I returned home the smoke was completely gone. Hopefully she picked up a little pep and raises the MPG a tad by doing this process.
Yes, I did the full treatment with the oil, and the deep creep, and in the gas.
The car is completely stock, except for dual flowmasters.
Now that I am more comfortable doing this, I will film the complete process on my WS6 in a few weeks.
I decided try out the Seafoam treatment on my winter car today. It's 1989 Ford Crown Victoria with 62,000 original miles. I thought it would be cool to set my DV recorder up on the rear window shelf to film the smoke screen.
I had to wait to get out of my neighborhood before going WOT, but it was smoking like crazy even before then. By the time I returned home the smoke was completely gone. Hopefully she picked up a little pep and raises the MPG a tad by doing this process.
Yes, I did the full treatment with the oil, and the deep creep, and in the gas.
The car is completely stock, except for dual flowmasters.
Now that I am more comfortable doing this, I will film the complete process on my WS6 in a few weeks.
03-20-2007, 01:49 PM
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Ive been reading through the posts, and I may have read through the answer...Im not sure.
I know the order in which things should be done. I just dont know the timeline.
Should I plan to do all this treatment in one day? Like go fill up, put the seafoam in the tank, come home, pour it in the oil, then pour it into the booster line, letting it die out... Then run the smoke out of it...
Like do it all at the same time? Or should I be putting it in the tank, running that tank out. Then put it in the oil...drive 100 miles...change the oil. THEN put it in the booster... etc etc.
Justin
I know the order in which things should be done. I just dont know the timeline.
Should I plan to do all this treatment in one day? Like go fill up, put the seafoam in the tank, come home, pour it in the oil, then pour it into the booster line, letting it die out... Then run the smoke out of it...
Like do it all at the same time? Or should I be putting it in the tank, running that tank out. Then put it in the oil...drive 100 miles...change the oil. THEN put it in the booster... etc etc.
Justin
03-20-2007, 05:58 PM
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Originally Posted by ghettocruiser
Ive been reading through the posts, and I may have read through the answer...Im not sure.
I know the order in which things should be done. I just dont know the timeline.
Should I plan to do all this treatment in one day? Like go fill up, put the seafoam in the tank, come home, pour it in the oil, then pour it into the booster line, letting it die out... Then run the smoke out of it...
Like do it all at the same time? Or should I be putting it in the tank, running that tank out. Then put it in the oil...drive 100 miles...change the oil. THEN put it in the booster... etc etc.
Justin
I know the order in which things should be done. I just dont know the timeline.
Should I plan to do all this treatment in one day? Like go fill up, put the seafoam in the tank, come home, pour it in the oil, then pour it into the booster line, letting it die out... Then run the smoke out of it...
Like do it all at the same time? Or should I be putting it in the tank, running that tank out. Then put it in the oil...drive 100 miles...change the oil. THEN put it in the booster... etc etc.
Justin
03-20-2007, 09:59 PM
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i had a lot of gunk come out the exhaust as usual the first time i did this and my O2 sensors ended up getting clogged because of that. so i had to buy new O2s. did this happen to anybody else?
03-22-2007, 10:03 PM
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as far as I can tell -- SEAFOAM screwed up my land rover's transmission. After putting it in the rover, I no longer have reverse. It seized up the valve body's reverse primary valve. yes, there were problems there before -- however, I had forward and reverse drives. LUCAS is better stuff for transmissions -- putting LUCAS in has helped get forward gears shifting correctly.
the salesman at the carcraft store swore by seafoam -- now I'm swearing at him..!!!!!
DON"T USE SEAFOAM UNLESS YOU HAVE A TON OF MONEY IN THE BANK TO SPEND ON NEW CAR PARTS....
GIMMICK!!!
the salesman at the carcraft store swore by seafoam -- now I'm swearing at him..!!!!!
DON"T USE SEAFOAM UNLESS YOU HAVE A TON OF MONEY IN THE BANK TO SPEND ON NEW CAR PARTS....
GIMMICK!!!
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03-29-2007, 11:39 PM
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lol cold surfer. your tlaking about gimmicks. what doy ou think lucas oil does?.. rofl.
ive heard of seafoam a few times but never tried it. i did use that gunk engine cleaner stuff a while back in the oil. but my oil didnt look in blacker than normal after the drain so i dont think that stuff works that well. anyhow im gonna try the seafoam tommorow or saturday. depending on when i get my bent driver side knuckle fixed
ive heard of seafoam a few times but never tried it. i did use that gunk engine cleaner stuff a while back in the oil. but my oil didnt look in blacker than normal after the drain so i dont think that stuff works that well. anyhow im gonna try the seafoam tommorow or saturday. depending on when i get my bent driver side knuckle fixed
03-30-2007, 08:48 AM
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Originally Posted by cold_surfer
as far as I can tell -- SEAFOAM screwed up my land rover's transmission. After putting it in the rover, I no longer have reverse. It seized up the valve body's reverse primary valve. yes, there were problems there before -- however, I had forward and reverse drives. LUCAS is better stuff for transmissions -- putting LUCAS in has helped get forward gears shifting correctly.
the salesman at the carcraft store swore by seafoam -- now I'm swearing at him..!!!!!
DON"T USE SEAFOAM UNLESS YOU HAVE A TON OF MONEY IN THE BANK TO SPEND ON NEW CAR PARTS....
GIMMICK!!!
the salesman at the carcraft store swore by seafoam -- now I'm swearing at him..!!!!!
DON"T USE SEAFOAM UNLESS YOU HAVE A TON OF MONEY IN THE BANK TO SPEND ON NEW CAR PARTS....
GIMMICK!!!
i would never put a foreign additive in my transmission. automatic transmissions are A LOT more sensitive than engines and the clearances are a lot tighter, not to mention there are A LOT more small parts. this is why trans fluid has so many more detergents in it than motor oil - you need to keep your trans CLEAN or else bad stuff happens. i wouldn't feel comfortable putting any kind of additive in my transmission, EVER, and i would recommend that you don't, regardless of brand.
seafoam for your engine, however, is time-tested, age-old and proven. it won't hurt anything. if you foul a plug or damage an O2, there were breaking anyway. if you read the bottle, it says "will not harm plugs or O2's". if they go out after seafoam, they were already going out.
03-30-2007, 08:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Rybo Flavin
I shot a new video of the smoke screen coming out of my 02 WS6 after doing the Seafoam treatment. The car has 32k miles, this was the first treatment.
VIDEO
VIDEO
"holy cow! holy God!"
i challenge anyone to watch this video and not laugh. i started cracking up when he said that then mashed the gas and smoked out the street
