View Poll Results: Seafoam my engine?
Hell yeah seafoam that bastard!
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Ummm no save your money.
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Seafoam engine? YES OR NO?
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Works just dandy. Done it on SBCs and SBFs, 1/2 can through the intake via brake booster line, other half in the tank.
Take your O2 sensors out though, its not good for them. Also change your oil soon after.
Take your O2 sensors out though, its not good for them. Also change your oil soon after.
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I've seen seafoam at a Walmart for $5.88, sure beats paying $8.50 at the parts store. That same walmart doesn't have it anymore though.
If you're thinking of doing it , it might be worth seeing if they have it if you're there grocery shopping or something.
If you're thinking of doing it , it might be worth seeing if they have it if you're there grocery shopping or something.
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i loved it until a year later i spun a rod bearing due to low oiling. the reason? the pickup tube was caked with sludge and oil wasnt flowing well under a long hard load. why? i believe from the seafoam cleaning everything up and then just dumping it back in the crankcase.
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i loved it until a year later i spun a rod bearing due to low oiling. the reason? the pickup tube was caked with sludge and oil wasnt flowing well under a long hard load. why? i believe from the seafoam cleaning everything up and then just dumping it back in the crankcase.
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i use it as a top engine cleaner, and in my fuel tank... but i'd be hesitant to use it in the crankcase. using a good quality oil and changing it at proper intervals should suffice.
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Sorry, but if someones engine is sludged so bad that they have it coming off and clogging the oil pickup, that just points to poor vehicle maintenance in the past and I feel no sympathy for the person (assuming it was actually their fault and not the previous owners that is). Oil doesn't just magically become sludge between oil changes, even if they go over the recommended change mileage by a bit. Someone has to seriously neglect an engine for it to sludge up like that.
I've done this procedure in the past and it works quite well so long as the directions in the write-up are followed. I've done it on my old `93 Trans Am and on my `99 SS.
I've done this procedure in the past and it works quite well so long as the directions in the write-up are followed. I've done it on my old `93 Trans Am and on my `99 SS.
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Sorry, but if someones engine is sludged so bad that they have it coming off and clogging the oil pickup, that just points to poor vehicle maintenance in the past and I feel no sympathy for the person (assuming it was actually their fault and not the previous owners that is). Oil doesn't just magically become sludge between oil changes, even if they go over the recommended change mileage by a bit. Someone has to seriously neglect an engine for it to sludge up like that.
I've done this procedure in the past and it works quite well so long as the directions in the write-up are followed. I've done it on my old `93 Trans Am and on my `99 SS.
I've done this procedure in the past and it works quite well so long as the directions in the write-up are followed. I've done it on my old `93 Trans Am and on my `99 SS.
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Sorry, but if someones engine is sludged so bad that they have it coming off and clogging the oil pickup, that just points to poor vehicle maintenance in the past and I feel no sympathy for the person (assuming it was actually their fault and not the previous owners that is). Oil doesn't just magically become sludge between oil changes, even if they go over the recommended change mileage by a bit. Someone has to seriously neglect an engine for it to sludge up like that.
I've done this procedure in the past and it works quite well so long as the directions in the write-up are followed. I've done it on my old `93 Trans Am and on my `99 SS.
I've done this procedure in the past and it works quite well so long as the directions in the write-up are followed. I've done it on my old `93 Trans Am and on my `99 SS.
IF IT AINT BROKE DONT FIX IT im sure if you asked the guys with 200k + on this board most of them havent seafoamed.
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If you seafoam a high mile motor, you may ruin your cats. I did my car at 100K, through the brake booster. I didnt hydrolock the motor, and the seafoam did such a great job cleaning the carbon out, it clogged my cats!
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