Mavmavv

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.

9000th01ss

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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.

Black 99 Bird

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Is this true?

The Postman

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i've done it on my car once, made a huge difference....used about 2/3 of the bottle in the vacuum line off the brake booster

adam02gt

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Well I poured it in my tank and it's made a little bit of a mpg difference so far and it seems to run smoother and a little more responsive.

ericburt

What if you just pour some into the gas tank and thats it, is that good, if so how much would you poor in?

Mavmavv

Its basically just "cleaning" your injectors. Id put 1/2 a bottle in.

import_raper

kyles2000z

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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.

kc533

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Which is why you change your oil shortly thereafter.

kyles2000z

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i changed it about 50 miles later like the sticky says, but sludge that is STUCK in the oil pickup so thick doesnt just "fall out" when you drain the oil, thats how bad it was.

slayer_taunu

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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.

FirebirdFlyboy

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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.

ryan00z28camaro

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i had good luck out of it

LS1>girlfriend

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i dont feel or notice the plus sides everyone else seems to but i do love the smoke screen i leave down Main street

kyles2000z

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i change mine religously...i have no reason not to m dad owns a quick lube lol. the previous owner must have treated it very badly, machanically

406malibu

Yea I can tell you ever since kyle has owned the car it has been treated with the best maintenance, the car is show worthy inside and out, and since his father owns a quicklube id place money on the fact that the car has hardly ever (if ever) gone over its scheduled maintenance. I wont use seafoam, i dont like the idea of it, and knowing that likely caused his car to spin a bearing really didnt help the cause lol. I know a lot of guys have used it and been fine but ive also heard a good many horror stories as well (clogged cats, clogged oil pump, etc)



IF IT AINT BROKE DONT FIX IT im sure if you asked the guys with 200k + on this board most of them havent seafoamed.

BBADWS6

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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!

kyles2000z

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that manes its time to ditch them and get LTs w/o cats! i hope when they were "ruined", you still sold them as scrap bc they bring BANK!

406malibu

haha yea, i cant wait till mine clog they bring about 200+- a few, thats half the cost of some pacesetters.