I was selling my civic to my friend for $300 after buying an accord. I decided to try seafoam which I had heard about recently to see if it would knock out this bad low rpm stutter that it was getting. I went to the autozone and got a can of it for around $5.
I had read about how to use it on several forums, but read the directions anyway.
Basically, you can either pour the recomended amount (1/3 can/pint) into a vaccum hose, like the brake assist or pour it directly into the throttle body, which I did since 4 screws put me right at the opening of the throttle body. After letting the car warm up as instructed, I poured 1/3 of the can slowly into the tb while slightly revving the engine to keep it from flooding out. When you are done putting the sea foam in you are then supposed to kill the engine and let it set for 5 minutes. My car started to smoke some before I killed the engine. After 5 minutes you are then supposed to run the engine to flush out the cleaner at which point the can gives the warning to use in a well ventilated area due to extreme smoking. After starting my car, billows of white smoke poured from the exhaust pipe, which seemed inline with most peoples experience. I rev'd the engine enjoying smoking out my neighbors wondering when it was going to stop...It kept smoking and smoking and smoking... I took it around the block and to the carwash giving the time for all the stuff to burn off. I was starting to think the stuff messed something up because it was still smoking some, but the low rpm stutter had completely vanished. On top of that, the standing idle was smoother than any other honda I had owned, mostly old ones. I also reset the ecu as recomended by several forum posts I had seen to adapt to the new running conditions.

In the end I took the car to my friend house and had him ride with me to my new car so I could explain any problems the car has. After dropping me off I followed him back to his house so I could see how bad the car was smoking. To my suprize it wasn't smoking one bit. I'm guessing that the catalytic converter had to play catchup for a while burning off the large volume of crap that it recieved.

Anyhow, I decided to write this, because I had seen many posts about seafoam wondering how it would treat their higher milage car and considering mine had 359k on it when I sold it today, that this might help clarify.

I still think there might be some things to consider when using this stuff. One might be the amount of crud burned out of your engine at such a rapid rate. Maybe it could clog the catverter or foul a sensor even though I didn't seem to have this problem.

I'm about to go put it in my 92 accord and see what happens with that.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by red92 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I was selling my civic to my friend for $300 after buying an accord. I decided to try seafoam which I had heard about recently to see if it would knock out this bad low rpm stutter that it was getting. I went to the autozone and got a can of it for around $5.
I had read about how to use it on several forums, but read the directions anyway.
Basically, you can either pour the recomended amount (1/3 can/pint) into a vaccum hose, like the brake assist or pour it directly into the throttle body, which I did since 4 screws put me right at the opening of the throttle body. After letting the car warm up as instructed, I poured 1/3 of the can slowly into the tb while slightly revving the engine to keep it from flooding out. When you are done putting the sea foam in you are then supposed to kill the engine and let it set for 5 minutes. My car started to smoke some before I killed the engine. After 5 minutes you are then supposed to run the engine to flush out the cleaner at which point the can gives the warning to use in a well ventilated area due to extreme smoking. After starting my car, billows of white smoke poured from the exhaust pipe, which seemed inline with most peoples experience. I rev'd the engine enjoying smoking out my neighbors wondering when it was going to stop...It kept smoking and smoking and smoking... I took it around the block and to the carwash giving the time for all the stuff to burn off. I was starting to think the stuff messed something up because it was still smoking some, but the low rpm stutter had completely vanished. On top of that, the standing idle was smoother than any other honda I had owned, mostly old ones. I also reset the ecu as recomended by several forum posts I had seen to adapt to the new running conditions.

In the end I took the car to my friend house and had him ride with me to my new car so I could explain any problems the car has. After dropping me off I followed him back to his house so I could see how bad the car was smoking. To my suprize it wasn't smoking one bit. I'm guessing that the catalytic converter had to play catchup for a while burning off the large volume of crap that it recieved.

Anyhow, I decided to write this, because I had seen many posts about seafoam wondering how it would treat their higher milage car and considering mine had 359k on it when I sold it today, that this might help clarify.

I still think there might be some things to consider when using this stuff. One might be the amount of crud burned out of your engine at such a rapid rate. Maybe it could clog the catverter or foul a sensor even though I didn't seem to have this problem.

I'm about to go put it in my 92 accord and see what happens with that.</TD></TR></TABLE>

nice first post, you may have a future here on H-T

i am also trying to learn about this stuff, heard pretty good reviews so far.

 

props. thanks for contributing to the community. i was under the impression that it wasnt in the cars best interest if it was higher mileage. now u set me straight! i am sure there is exceptions to everything though!!

 

May sound weird but a good place to learn a lot about seafoam and MMO and how to use them for good results would be on http://www.saturnfans.com , the older S-series Saturns had a problem with the rings getting stuck and almost every one on that forum has used it one time or another.

Almost forgot, as always to find the threads on that website, as any, is to use the search button.

 

Not as much luck in my accord as with the civic. I used the brake assist line to feed the seafoam into the engine and let it sit like before. Cranked up and smoked quite a bit, but not as much as my civic. Also replaced my air filter while I was at it and reset the ECU. To my dismay it seemed to have a rougher idle than before and seemed a little more sluggish to top it off. Going to replace the spark plugs and a few other things along with a due oil change. After I get all that done and try resetting the ecu I hope to see some improvement.

I would appreciate any other ideas to help.. I bought some new ngk plugs, got wires otw, oil change coming, already changed air filter and planning on a new egr since the store I went to didnt have it.

 

i still wouldnt want to try this on my 300k + engine.. have only heard a hand full of good outcomes with this stuff with high milage engines. good post though. its rare to have a first post not being flamed at all

 

I probably wouldnt if I was planning on using the car as my main transport, but since I was selling it for 300$ I figured I would give it a shot...I dont recomend it, just letting everyone know what happend when I used it.

I tried to avoid plugging the stuff, because I think anything of this type is "use at your own risk". Hard to flame someone when you just tell people what you did instead of what they should do I guess

 

I have an old junker cat that I plan to use the next time I sea-foam an engine. Dont want to clog up a working one. Good post, and welcome to HT.

 

true.. but iv seen it happen

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why not just unbolt the exhaust fromt he cat and run it like that till its done? saves you some work.. so its a little loud pfft