I've recently come across a posting on another website stating that this Sea Foam product is the best you can buy over the counter product for your car. I wanted to find out if anybody has tried it. Suppose to clean your fuel system and carbon/other buildup inside the engine. If anybody has tried it, please contact me with some feedback. Thanks.

 

i've seen it used on a mustang (not fuel injected) and it smoked like crazy for a few minutes, Supposedly burning the carbon off. A few of my domestic driving friends swear by it.

i looked for sea foam for fuel injected vehicles but have yet to find it.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by 93preludevtec &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">i've seen it used on a mustang (not fuel injected) and it smoked like crazy for a few minutes, Supposedly burning the carbon off. A few of my domestic driving friends swear by it.

i looked for sea foam for fuel injected vehicles but have yet to find it. </TD></TR></TABLE>

Same thing. Auto Zone has it. We used it in a 90 Accord that was burning oil like no tomorrow. We ran it thru 3 times... seemed to help somewhat with the oil consumption (guess the carbon on the rings helped make a gap or something)

 

i haved used it numereous times to help keep the egr ports from clogging up...works great for me!

 

I put it in my gas tank to stablize the fuel over the winter... it's supposedly better than STA-BIL. I dumped it in my jeep(winter vehicle) and man did it smoke like crazy for a few min...It will stall... then you start it back up and it smokes... seems like it runs a little better now though. It has 166k miles on it so I'm sure there was some carbon buildup I've also dumped it in the gas tank of my car to clean the injectors etc... don't know if it does anything though.

 

i've used it too
seemed to work alright
but i don't think i was revving it high enough when i was putting
it into the i/m so it didn't really smoke that bad

 

Anybody with other "good" experiences with additives? Any recommendations? Thanks.

 

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seemed to work alright
but i don't think i was revving it high enough when i was putting
it into the i/m so it didn't really smoke that bad </TD></TR></TABLE>


it's only suppose to be idling when you put it in.. then you turn the engine off, let it sit for 5 mins, and then fire it back up. if you use the 1/3 bottle like they say, it will smoke like crazy lol

 

i'm kind of afraid of seafoam.
i used it, and it sucked it up a vacuum line, then the car stalled out.
ok, thats supposed to happen.
wait a bit, and start it back up, and it idles okay, and is smoking like a ************. so i let it sit and idle for a full ten minutes.
then i decide to drive around the block. i get in and start to back up, and after oh 3 feet, it starts to buck and jerk like mad. then a big THUMP! and i see SMOKE coming out of the hood. i yank the key out of the ignition- and the CAR DOESNT STOP. if goes on for almost ten seconds, smoke pouring out of the hood, making very unhappy sounds.
finally it stops, and i pop the hood and see that every vaccuum line has been blown off the IM and there's still smoke pooling out of the intake filter.

the engine ran BACKWARDS. somehow or another. and then it dieseled. still going backwards.
it was freaky.
whats even freakier, is that after reconnecting and cleaning everything, it still runs fine. 250 compression across the board.

 

I have a hard time believing the engine ran backwards... I gotta call BS on this one.

But I have been wrong before...

 

well after using it you are supposed to drive it around for a few minutes to let the **** burn off, not let it idle for ten minutes. if i'm not mistaken, Your experience was most likely user error.

 

lol. call bullshit if you want. it's not the first time i've seen an h22a run backwards. my roommate's did it as well. we saw that one do it-
but tell me, why else would an engine blast all the vaccuum lines off and then spout exhaust smoke from the intake and intake manifold, and continue running for 10 seconds once the key has been removed? i have no idea. it's the only thing that makes sense to me though.

as for user error, lord knows i've done some stupid **** working on cars- but i followed the directions to the letter. in fact, i'm looking at the bottle now. all it says is to restart engine after five minutes. i did. why would idlign ten minutes do somethign wrong? logically, wouldnt it burn the **** off?

 

um... seeing how H22's DO NOT use direct injection into the cylinders, there's no way it could run backwards. There would be no fuel getting into the combustion chambers since it's injected into the incomming air charge in the intake manifold runners, rather than into the cylinders themselves. The gas & air mixture would be sent out the intake track and out the filter, and the engine would be sucking in exhaust gas to run off of. The only hope of this being possible would be if the exhaust was full of fuel etc, but even then that's *VERY* near impossible because the engine wouldn't just magically stop spinning one way and start turning the other. Even knock (pre-detination) which would be damn near the only thing that would cause your engine to go backwards just bends rods and screws it all up, not makes it run backwards. I think the only way to go backwards with it is to have it in a forward gear and have some big truck push your car backwards.

 

I agree, you need fuel to run, and there's none of that on the exhaust side

 

Has anybody tried using on their Honda yet? If so, can I get some direction on what to do on this?

"Pour sea foam into direct manifold vacuum line that will feed all cylinders, possible sources are P.C.V. valve or brake booster line."

I'm not really a mechanic but hope your guys can help me. Thanks.

 

have you not ever heard of back fire(out the intake)? If you have ever worked on a carb. system then you know what i'm talking about.
No, you don't want to use the brake booster line do to it's size, just use one off the tb behind the throttle plate(smaller, easier on the engine).
The engine started turning backwards. That is funny, if it did that then things should have gotten ugly (bent/broke rods for example). As for the run on that could be from the carbon being heated to burn off, or that a valve had a hot spot on it (generally from carbon)

 

Putting a distributor in 180` out with carbs makes for nice flames out the carb!!!

Heh.. been there done that.. a few times infact..

Puddling N20 in your intake/throttle will make for s nicer more dramatic fire out the intake effect..

 

so how you put it in just stick the vaccum line in the bottle or what

 

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disconnect your vaccum line from the brake booster to the im
and pour it in there

 

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it's only suppose to be idling when you put it in.. then you turn the engine off, let it sit for 5 mins, and then fire it back up. if you use the 1/3 bottle like they say, it will smoke like crazy lol</TD></TR></TABLE>

that's how i did it

 

Finally tried this sea foam on my car this week and to my surprise this was actually a pretty good product. My car felt more responsive after using this treatment and it really did smoke like crazy...lol. I would recommend to people with high mileage on their engines to use it. I have 170K on my H22 and after using 3 bottles (1 for each of the treatment in different locations), the car feels more responsive when I'm gasing it and smoother/quieter during idling. Anybody have other experiences using similar products?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by shaiboyr &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Finally tried this sea foam on my car this week and to my surprise this was actually a pretty good product. My car felt more responsive after using this treatment and it really did smoke like crazy...lol. I would recommend to people with high mileage on their engines to use it. I have 170K on my H22 and after using 3 bottles (1 for each of the treatment in different locations), the car feels more responsive when I'm gasing it and smoother/quieter during idling. Anybody have other experiences using similar products? </TD></TR></TABLE>

Bs

 

I use Techron and Seafoam in the gas to keep the injectors clean and carbon deposits out of the combustion chambers. Those two products are the only type of additive that I use, most of the others are junk or worse.

 

the only honda recommended fuel additive is chevron techron. i use it every 3k. after pulling my I/M of of a spare motor that i had the injectors and int. valves were absolutly amazing. i should have taken pictures. my shop foreman even could not beleive that my inj. had over 100k on them. and the valves were like new. the stuff really works.