Modified by CardDealer at 3:52 PM 11/17/2006

 

i work at a honda dealer and ive never seen it done

 

Modified by CardDealer at 3:52 PM 11/17/2006

 

Spend $6 on a can of sea foam. Besides I wonder how good the flush is since I doubt that they use it while the engine is running. You can find sea foam at napa, carquest and advanced auto.

 

I want to know more about this... I heard many stories good and bad about sea foam?

 

You should check out the oil engine flush stuff sold by AMSOIL...

 

how many miles are on your car? ive heard that its bad if you have quite a few (150k). that grime and those deposits have worked their way in and help "hold" your engine together; at least thats what i was told. if you want to flush your engine, change your oil every 1k miles for 5k miles

 

sea foam????

 

Eglovr- thanks... the engine has about 50,000 miles on it... I suppose I'll do the oil change every 1000 miles or so to be safe, I'd rather have a dirty working engine, than a clean non-running engine...

 

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I just tried it for the first time last week. Engine was feeling sluggish, did not rev to higher rpms smoothly, etc. Just felt like it was starting to show its age. Engine has 110k, been using mobil1 for last 60k miles. Used sea foam through intake manifold and noticed small improvement, nothing major. Then used sea foam through gas tank and in crank case. Immediately noticed an improvement. Engine seemed to be smoother. Drove car with sea foam in gas/crankcase for a few days and changed oil. After oil change engine is much smoother, throttle response is much improved. Car is much more responsive.

Prior to using the sea foam, I was only getting about 29mpg on the highway. I'm on my first full tank since using it, so in a week or so, I'll know if it helped in the mileage department.

I had heard about sea foam probably a year ago. I did some research and read every comment that I could find about the stuff on the net. I did not read a single bad comment. Worse thing that I came across was one guy on one forum said "I didn't notice much of a difference." Found that everyone was using this stuff from domestics to nissans and even folks here on HT in the all motor forum.

So far I have to give it a

 

thanks kommon...
the negative feed back I've read was on older engines...I'll have to do a bit more research in this area...

 

i'm sure all the machine does is cycle new oil through.. you can do that by just draining the oil and then pooring in 2 or 3 extra quarts of oil with the drain plug open.. That should flush out any remaining crap. you can also use some engine treatment. they sell it at most parts stores or oil change places like valvoline..

 

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https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=755765

 

thanks...
this post could be worthy of saving...Hint Hint mods....

 

Another method of cleaning the oiling system is to pour a quart of automatic transmission fluid into the crank case. Drive the car for 15 or 20 minutes then change the oil. Transmission fluid has more detergents than motor oil.
Years ago I worked in a shop where the owner would do this to free up stuck hydraulic lifters in American cars. It worked like a charm.
If you've owner your car since it was new or had low miles and you change the oil at 3000 miles your oiling system should be very clean.
I've seen engines that had so much gunk built up that I wouldn't think of trying to flush the engine. The risk of having a glob of that crud come lose and block an oil passage was too great. I pulled the valve cover off a '62 Nova 6 cylinder one time. I swear there was gunk and crud built up from the head to the valve cover. Only the area where the rocker arms moved was empty. The rest was solid crud. I put the cover back and refused to flush the engine.
You can look inside your oil filler cap to see if you have any serious buildup before flushing.

 

search: seafoam

 

Seafoam? Try Amsoil... at the following link. http://www.amsoil.com/products/aef.html

 

actually i just used seafoam right now, and the results are great, more throttle response, smooth idle, goes thru the rpms consistantly, no hesitation, smooth revs. seafoam works wonders, its the best 6 dollar investment ive made