Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 7:37 pm Post subject: How-To: Seafoam your car
Okay since there is so much confusion on how to run Seafoam through your Escort, here goes:
1. Warm up your car
2. Pour Seafoam into a clear container (so you can see how deep the vacuum line is).
3. While the car is warmed up and still running, unplug one of the vacuum hoses. While you can use the PCV vacuum hose, its alot easier to use one of the smaller vacuum hoses since your car wont stall as easily.
4. Your car should still be running. If it stalled when you disconnected the vacuum hose, try again or use another line.
5. Take the vacuum hose and slowly bring it to the top of the seafoam you have in the container. Don't comepletely submerge the hose into the Seafoam, instead just allow the hose to go deep enough so that it sucks the Seafoam at a good rate (in other words, enough so that it doen't idle perfectly but doesn't stall either).
6. Once you have allowed the vacuum line to suck in the amount of seafoam specified on the bottle, submerge the vaccum line into the seafoam so that the car stalls.
7. Wait 5 minutes.
8. Restart the car.
9. You will get alot of smoke, and i mean alot! You can either just leave the car parked and rev the motor, or go out and drive it hard until the smoke stops coming out.
10. Thats it, you're done. You can also add some seafoam to the gas tank and to the engine oil. If you do add seafoam to the gas, it will probably clog up your fuel filter from all of the fuel tank deposits it will unlodge. So change the fuel filter afterwards. The can also recommends adding it to the oil right before you change the oil. So dont add any to the oil if you will not be changing it in the next 50 or so
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DavidSC1971 Paying Member
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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 7:42 pm Post subject:
friend of mine at work swears against seafoam. what are the pros and cons of it?
TheBlueScort
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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 8:06 pm Post subject:
Well thers been about 30 escorts using this stuff, nothing bad has happened to us yet, just better performece.
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Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 3:46 am Post subject:
someone here recommended that I not use synthetic oil since Im at 172,000 miles and had never used them... would you say the same for seafoam? If I've never used it, might the stuff it's supposed to clean be actually helping me, ala the carbon deposits?
thanks for the info
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Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2005 3:58 am Post subject:
Thanks StealthStyle. Nice post.
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DamnYourHonda
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Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 6:38 am Post subject:
I agree, nice post.
also i've used Seafoam to clean both my injectors and crankcase.
in the injectors it seems to smooth my idle(sound mostly, but feel as well.) a little bit.
With the latter, it felt like the car accelerated smoother into high speed.
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Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 7:14 am Post subject:
does it do anything for cleaning the outside of your motor as a degreaser? that would be cool. presure wash it into my engine bay and clean about another 10 lbs of drit out of it.
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DamnYourHonda
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Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 8:24 am Post subject:
go to discount, or any auto store and buy some Gunk Foamy Engine Brite, I use it under the hood about once a month. works wonders.
I use it under the car(oil pan, tranny, etc) once every few months.
cleans so well it looks like i just drove it off the lot.
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1997 LX Sport. All the bolt ons, auto-tragic - (R.I.P.)
1991 GT. Ugly, but fast.
Underestimated N/A - All the bolt ons, some experimental mods, and a few more goodies.(now taken off the road for further modding)
1994 GT. Pretty, but not fast.
Fully built suspension and braking system.
Ricer engine mods.
Build Ford tough, with Mazda stuff.
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Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 7:21 am Post subject:
Does anyone know if there's any issues with putting Seafoam in a Volkswagon? I told my friend what a good job this did on my Scort that he wants to do it on his Jetta. It's a 2000 2.0l gas Jetta. I know from past experience that Volks are different.
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orangepeel
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Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 7:32 am Post subject:
my neighbour has a 98 2.0l gas (i think) golf and he used sea foam on it and it worked out great
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Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2005 7:16 pm Post subject:
you can use seafoam on any car, i've heard of ppl using it in outboard motors, my mechanic introduced me to it a few months ago, he swears by it, and it does make a big difference
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Posted: Sat Jun 11, 2005 8:27 pm Post subject:
hehehe my buddy and i did it to a white aerostar van...... 3.0L of stalled out seafoam...... we reved the sucker and couldnt see it in the smoke.... wish we had a camera when we did it
lol.. the guy at Carquest where I got my seafoam told me he also needed to buy some... he was gonna put it in his lawnmower.... you can use seafoam on any gas engine.... don'T know anything about diesel... so no issues with volks unless it's a diesel...
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