Re: The best way to use seafoam...
What's really cool about ingesting seafoam into the intake is a bunch of the crap that it loosens lands on the spark plugs, they don't get changed and it runs chitty and gets worse gas mileage. When it's dumped in with the oil, and if you've got an older motor that hasn't had the oil changed regularly and it's kinda crusty on the inside, you loosen up some of this crud and it is possible to plug an oil galley and in fact, unlucky guys have had this happen. Nothing is more fun than trying to fix something and creating a genuine problem, such as oil starvation, low oil pressure, clattering lifter, etc. Just a little something to think about before throwing a bunch of that sea douch into an engine. IMO, the only time you really want to use this stuff (Ford PM-# cleaner ideally) is to do a thorough intake cleaning on the early OHV 4.0's where they were known to build up carbon in the CC's and ping/knock. This is the subject of a TSB and to make sure there was no risk of hydrolocking the engine, the PM-# was ingested via a much smaller tube than the one on the power brake. Just a little food for thought here. Cleaning on the outside sounds harmless, that's not always the case.
*If the makers of that stuff had their way, they'd be putting it into the drinking water and raising the rates consumers pay.
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Last edited by cowboybilly9mile; 04-07-2013 at 01:18 PM.
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