well, you need to seafoam your stuff every few thousand miles. believe it or not alot of carbon and other junk build up in your intake causing sluggish response, hard starts, and also prevent your motor from reaching its full potential and efficiency.

 

i use this stuff sooo much. Works AWSOME!!

 

 

Still use it... Still recommend it... There's no novelty factor, the results of running it through the intake speak for themselves.

 

Thanks guys. Ran it through my 99' Honda Accord 4cyl last night. I did a bottle in a full tank of gas about a week ago, then put half a bottle in the crank case two days ago, and put the other half through the intake via the PCV valve last night. Only smoked for about 5 minutes.

There was some pinging and hesitation prior to my doing the SeaFoam. After the smoke cleared I went for a nice spirited drive to blow it all out and now the pinging is gone. I'm usually skeptical of "snake oil" treatments but this appears to be the real deal.

I changed the oil in the Accord today, and it wasn't chunky or anything like others in this thread reported, it was just a tad darker than it was before I put it in. I ran it in the crank case for about 150 miles before changing the oil.

All in all I think for $6 a can you can't go wrong with this stuff. Sure beats $20 for BG44K.

 

seafoam rocks.

i run it through the brake booster lines on my 22re and 3vze. also in the tank and in the crankcase, but when i put it in the crankcase i usually let it sit in there for about 50 miles before i change the oil. the first time i did that i was surprised how much longer my oil stayed looking like honey. seafoam is probably one of a small group of additive products out there that isn't total bs

 

Why is it I "need" seafoam? Makes no sense... regardless of what others "experience". Maybe I need another 100,000 miles to figure it out.

 

you dont have to run it. But for 6 bucks a can its worth a try to see if it cleans anything out. If you motor is already fairly clean, liek other said, u wont really notice. Like i said a long time ago, we dumped a half a can into the throttle body in my friends 4.0 rokee and it made it run 1000x better. Every time you would give it a quick rev it was stumble bad then rev up. it would literally fall on its face before it started going. After about 30 minutes of running and waiting for it to stop smoking it ran awsome. The stumble was completely gone and it idled way nicer. we brought that engine back from some huge neglect from the previous owner.

 

My experience has been that if you keep simple maintenance up to date, you will never need extreme measures like seafoam.

In my case, Rotella T and a good upper cylinder lubricant such as Techron in Chevron or Lucas Oil additive (occaisonally) seems to preclude the need for seafoam. I do not like the idea of running seafoam or anyother additive thru my injection system. But that is just me, apparently.

 

i would not say seafoam is "Extreme" at all. in fact, you cant prevent every bit of buildup etc, in your truck, and why not, if there are over 400 posts on this, 90% of ppl say its GREAT, the other 10% are asking questions on it, then WHY WAIT!???

 

The idea that someone having a "problem" should first try a "cleaner" obviates an understanding of how the system works... how the motor works.

But I could be wrong.

Otoh, how do I now that the posting here is not a matter of hype. Not to accuse others of dishonesty, but it seems to me everyone here uses "handles". Why?

I give you my experience. Cleaners are like laxatives. Wrong solution.

 

I've heard of an old mechanic's trick of just pouring water slowly into a hot engine and shutting it off, lettting it sit and then starting it. Supposedly it does the same thing. At the toyota dealership I work at, we use a GM upper engine cleaner, all the import dealerships that are attached to ours use it too. The stuff works the same as seafoam, the process is called hotsoaking from what I've found doing a little research. I think if its slow this saturday I'm going to use that gm stuff on my 22re at work, just because its cheaper than the seafoam (read: free for me)

 

i did it just for the smoke....duh.

fact: my 3.0 is much quieter after seafoam, throttle response is quicker. mpg??? it burned more gas per gallon than my '04 4.7L V8 Ram1500 before seafoam any way, i don't expect the mpg goes anywhere, neither do i care.

 

I just used Sea Foam in my 87 4runner 22re. The smoke was crazy!!! The look on the neighbors faces as they drove by was priceless It seem to run better from the get go. I hope it keeps it up. I also added the rest of the can to the gas tank. My father in law used to poor transmission fluid down the carbs on his old cars to clean out carbin, it would smoke like hell too. Don't know if it worked but it sure is fun making all that smoke.

 

What would you suggest....an enema?

Maintaining some anonymity does not necessarily imply dishonesty, but I will give an honest opinion.

It's highly marketed, overpriced a bit, and probably overrated a bit. But, it does help. Carbon build up happens to one degree or another. Why do you think there is a ring on the piston just for scraping the junk off the cylinder to be burned in combustion? I'm getting some blow by through my intake from leaky rings. I have some ways of dealing with it until I can address the rings, but for now Seafoam does help clean the crap out. It's a band aid, but sometimes band aids can be of use....just like laxatives. I'd rather take a laxative than an enema any day. Herbals for me, though....

 

Well i gave my runner a good sea foam bath this afternoon. I put about half the can in ( on accident) i ran and turned off it off real quick and then i let it sit for about 5 mins. well i went out and went to turn it on and it turned on just like normal and it sounded kinda choppy and i gave it some gas and it stalled. when that happened i almost crapped myself because i thought i hydro locked it. well i was tryin ot turn it back on and it took it a good 5 to 10 seconds ot turn back on. well as soon as it turned on it billowed smoke for about 20 seconds and then it cleared up. thank god lol

 

where is the pcv hose on my 22r? is it one of the 2 hoses that goes into the top of my valve cover? i dont know if it makes a difference but it has a weber carb. this seafoam sound nice my truck will love me. im getting about 14 mpg now :cry:

 

well i just drove my runner to wally world to get something and i noticed that when i put it in park and when i first turn it on it idles right at 1000 is this normal right after using sea foam or do i need to do something?

 

how do i get to my pcv valve on my 3.0. If im rite, its under my plenum and behind the egr valve. wtf

 

I don't know whether or not your question was ever answered, but here goes. The idle speed is dictated by how much air is allowed to bypass the throttle plate when it is closed. If the little passages were obstructed by crud in your intake, someone at some point in your trucks life span would have noticed the idle was low and opened up the idle adjustment screw a bit to allow more air past the throttle plate.

When you cleaned it, you removed the obstructing crud from and more air was allowed past the closed throttle plate, thus your idle speed increase.

To remedy this, simply turn down the idle adjustment screw again and restore the proper idle speed.