lol, the op is banned

 

I did one just a few minutes ago. Poured about a 3rd into the hose on the upper part of the intake tube and let it suck it in till it almost died, then i poured a little more and killed it. let it sit, started it up smoked like a diesel. Same on my second 3rd. But on the fourth one i went to the store while it sat for about 20 minutes. Started it up and it did the same as the other times, then i decided to drive it around the block. It smoked so much it would make an oil refinery jealous. When i looked behind me the whole street was foggy. I havent checked mileage yet but, the truck seems a better hard to tell in such a short time.

 

To all who see there are *currently 28 pages of reading. I've taken the liberty of carefully reading them all while being sick in bed.

To summarize: You WILL want to proceed with this beneficial maintenance of your vehicle.

However all data combined reveals no real long term issues; a procedural sets of plugs and O2 sensors are ideal if you have recently changed them. Indications of them becoming fowled or require cleaning afterward has been mentioned several times.

Worst-case-scenario directly linked to this procedure was "Hydro-lock", which occurred when allowing the vacuum line to pull directly from the solvent container. It is advised to pour or allow controlled suction from a clear container to visually see what is being consumed and at what rate to eliminate the possibility of hydro-lock.

2nd time using seafoam in 3VZE @ Booster, Oil, and Fuel. Still running clean and strong.

Best,

 

Sea foamed mine tonight. Smoked for about 20 minutes. White smoke billowing like crazy! Sucked it in from a vacuum line in the manifold. Might even try out another can to clean it a little mire thorough

 

did my first sea foam too. runs smoother for sure lots of smoke
when i added it to the pcv line untill it almosted stalled then turned off the key to let it set for a few minute the engine kept running for about fifteen seconds. It was running real rough has this happened to any one else

 

same thing happened to me, its called dieseling, the heat and pressure in the cylinder ignite the seafoam without the help of the spark plug

 

I did mine but the weird thing is it didn't smoke. I guess my motor must have been pretty clean..

 

First, does the plugs and O2 sensors getting jacked up apply to if a person just used seafoam in their gas tank and no where else?

Also is it possible to remove the O2 sensors and do this then put them back on. And for the spark plugs just remove them and use carb cleaner to clean them or should they just be replaced?

 

Just did a seafoam treatment .2 1/3 cans in the tank.1/3 in crankcase and 1/3 in the pvc tube. I ran it for 10 miles on highway and did a oil change . What a Hugh difference in the way it runs . It also help me locate an exhaust manifold leak. The runs smoother and has real nice throttle response . Now I must tackle this exhaust leak . And the oil cooler leak. Thanks to this forum for your help.


Mike

 

I'll just dump it in the break booster. Seems to me the verdict is still out of this stuff.

 

Been feeding SF through pcv and booster. The iridium plugs look clean.. no o2 issues. Cut my expired oil filter and pulled the oil pan discovering sludge. Cleaned a bit and refreshed gaskets. Running a small 1/4 can SF through 3 - 300 mile oil changes to safely remove the rest. Engine running like a top since the start of the cleanse. 3vz will be thoroughly tested climbing to the new huntin spot tomorrow.

 

Ok Ok... So I did NOT hydrolock my engine! But see if you can figure this out...

So my 91 4x4 22re has been slowly registering less and less fuel efficiency. Ive read some stellar comments about the Seafoam product, and figured it was worth a shot. Ive never used an injector cleaning product before and was hopeful for some improvement on my mileage.

I did about 1/3 a can atomized into the PCV hose, let sit for 10 minutes, restarted and tried not to breath the thick white smoke which billowed out. Just what I expected after reading the thread regarding Seafoam, right?

Well I put the rest in the gas tank and drove down to the fuel station to fill er up... As I was parked with the engine running I noticed the Temp gauge was off the high end of the chart! My fan runs all the time no matter what, so this was really surprising. The truck has never had a problem with overheating, in fact Ive never seen the gauge over 1/2 way.

As I began to drive away the temp slowly dipped back to normal. I thought this might be due to increased air flow, but was uncertain cause the fan is always on and it pulls a lot of air... Then as a test, I parked and watched as the temp needle went back to the red. However if I gave a bit of gas and kept it above idle, the temp started to drop again. Under normal driving the temp gauge was where it usually runs.

So what did the seafoam do? All I can figure is that perhaps it created a change that resulted in extremely lean mixture at idle...? Is it possible that I screwed up my 02 sensor? Clean throttle body now drawing too much air?

This is my only vehicle, and I depend on it daily. Its still driveable now, but Im anxious to figure this out and I dont want to cause any damage. Any thoghts or advice on what to investigate would be greatly appreciated!

And now I see that the original and persistent advocate of the product has been banned? What?

Cheers!

 

Is it burning any coolant? Does the engine idle normally at idle? Did you also add Seafoam to your oil? Have you reset and adjusted your rich/lean mixture at the MAP? Have you checked your thermostat?

 

Same thing for me tonight. I added a can (1 qt) to my crankcase and let it run for about 20 in the driveway and then added, veeerrrryyy slowly, a quart of it to my brake booster and I added it so slowly that it took me about 15 minutes to get through the entire bottle because I was afraid to lock the engine up. Then I let it sit with the engie off for about 25 min and started it up and it didn't smoke at all. I changed the oil immediately after but did not add any more sefoam to the crank case.

Just got back from the gas station a few minutes ago and put about 10 gallons of fuel in with a quart of seafoam. I'll let this tank run empty and then fill up again and check my mileage.

 

I have used seafoam before on several cars through the brake booster line and the gas tank, but never the crankcase. Just scares me a little bit. Well now my 4runner is about to recover from the milkshake (headgasket) and I'm considering this as a way to get all the coolant out of the block, along with a couple oil changes. Any suggestions?

 

planning on doing this within the next week, and i was wondering if somebody could direct me to the correct hose to put the seafoam in? thanks yall

 

^ anybody??

 

^^^^ill try to get pics...i would use the brake booster vacuum hose, but u can pretty much use any vacuum hose,.. seems the most common is the brake booster and pcv line

 

dont worry about it man, i figured it out. thanks though

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLx_1LrLfT0

 

87hillbillyoter,

Been a few days.....what's the verdict?