Seafoam
- Thread starter JZ67
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Yes and yes
How much is too much? From the other threads I read on here you want the highest concentration possible to make it actually clean anything in the fuel system. If you're using it in your oil you obviously wouldn't want to use too much.
Ed In Mississauga
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The recommendations are 1oz per gallon of gas. Generally around 1/3 can per tankful.
Ok I've always heard to ignore that recommendation. Maybe I'll start following it. I've run both my car and my bike off of almost entirely Seafoam before and never had any issues beyond lots of smoke.
I put one can of Seafoam into the gas on my car before storage, and after it comes out of storage with no issues.
Last time I used it I put 3 cans into my RS125 on a nearly empty tank of gas right after I got it. Only downside was it smoked up the whole neighborhood when I started it. Ran that for a day or two before filling the rest of the way with gas. Got really good fuel economy (about double what I expected to get) but I haven't used a 2nd tank in it yet due to the cold wet weather so I'm not sure if it'll be normal or not.
.. wait till you put some in a car through a vaccum line that has some good mileage on it.
You havent seen a smoke show yet .. lol. I tried it on my old dakota, let it run for 5 minutes and shut it off. Came out and fired it back up 30 minutes later, and the neighbourhood thought my house was on fire.
Coworker got another coworker to help him do that on his older Jetta. The guy doing the helping didn't realize that "let it slowly sip from the can" didn't mean "let it suck back half the can at once". It stalled out and once he got it started again it smoked like crazy.
Then they did the other guy's newer A3 and they did the same thing but the A3 just sucked it all back with no smoke, stalling, or drama.
Ninja10
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haha ya im about to do it on my 2000 jetta TDI...got about 250K KM on it right now. Since its diesel im expecting ALOT of smoke
Try it yourself and see .. it may not be for everyone.
The can and my Googleing said it was great for 2 strokes. The bike I put 3 cans into at once is a 2 stroke. Sure smoked a lot, though.
i've poured a whole can in at reserve and then flooded the engine to stall, left over night, works good. i've also used it as a fuel stabilizer, works good. made a huge difference on my riding lawnmower...
it's basically a fuel system cleaner. if you have other problems then it won't fix them.
it's basically a fuel system cleaner. if you have other problems then it won't fix them.
I use it in my weed eater.
Eye8Pussies
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also a great way to find any exhaust leaks from flex-pipes and gasket leaks
