About to seafoam, wheres brake booster line?
#1
#7
#10
#11
#14
#16
Okay seems a lot of people don't understand Seafoam at all. For starters, there are instructions on the bottle, read them.
There's three injections methods for Seafoam, and they all do different things. You can put it in the gas, oil, or brake booster.
1) Gas - Cleans fuel injectors, fuel lines, removes moisture from fuel lines. May require changing the fuel filter sooner as the filter catches the junk.
2) Oil - Cleans out the buildup in your oil crankcase. Requires changing the oil filter soon after.
3) Vacuum (Brake Booster) - Cleans intake valves, cylinder, top of the piston, exhaust valves, etc. This is the most common method, and is the one which causes excessive smoking. May require changing the spark plugs sooner.
There's three injections methods for Seafoam, and they all do different things. You can put it in the gas, oil, or brake booster.
1) Gas - Cleans fuel injectors, fuel lines, removes moisture from fuel lines. May require changing the fuel filter sooner as the filter catches the junk.
2) Oil - Cleans out the buildup in your oil crankcase. Requires changing the oil filter soon after.
3) Vacuum (Brake Booster) - Cleans intake valves, cylinder, top of the piston, exhaust valves, etc. This is the most common method, and is the one which causes excessive smoking. May require changing the spark plugs sooner.
#19
Okay seems a lot of people don't understand Seafoam at all. For starters, there are instructions on the bottle, read them.
There's three injections methods for Seafoam, and they all do different things. You can put it in the gas, oil, or brake booster.
1) Gas - Cleans fuel injectors, fuel lines, removes moisture from fuel lines. May require changing the fuel filter sooner as the filter catches the junk.
2) Oil - Cleans out the buildup in your oil crankcase. Requires changing the oil filter soon after.
3) Vacuum (Brake Booster) - Cleans intake valves, cylinder, top of the piston, exhaust valves, etc. This is the most common method, and is the one which causes excessive smoking. May require changing the spark plugs sooner.
There's three injections methods for Seafoam, and they all do different things. You can put it in the gas, oil, or brake booster.
1) Gas - Cleans fuel injectors, fuel lines, removes moisture from fuel lines. May require changing the fuel filter sooner as the filter catches the junk.
2) Oil - Cleans out the buildup in your oil crankcase. Requires changing the oil filter soon after.
3) Vacuum (Brake Booster) - Cleans intake valves, cylinder, top of the piston, exhaust valves, etc. This is the most common method, and is the one which causes excessive smoking. May require changing the spark plugs sooner.
#20
If anything you may want to just pull out a spark plug and check it out afterwards, or change your spark plugs a little sooner than you would on your regular maintenance interval.
Or heck, if for some weird reason you saved your old spark plugs, re-install them, seafoam, and put back the new ones.
#21
I've read that Seafoam only fouls the spark plugs if they are already in a bad condition to begin with, if that's true or not I have no idea. I wouldn't worry about it though. I know most people don't change their spark plugs after using Seafoam, and haven't really read any complaints.
If anything you may want to just pull out a spark plug and check it out afterwards, or change your spark plugs a little sooner than you would on your regular maintenance interval.
Or heck, if for some weird reason you saved your old spark plugs, re-install them, seafoam, and put back the new ones.
If anything you may want to just pull out a spark plug and check it out afterwards, or change your spark plugs a little sooner than you would on your regular maintenance interval.
Or heck, if for some weird reason you saved your old spark plugs, re-install them, seafoam, and put back the new ones.
#23
high mileage
Hello all,
I have a 2000 3.0 4x2 automatic ford ranger with over 230k miles. I am fairly sure it has never been seafoamed using the brake booster method. I use gumout, marvel mystery oil, seafoam and Lucas ethanol treatments in the gas tank all the time. Here's my question though I have never had a problem engine wise out of my truck in the three years that I've had it. The previous owner was a salesman and 210k plus miles are interstate miles. So my check engine light keeps coming on and it turns my 20mpg cool quick little truck into a slow chugging slug of a vehicle and drops me to about 13 per gallon... If I were to seafoam the truck using the brake booster method, would it clean up the carbon deposits that are causing my sensors to misbehave? Or would it mess up my truck? Again I put cleaners and solvents in the tank every 2-3 weeks and I use only premium gas. And advice would be helpful I just want my little buddy to have some pep in his step and get better gas mileage.
I have a 2000 3.0 4x2 automatic ford ranger with over 230k miles. I am fairly sure it has never been seafoamed using the brake booster method. I use gumout, marvel mystery oil, seafoam and Lucas ethanol treatments in the gas tank all the time. Here's my question though I have never had a problem engine wise out of my truck in the three years that I've had it. The previous owner was a salesman and 210k plus miles are interstate miles. So my check engine light keeps coming on and it turns my 20mpg cool quick little truck into a slow chugging slug of a vehicle and drops me to about 13 per gallon... If I were to seafoam the truck using the brake booster method, would it clean up the carbon deposits that are causing my sensors to misbehave? Or would it mess up my truck? Again I put cleaners and solvents in the tank every 2-3 weeks and I use only premium gas. And advice would be helpful I just want my little buddy to have some pep in his step and get better gas mileage.
#24
#25
Thank you sir!! I will be doing this tomorrow afternoon