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SEAFOAM
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 5:46 PM
Can someone tell me how to use it on our engines?
On my scort I just took off the brake booster vaccum line and let it sip it up till its gone

Any walk-throughs?



Re: SEAFOAM
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 6:03 PM
On my cavy i put 3/4 down the brake booster vac line and the rest in the gas tank.


My car--->http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2569452

Re: SEAFOAM
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 6:18 PM
Stupid question, but where is the brake booster vacuum line?
I should know this, I swapped this engine in myself, but I don't...


Re: SEAFOAM
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 6:29 PM
It's plainly visible. The large black drum on the driver's side should have a tube running to it. That's the vacuum line. Typically I get aquarium tubing and shove a length up the booster line and I put the other end in the bottle of seafoam. It's not a perfect seal, plenty of air rushes past the tube, but it's enough of a vacuum that it draws the seafoam into the engine. Since plenty of air rushes in there too, the fluid gets dispersed pretty well, RPMs increase and it doesn't choke the engine.

2002 Cavalier 2200 5spd

Re: SEAFOAM
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 6:33 PM
Solid Snake your a king, thanx much!
Now I just gotta find some


Re: SEAFOAM
Tuesday, July 17, 2007 10:04 PM
Most auto parts stores sell it.


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2000 Cavalier Coupe, 138k miles, 2.2 Auto, Silver (alive)
1999 Cavalier Sedan, 237k miles, 2.2 Auto, White (dead)
Re: SEAFOAM
Wednesday, July 18, 2007 12:16 AM
So you can just pour the Seafoam into the booster hose, and the engine won't hydrolock? Ir is it just more prudent to let the stuff dribble in slowly?



Re: SEAFOAM
Wednesday, July 18, 2007 11:38 AM
It's petroleum based so the engine still burns it. Just smokes alot


Re: SEAFOAM
Wednesday, July 18, 2007 11:45 AM
how long does it take for the engine to burn off all of it?



Re: SEAFOAM
Wednesday, July 18, 2007 2:39 PM
5 to 10 minutes at the most
restores compression, cleans out carbon deposits, it's wicked stuff, but I cannot find it anywhere


Re: SEAFOAM
Wednesday, July 18, 2007 2:52 PM
and NAPA doesn't have it? The one in Key Largo has cases of the stuff at the counter!


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We all drive in a yellow Cavalier...

Re: SEAFOAM
Wednesday, July 18, 2007 3:01 PM
hmm, I haven't checked NAPA yet, I checked out crappy tire, wally world, and parts source with no luck, next stop? Napa

Thanx again


Re: SEAFOAM
Wednesday, July 18, 2007 7:02 PM
Greg Z. wrote:So you can just pour the Seafoam into the booster hose, and the engine won't hydrolock? Ir is it just more prudent to let the stuff dribble in slowly?


vacuum coming from the brake booster doesnt really allow enough to hydro lock the motor (in a damaging way), however you will have to play with the throttle to keep it from stalling.


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Re: SEAFOAM
Wednesday, July 18, 2007 7:45 PM
Chris DeNisco wrote:how long does it take for the engine to burn off all of it?

Not long at all when i do my car i like to take her out and floor it it will make a nice smoke show bty


My car--->http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2569452

Re: SEAFOAM
Wednesday, July 18, 2007 11:29 PM
I've also heard that you can dribble water in that vacuum line as well, to sort of "steam" clean the carbon deposits off the valves and piston face. I'm leery of trying that one, but I will try the seafoam trick.



Re: SEAFOAM
Thursday, July 19, 2007 6:17 AM
never heard of that one Greg, i use seafoam on every vehicle i own and that stuff is amazing. Just make sure you do it in a well ventilated area or out in your driveway, cuz first time i did it in my garage = very bad idea! reason being it was like 50 degrees outside, and my garage was warmer.





Re: SEAFOAM
Thursday, July 19, 2007 11:35 AM
Yeah, you don't want to be running out of a smoking garage coughing up that stuff in plain view of your neighbors...


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Re: SEAFOAM
Thursday, July 19, 2007 7:13 PM
I trickled the stuff slowly into the air inlet to the injection, got lots of smoke, never seemed to really do anything for the engine though.
Re: SEAFOAM
Thursday, July 19, 2007 8:43 PM
I just used it on mine, and combined with a fresh oil change it makes a world of a different.
Awesome stuff



Re: SEAFOAM
Thursday, July 19, 2007 9:47 PM
to late, all the neighbors were out and about! so it was kind of embarrasing but it was my first time doing it on my first truck, when i was 15. pretty funny wish i would of video taped it.





Re: SEAFOAM
Friday, July 20, 2007 12:11 AM
I could only imagin what was running through their heads lol





Re: SEAFOAM
Friday, July 20, 2007 7:22 AM
they were kind of wondering why there was smoke comming out of my garage, at first they thought my truck was on fire but i reassured them that it was supposed to be doing that!





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