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post Mar 31, 2012 - 3:19 PM
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I've heard that seafoam is a really good and easy way to clean the car up a bit. When I go look at videos and ask people they tell me pour it into the Oil crank case, Brake booster, and fuel tank. It sounds stupid to pour something that doesn't belong into the brake booster and espescially the crank case. I just want to know if anyone has ever used it and does it really work or is it just stupid.


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post Apr 1, 2012 - 9:15 PM
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Never heard of putting it in the brake booster.

The danger of Sea Foam isn't the Sea Foam itself, but the gunk (varnish from gas or carbon deposits from gas or oil) it cleans out. Sea Foam in the crankcase means that it will clean out deposits from the oil system -- which is good, unless a deposit is plugging a small flaw in a seal. In that case, you removed a carbon deposit and revealed a leak; that's what happened to me, and I ended up with my slow leak from the oil pump seal becoming a fast leak. It didn't change that the seal needed to be replaced, it did change how quickly I had to get it done.

Sea Foam will reduce the viscosity of your oil, but not to the point of it being incapable of protecting your engine if you follow proper dilution procedures. That said, I would still change my oil within a couple days after using it because of all the crud the treatment will transfer from the engine into the oil, or sooner if it's the first time the treatment's being done on an old engine.

Sea Foam in the gas or via the intake is much less of an issue. If your fuel system is heavily gunked, then there's the possibility you could loosen something which will plug an injector. However, modern gas with all its additives makes that improbable, particularly since the introduction of ethanol to the gas supply (ethanol is very good at removing built up varnish). Being more powerful than your standard fuel additives, however, it will be more capable of removing the baked-on deposits in the combustion chamber.

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- ILoveMySilly97   Is seafoam safe?   Mar 31, 2012 - 3:19 PM
- - Special_Edy   Ive got a special tool that screws into the seafoa...   Mar 31, 2012 - 4:20 PM
- - njccmd2002   environmentally safe   Mar 31, 2012 - 4:58 PM
|- - 3WayStunna   QUOTE (njccmd2002 @ Mar 31, 2012 - 4...   Mar 31, 2012 - 5:43 PM
- - richee3   Your car will smoke quite a bit when you run Seafo...   Mar 31, 2012 - 7:00 PM
- - kurt95gt   I beleave theres instructions on the can Ive ran ...   Mar 31, 2012 - 7:21 PM
- - Galcobar   Never heard of putting it in the brake booster. T...   Apr 1, 2012 - 9:15 PM
- - Box   I've used it before, and will soon on the Celi...   Apr 1, 2012 - 9:53 PM
- - RabidTRD   I've always done the 1/3 in the oil, 1/3 in th...   Apr 1, 2012 - 11:36 PM
- - Smaay   it dont go in the brake booster, you are just usin...   Apr 2, 2012 - 11:56 AM
- - rave2n   Seafoam..makes you think it helps, til it clogs an...   Apr 2, 2012 - 12:35 PM
- - Ted95   if your motor has high miles it may not be the bes...   Apr 2, 2012 - 1:59 PM
|- - RabidTRD   QUOTE (Ted95 @ Apr 2, 2012 - 2:59 PM...   Apr 4, 2012 - 1:36 PM
- - ILoveMySilly97   Thanks everyone. I've always had doubts in thi...   Apr 2, 2012 - 2:31 PM
- - nics   Just did mine last week. 237k engine.   Apr 2, 2012 - 4:42 PM
- - mandrek   have had GREAT results from using seafoam in all 3...   Apr 2, 2012 - 7:59 PM
- - ricochet1490   From a 6gc member (notice sticker in window) http...   Apr 6, 2012 - 6:50 PM
- - zfjohnson07   its safe, heres my video i did http://www.youtube...   Apr 6, 2012 - 9:06 PM
- - CruznKnFuzn   Thank god I found this thread haha I'm about t...   Dec 9, 2015 - 6:06 PM
- - VavAlephVav   I learned the hard way in a different car that sea...   Dec 13, 2015 - 6:40 PM


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