Seafoam FTW!

[AlarmedBread]

Started with about 5oz distilled water, figured what the heck, worth a shot. Used the FPR line, sucked it up, out came steam like a bad hg, let it idle for a minute after and it all went away, seemed to run about the same as it did before, maybe a tad quieter. Did about 5oz of seafoam, let it sit 10mins then drove around, it smoked a little bit, white/blue in color somewhat like oil smoke, it plumed the first few times but within 5mins it was done smoking. All I have to show for my efforts is a CEL lambada code

[tn325i]

I just seafoamed my 318.. My god what a cloud of smoke......

[Jscotty]

you know if you doing it wrong. it wont suck it up....

Yeah.. that's what my ex-girlfriend said! :p

the VG33(or 30)E is a nissan motor. Unless you swapped a vulcan in there or something.

You are right. It is indeed a Nissan engine even though the rest of the van has several Windstar similarities. Someone else corrected me on that. The PO installed a bunch of under-the-hood stuff from a Mercury Villager so I assumed that it was a ford engine.

I actually read about the water treatment on another thread and I am in search of another guinea pig to try it on. I may still try that on the minivan even though I think I have gotten most of the crap out of the engine using the seafoam.

The interesting thing about that is when my cousin blew the head gasket on his toyota a few years back, we also decided to rebuild the head while we were at it. I can recall how amazed I was at how clean the valves were for a 200K mile car. At the time I figured that the head was probably rebuilt one time before and didn't think anything of it. But now it all makes sense- The steam from the coolant caused the car to smoke, thus cleaning the carbon buildup.

[VacMan]

Oh, and as a side experiment, I am going to Seafoam a rental car. I am going to run Seafoam through a clean engine to determine if that cloud of smoke is a result of a dirty engine or if Seafoam just smokes anyway. I am going to attempt to get the newest car that I can get. Preferably something with less than 5000 miles on it.

FWIW, we Seafoamed the Bronzit iS after I ran some injector cleaner and other junk through the first tank of gas after we bought it. It barely smoked at all! We are giving it a couple of weeks before we try again, but I was very surprised by the outcome. I do have to say though that the Bronzit car has a very strong, very smooth motor already so the PO's were probably pretty good with maintenance before we got it.

Tim

[AlarmedBread]

My neighbors are hippies, they have a garden, green house, and have open air concerts in their back yard every friday night, theres a chain link fence between where I park and where they hang out.

On my way to sea foam the beater now, I've had people recommend trying just plain distilled water into a vacuum line also, so I'll give that a shot, any one tried that?

[fretburnr]

i've had a can sitting on my garage shelf for 6months now. i gotta get to this.

[Belteshazzar]

I ran it through my beater Nissan minivan with the 3.0 ford engine and it drives like a new car! Well maybe not a

the VG33(or 30)E is a nissan motor. Unless you swapped a vulcan in there or something.


Anywho!.. I seafoamed the m10 yesterday. 233k on the clock and it's service history is a complete mystery after being bought at a police auction two years ago. I should have read the instructions I guess, but I dumped a third of it in the crankcase, and sucked the other 2/3rds through the fpr hose. I didn't let it sit or anything, I just held the throttle at 2500rpm and blew it all through. Huge HUGE clouds of grey smoke. I immediately hopped in the car and spent the next 15 minutes tearing around the neighborhood at 5-6000rpm. Lots of blue smoke while doing this. Eventually that went away though. Unfreakingbelievable difference. The engine revs soo much smoother, and doesn't bog at low rpm. I can roll into the throttle at 2000 rpm in 4th and it just goes. The car isn't any quieter neccisarily, and it always did idle okay, but it just feels happier to wind up now. Comparatively, it felt tired before.

I'm sold.

[moatilliatta]

intake to fuel pressure regulator. you know if you doing it wrong. it wont suck it up....

[vivalegreg]

haha word. im slowly but surely doing things to my newbie e30....and love every minute of it...just picked up a black leather sport seat out of a cab at the junkyard for 30 bucks, fully functional with one tiny not a big deal tear in it and then installed it in the car today (while i was hungover as shiiiiit from blacking out with soco last night, ugh) regardless i got it in and myessss it feels so nice to have a good frikkin sport seat under my bottom. :)

i went ahead and bought a can of seafoam today...i am going to seafoam za car this weekend...which vaccum hose to you guys use? one going into the intake mani?

[fwappy]

have fun with that....i just changed out my fan clutch and water pump on my 85 318 and holy crap that 32mm nut just wouldnt budge...

you need to do one of two things

1. have a fan clutch tool, with should make your life easier
2. your ghetto, and you dont feel like spending 40-50 bucks on a fan clutch removal tool...so you just get a 32mm wrench (usually one that isnt very wide since you dont have much room to get it in there in the first place) and some vice grip pliers to put on the pulley...get that wedged against the block, and take the nut off...usually you want to pb blast it a few times before attempting this since its probably been awhile since its last been taken off..

i did number two, and after a shit load of pb blaster...and a torch to heat that damn bolt up, it came off eventually. i nearly stripped that damn bolt taking it off. good thing i had a new fan clutch to throw in there cause i deff roasted the old one heating that bolt up.

and its reverse threaded, if ya didnt know. did you do the top end rebuild yourself? if you did then i dont need to tell you how to do anything. just felt like venting about my fan clutch / water pump job the other day.


so how are all the seafoamers cars out there? jscott?

Duh.. Yeah, I got it off in about 2 minutes. I think I've gotten good at it after doing 2 M20 heads and several cooling systems. ;)

[moatilliatta]

I do a can of seafoam threw the vacuum and a can in the tank ever other oil change.. 4k. OIL CHANGE- mobile one Delvac and Lukas. I do 2000 intervals considering that I usually have a auto-x on it and daily reemage.

[Jscotty]

and its reverse threaded, if ya didnt know

ROFL!!! I was about to ask you how long did you wrestle with that thing until you realized that you were going the wrong way. And I am laughing because I made the same mistake.

so how are all the seafoamers cars out there? jscott?

I am going in to Week 4 of my Seafoam experience and the car just seems to run very calm and smooth. I don't know if the Seafoam is progressively working better or if the car is just responding to the mild 75-80 degree weather that we have been having around here. I am going to give it one more vaccuum hose treatment to see if I notice a difference or if I can generate another cloud of smoke.

Oh, and as a side experiment, I am going to Seafoam a rental car. I am going to run Seafoam through a clean engine to determine if that cloud of smoke is a result of a dirty engine or if Seafoam just smokes anyway. I am going to attempt to get the newest car that I can get. Preferbly something with less than 5000 miles on it.

[golde30]

wow. it must suck to live around a bunch of busy body white people who get all in your business. in my experience, older white people are just plain nosey. where i live is mostly asian nowadays, and they dont give a fuck what i do, unless its directly at them. seafoam, gas fire, fireworks, paintball war in middle of street, burnouts, whatever, as long as i dont touch their property, they could care less.

[Jand3rson]

Tru dat. They don't know I don't own it...

I'll just go post flyers the day before I do it. :D

[Jordan]

Well as a home owner I can tell the neighbors to go F themselves with no fear :)