Thumbs up on seafoam!
 

I dont know if it was the huge smoke screen me and my brother made that made it so fun. Or the hot air and the hot engine burning my hands.

I give seafoam a huge thumbs up. :icon_tup:

It worked great.

lol, the smoke screen went over to the highway (youree drive), coverd it all up :rlaugh:

ok how much gas did you put in when you used it? b/c i just put it in my tank when i was on e and then added 7.5 gall b/c that is all the $25 gift card i had allowed for and i have yet to see smoke but i have been driving rather hard any reason y i wouldnt?

milton, it sounds like he added it directly to the engine through a vacuum line. That will produce lots of smoke. I prefer adding it to the gas tank instead, but at a high concentration (like mixed with 1/8 tank of gas), then take her out and drive it like you stole it. Works great, I do this every six months or so and always feel an increase in power...

Yes, milton, if not expierenced.

Drive the gas tank down to 1/8th of a tank. and poor a whole can into the gas tank.

If you do it through the intake on a carberator, you have to have a person holding the rpms high becuase it lugs the engine down.




-nick-

thanks you and sorry for thread hijacking

nono, I dont mind it at all, thats why I made the seafoam thread, because people usally ask questions about it who were not here for very long.

what exactly is it, i just saw this thread and am completley lost about what this is. uhh what is it lol?

stupid double posts...edited

Seafoam is a fuel system/combustion chamber cleaner. It does an excellent job of removing carbon deposits which tend to jam up the apex seals and reduce compression...

yes i do agree ive used it as long as ive had my car, ive done both through the carb and the fuel.... i love this stuff

Another Firm Believer!..I'm glad I tried it!..it's got my vote as a Real Product..Not a Snake Oil.

oh okay thanks! sounds great. and since it can be used through the fuel system means it should be safe for my injectors on my FC right?

Close one, I bet he was on his way to the beach to capture some of that "foam" that washes up on the sand.... (wipes forehead)

J/K Yeah I think the SeaFoam works very well..

I am going to get some to dump in my GSL, tehn. Woot!

New parts on the way, I got the leaky tire fixed, soon I'll actually be able to drive the thing. :D

not to hijack a thread, but could a stuck apex seal cause high rpm/ high load situations to make the car sputter and "knock"? when i listen to the exhaust it sounds like every 3rd cycle or so, it cuts out... im gonna have to try me some seafoam though, ive used bg products but never seafoam, ive heard nothing but good things

FCKing1995 -

Seafoam won't hurt, but I don't think it will fix your problem either. Sounds to me like an ignition issue, possibly old plug wires are sparking across each other causing what is known as "crossfire". This is where the spark jumps from the right wire, to a different plug wire, causing it to fire at the wrong time. This is very bad for your motor. Try routing the plug wires very carefully to avoid contact with each other. Also, start it up at night and move them around while watching for sparks. Get that fixed right away.

I use seafoam in everything I have every 2 oil changes.

Kentetsu-

SHHHH! dont say anything, maybe it didnt hear you... I was fearing an ignition problem. What would be your guess as to what id need to replace? I looked inside the rotor cap and everything in there looked ok (never dealt with rotary rotor caps and buttons, but it looks pretty much to same as a piston engine one) the plug wires do look a bit ratty, they are blue ngk, but i dont think they are touching each other. but i will take your advice and do a nighttime search in the engine bay. what kind of damage could this cause? hopefully nothing that cant be fixed with a rebuild kit since itll be getting a rebuild soon anyway. but why wouldn the engine do it under all conditions? maybe the wires moving around only touching every now and then? sometimes ill accelerate and it will do it at 4,000rpm, then others not till 5 or 6,000rpm... sometimes it does it at take off at 1,000-2,000rpm. almost always over 50% throttle, especially high gears where load is much higher. passing on the interstate at 70mph, it only takes about 20% throttle for it to do it. sounds like someone putting a rock in a coke can and shaking it around

-Jesse

If the car makes a winding annoying noise, and backfires constantly when you go to let go of the gas. you blew an apex seal.

Its not like the normal sound, its really really annoying sound.

Start with a check of your timing chief. The sound of a pebble in a coke can is a dead giveaway (your timing is too far advanced). You can make a manual adjustment of the dizzy if you don't have access to a timing light though. It won't be perfect, but you can get it close enough that you won't destroy your motor. Looking at the top of the dizzy, you're going to want to rotate it counter clockwise just a hair. If you picture the face of a clock, you're going to want to move it about 3 to 5 minutes worth. Know what I mean? Make sure you go the right direction. Then take it out and see how it feels/sounds. Might be an easy fix after all...

Timing was set a few months ago, its correct. I just ran a can of seafoam, and it actually made it sound worse... :wallbash: now at idle its even rougher and more choked sounding. sounds like it wants to fall on its face. its still missing, i have some new plugs and wires are on the way, along with fpr... if that doesnt fix it, oh well itll be rebuilt within the next few months anyway :squint: if it is an apex seal, will it hurt it to run it for another month or 2 like that? itll be rebuilt so i mainly mean any damage to housings/ irons or rotor?

If you have dropped a seal, the damage is done. Do a ghetto compression test, that will tell you if you have a bad seal.

take the spark plugs out.

and turn it over 1 crank at a time.

whats this ghetto compression test you speak of? :)

Take one plug out, crank and listen for 3 even puffs, do the same for the other housing.