"MM54" (mm54mk2)
09/21/2015 at 19:55 • Filed to: None
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"MM54" (mm54mk2)
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Now, I’ve run a lot of Seafoam through the fuel systems and intakes of a lot of cars, but that doesn’t mean I’ve read the label. Typically for my crown vic, I’d put 1/3-1/2 a can in a full tank of gas (with worth-while results) when it was time for that sort of ‘tune up’ - reading the label today though, it suggest mixing 1 oz per gallon of gas - that’s just over a whole can for a tank of gas in my car!
Does anyone actually use this at such a ratio? If so, does it work better than, say, a third of that?
As an aside, for storage I have some in the tank of the Chevelle which worked out to like 5 oz/gallon (oops) and it smokes and smells like seafoam when running now, in addition to unburned fuel and oil smoke.
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(Also I recently discovered you can buy seafoam by the gallon, which is way more than I need but still tempting!)
TheOnelectronic
> MM54
09/21/2015 at 19:57 |
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IIRC you can avoid that annoying side-image thing by clicking and dragging the image after you’ve typed up all your text.
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MM54
> TheOnelectronic
09/21/2015 at 20:05 |
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I tried that and it duplicated the image, both of them still left-justified
Urambo Tauro
> MM54
09/21/2015 at 20:07 |
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If you use it regularly (especially on multiple cars), buying it by the gallon is a massive deal.
Although, the 16oz cans seem to have been coming down in price lately, and I am starting to see more competition for this kind of product...
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MM54
> Urambo Tauro
09/21/2015 at 20:11 |
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Yeah oddly it seems every time I buy it it costs less, which is backwards from just about anything else I buy.
I only have two cars, and one isn’t drivable right now, so I’ll stick to the small cans - when I seafoam other peoples cars for them (which happens more often than you’d expect), they buy the seafoam.
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Urambo Tauro
> MM54
09/21/2015 at 20:25 |
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Seafoam’s MSDS used to be more detailed, until they revised it to protect their secret formula. It appears to be a pretty simple mixture of isopropyl alcohol, naphtha, and diesel. You can read more about one guy’s attempt to produce a homemade version here: Homebrew Sea Foam (SeaFoam) Motor Treatment Recipe
The Compromiser
> MM54
09/21/2015 at 21:09 |
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I use it on the motorcycle. Every dose is a wild assed guess
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> MM54
09/21/2015 at 21:39 |
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I’m probably doing it wrong, but when I do any kinda fuel treatment, I’ll go until there is very little gas in the tank, then dump in the fuel treatment and half a tank or so of 93.
E92M3
> MM54
09/21/2015 at 22:58 |
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Are we sure all that smoke isn’t just a chemical in the product burning off? I can’t see how anything that diluted would help anything.
bhardoin
> MM54
09/22/2015 at 01:50 |
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I’ve never put in more than a third of a can per tank, and that got fuel flowing clean again after I had to let my car sit for a couple months.
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MM54
> E92M3
09/22/2015 at 07:32 |
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I’ve never had it smoke when put through the fuel system (except in excess quantity) but it does help smooth out idle and help a touch with fuel economy.
Through the intake smokes like a bad head gasket but it definitely helps clean, well, everything.
BobintheMtns
> Urambo Tauro
09/22/2015 at 08:38 |
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Wait, so seafoam, the “great saviour of engines from the scourge of ethano”l, is primarily alcohol too? Haha...
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E92M3
> MM54
09/23/2015 at 14:20 |
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I’m still skeptical. I think someone needs, to stick one of those tiny cameras with a light in their intake or in the combustion chamber thru a spark plug hole, and do a before & after seafoam comparison.
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MM54
> E92M3
09/23/2015 at 17:40 |
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I don’t know (or really care) if it would look cleaner - but I can tell you, from experience, that it does smooth out my idle. I have a lot of oil thanks to blowby in the intake, so after a few thousand miles my idle slowly but surely gets rough. Seafoam through the intake smooths it right out. Not positive that in the fuel it’s nearly as effective, but it can’t hurt to clean out the injectors and provide at least a little bit of cleaning to the backs of valves, etc.