How to: Clean your engine with seafoam!

Couple of pointers.

1. Change your oil within a day or two of Seafoaming the car. Better safe than sorry.

2. Pull your O2 sensors and cap their openings before doing this. Leaving them in will greatly reduce their effective lifespan.
 
oops i dont usually remove my o2 sensors. i dont think i have the caps for the holes so i dont have a choice :(
 
I have never heard of seafoam. can I get it at any auto parts store?
 
k thanks will get some tomorrow. Hopefully will give me some mileage back.

Should I really take the O2 sensors out and plug the holes? if so anyone know what size and thread pitch plugs to get?
 
gbean said:
k thanks will get some tomorrow. Hopefully will give me some mileage back.

Should I really take the O2 sensors out and plug the holes? if so anyone know what size and thread pitch plugs to get?

If your worried about the sensors you can remove them and probably just use some non-foulers(if you can plug the little hole with something) to cap them off. I personally would go through all the troubles but still everyone should know that there still is a minor risk of messing one up. I didn't have any problems tho. If you have any questions on how to do this man just ask, ill be glad to help.:)
 
thanks, I feel like this is Alcoholics Anonymous and you are my sponsor tonight.

Hey did you read about the rim I destroyed today? Cosmetically anyway.
 
StealthWyvern said:
yep you can pick it up at any autozone or othe parts store more then likely

Yep, its back by the additives and stuff. And it shouldn't more than $6 and some change:)
 
gbean said:
thanks, I feel like this is Alcoholics Anonymous and you are my sponsor tonight.

Hey did you read about the rim I destroyed today? Cosmetically anyway.

Nope:( Haven't even gotten to that PM yet, stealth is bothering me. lol
 
gbean said:
thanks, I feel like this is Alcoholics Anonymous and you are my sponsor tonight.

Hey did you read about the rim I destroyed today? Cosmetically anyway.

I've ran seafoam 4 times on my car so far and haven't removed the 02's out of it and my car has over 154k miles on it. So you know I have more crap that can be blown out the exhuast from the seafoam! Its good stuff to mang! lol
 
StealthWyvern said:
I've ran seafoam 4 times on my car so far and haven't removed the 02's out of it and my car has over 154k miles on it. So you know I have more crap that can be blown out the exhuast from the seafoam! Its good stuff to mang! lol

Why? Its like a once every 50k kinda thing man?! You shoulda only done it 3 times lol:p
 
jeg0024 said:
Why? Its like a once every 50k kinda thing man?! You shoulda only done it 3 times lol:p


yeah but i wanted to make sure it was clean... besides its cool to smoke out your neighborhood and kill all the mystiques! Plus its cheap to boot!
 
StealthWyvern said:
yeah but i wanted to make sure it was clean... besides its cool to smoke out your neighborhood and kill all the mystiques! Plus its cheap to boot!

Sure...:p
 
Another nice write up jeg, thanks again.
I did this recently, used the brake booster line that is pictured from jeg, also used a McDs straw to feed it, worked great except it sucked it up really quick I used half the bottle in the line and dumped the rest in gas tank. Had no problems with fouling plugs or anything. Runs great.
 
hotrippr said:
Another nice write up jeg, thanks again.
I did this recently, used the brake booster line that is pictured from jeg, also used a McDs straw to feed it, worked great except it sucked it up really quick I used half the bottle in the line and dumped the rest in gas tank. Had no problems with fouling plugs or anything. Runs great.


Thanks again:) lol.
 
I just seafoamed my 2002 P5 (115,000 miles) and it worked great! The idle is MUCH better and I even notice a little more pep when I accelerate! Great write-up!
 
tdeez said:
I just seafoamed my 2002 P5 (115,000 miles) and it worked great! The idle is MUCH better and I even notice a little more pep when I accelerate! Great write-up!

Thats good:) Glad I could help!


Thanks!
 
jeg0024 said:
Why? Its like a once every 50k kinda thing man?! You shoulda only done it 3 times lol:p

in the brake booster? i do mine like every 7k or so. is that bad? usually like every other oil change
 
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If i dump this in the gas, will the car smoke as long as i have that same tank of gas?

Also i think i read ont he back of mines "safe for 0xygen sensors" maybe i have the new stuff. :-)
 
I just did it through the brake booster(bastard really sucks) There were times when the line got stuck to the can. Im surprised i didnt get a CEL.

Still w8ing on answers for the gas tank. I dont have much gas so ill probly do it soon anyhow.
 
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