Seafoam
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If you really insist on doing it, these are the basic steps:
1. Warm up car to operating temperature; shut off
2. Pop hood
3. Disconnect brake booster hose (see previous page diagram if unsure)
4. Start car-- it will have a high idle
5. Spray or slowly pour Seafoam product into the brake booster line, it should appear as if the car is dying; keep pouring-- it helps if someone can be in the car giving the vehicle a little bit of gas to keep it alive for a time
6. Turn off car (or if it died, remove key), and fill the booster line with some Seafoam, and let it drain into the cylinder
7. Reconnect brake booster line; wait ten minutes for Seafoam to soak in and take effect
8. (Attempt to) start car-- it may take more than one try
9. Rev car up a bit, you'll see large plumes of white smoke emerging from the exhaust-- drive the car around for a bit until the smoke stops; higher RPM may feel sluggish for now
10. After smoke is completely gone, change oil and clean spark plugs, as the plugs are now fouled
It is going to mess with valve seals. In a bad way. Go ahead and ask anyone who does headwork on Honda aluminum heads if they use stuff like this. (protip: they don't)
Just look at what your seals are made of, and how Seafoam works. It's not very difficult to see what exactly happens. I bet you that you'll see oil consumption problems down the road if you continue to use Seafoam.
Modern gas has enough detergents to keep the really bad crap out of the motor.
Go ahead and look at the old posts on the Superhonda forums. There was a huge rash of oil consumption threads immediately following some huge "Seafoam is so great!" period. Learn from their mistakes and don't use this stuff.
1. Warm up car to operating temperature; shut off
2. Pop hood
3. Disconnect brake booster hose (see previous page diagram if unsure)
4. Start car-- it will have a high idle
5. Spray or slowly pour Seafoam product into the brake booster line, it should appear as if the car is dying; keep pouring-- it helps if someone can be in the car giving the vehicle a little bit of gas to keep it alive for a time
6. Turn off car (or if it died, remove key), and fill the booster line with some Seafoam, and let it drain into the cylinder
7. Reconnect brake booster line; wait ten minutes for Seafoam to soak in and take effect
8. (Attempt to) start car-- it may take more than one try
9. Rev car up a bit, you'll see large plumes of white smoke emerging from the exhaust-- drive the car around for a bit until the smoke stops; higher RPM may feel sluggish for now
10. After smoke is completely gone, change oil and clean spark plugs, as the plugs are now fouled
It is going to mess with valve seals. In a bad way. Go ahead and ask anyone who does headwork on Honda aluminum heads if they use stuff like this. (protip: they don't)
Just look at what your seals are made of, and how Seafoam works. It's not very difficult to see what exactly happens. I bet you that you'll see oil consumption problems down the road if you continue to use Seafoam.
Modern gas has enough detergents to keep the really bad crap out of the motor.
Go ahead and look at the old posts on the Superhonda forums. There was a huge rash of oil consumption threads immediately following some huge "Seafoam is so great!" period. Learn from their mistakes and don't use this stuff.
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Originally Posted by dparm,Feb 4 2009, 12:15 PM
If you really insist on doing it, these are the basic steps:
1. Warm up car to operating temperature; shut off
2. Pop hood
3. Disconnect brake booster hose (see previous page diagram if unsure)
4. Start car-- it will have a high idle
5. Spray or slowly pour Seafoam product into the brake booster line, it should appear as if the car is dying; keep pouring-- it helps if someone can be in the car giving the vehicle a little bit of gas to keep it alive for a time
6. Turn off car (or if it died, remove key), and fill the booster line with some Seafoam, and let it drain into the cylinder
7. Reconnect brake booster line; wait ten minutes for Seafoam to soak in and take effect
8. (Attempt to) start car-- it may take more than one try
9. Rev car up a bit, you'll see large plumes of white smoke emerging from the exhaust-- drive the car around for a bit until the smoke stops; higher RPM may feel sluggish for now
10. After smoke is completely gone, change oil and clean spark plugs, as the plugs are now fouled
It is going to mess with valve seals. In a bad way. Go ahead and ask anyone who does headwork on Honda aluminum heads if they use stuff like this. (protip: they don't)
Just look at what your seals are made of, and how Seafoam works. It's not very difficult to see what exactly happens. I bet you that you'll see oil consumption problems down the road if you continue to use Seafoam.
Modern gas has enough detergents to keep the really bad crap out of the motor.
Go ahead and look at the old posts on the Superhonda forums. There was a huge rash of oil consumption threads immediately following some huge "Seafoam is so great!" period. Learn from their mistakes and don't use this stuff.
1. Warm up car to operating temperature; shut off
2. Pop hood
3. Disconnect brake booster hose (see previous page diagram if unsure)
4. Start car-- it will have a high idle
5. Spray or slowly pour Seafoam product into the brake booster line, it should appear as if the car is dying; keep pouring-- it helps if someone can be in the car giving the vehicle a little bit of gas to keep it alive for a time
6. Turn off car (or if it died, remove key), and fill the booster line with some Seafoam, and let it drain into the cylinder
7. Reconnect brake booster line; wait ten minutes for Seafoam to soak in and take effect
8. (Attempt to) start car-- it may take more than one try
9. Rev car up a bit, you'll see large plumes of white smoke emerging from the exhaust-- drive the car around for a bit until the smoke stops; higher RPM may feel sluggish for now
10. After smoke is completely gone, change oil and clean spark plugs, as the plugs are now fouled
It is going to mess with valve seals. In a bad way. Go ahead and ask anyone who does headwork on Honda aluminum heads if they use stuff like this. (protip: they don't)
Just look at what your seals are made of, and how Seafoam works. It's not very difficult to see what exactly happens. I bet you that you'll see oil consumption problems down the road if you continue to use Seafoam.
Modern gas has enough detergents to keep the really bad crap out of the motor.
Go ahead and look at the old posts on the Superhonda forums. There was a huge rash of oil consumption threads immediately following some huge "Seafoam is so great!" period. Learn from their mistakes and don't use this stuff.
On the Subaru, it seems to be ok. Many have done it on my Outback forums with good results. Maybe those engines can take it?... no idea.
Andre
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Originally Posted by Rubn1out4GudLuk,Feb 4 2009, 12:01 PM
Sorry for the hijack...But I'm just curious;
You still haven't updated us on what the problem was with your VSA deactivating from the other thread, Andre? I'm curious to know what it was?
You still haven't updated us on what the problem was with your VSA deactivating from the other thread, Andre? I'm curious to know what it was?
The light just ended up going away the next time I went to start the car. No idea what it was really. If it comes back on, I'll do some further investigation.
Andre
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Originally Posted by 8kGoodENuff,Feb 4 2009, 08:32 AM
It's all good.
The light just ended up going away the next time I went to start the car. No idea what it was really. If it comes back on, I'll do some further investigation.
Andre
The light just ended up going away the next time I went to start the car. No idea what it was really. If it comes back on, I'll do some further investigation.
Andre
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