Sea Foam

Northern Tool and Equipment


$4 a 16oz or 12oz can.. just got me some

 

Time to smoke out your neighbor hood!

 

thinking about it today or at teh Meineke get together next saturday.. almsot bought a bunch for everyone ha ha ha

 

close your windows
inside will smell for a while if u dont =D

 

beauty is I will do it in my shop with an exhaust hose hanging through the bay door.. no smoke inside store...

 

It will manage to blow smoke out from the engine bay too

 

times eleventy...ANY leak, no matter how small...will smoke

 

Sea Foam? Smoke?

What's that stuff do?

 

cleans and expholiates(sp?)

 

kinda like the all-in-one cleaner for your engine
it can be poured into your crankcase, your vacuum hoses and also your gas tank
if you see a can at the stores, pick it up and read it

 

lol......I'm bringing some to the party next saturday!

 

Someone please explain to me how to do this other then putting it in your tank of gas? Like in a detailed description of where this vacuum line is, cause I have no idea!

 

u can use it through the line off the bpv or your brake booster
make sure to have the rpm's kinda up, dont want your car to stall
i usually have someone at the wheel keeping it around 3000rpm while i let it suck up the blue juice

 

If doing this will tell you where in your engine bay air is escaping, I'd definately do it!

 

It will show you where any and all exhuast leaks are :cough: fong :cough: lol.

it is some good stuff. you can run it in the gas tank, the oil, and the intake manifold. i feed it in through the brake booster. you dont need anyone to keep the revs up. just cover the hose once you pull it off. normally suck in 1/3 a can and turn it off right after let it sit for 15-20min and fire it up! smoke everywhere! i remember following petes STi when he did it, Tbone got this on video we couldnt see him at all!

good fun, but i think the uber cleanliness caused my motor to burn oil. hmm.. maybe there is such a thing as too clean.

 

uuumm especially if that grime is holding it together ha hah a

 

I guess i didnt make myself clear enough lol. I dont know what BPV or a Brake booster is, I know what a BOV is, but not a BPV. Not only do i not know what it is, i dont know where it is, how to get to it, how to disconnect it, how to get seafoam into and out of it or how to reconnect it. These kind of directions would be great, maybe even a picture. I would really appreciate it, because it sounds like this is a good addition to just running it through your gas tank.:hsugh:

 

BPV is a bypass valve which = BOV i believe.

i prefer to use the brake booster, since the ose is so much bigger, and it can suck in so much more at once! hehe. if you look in the engine bay there is a big black cylinder on the firewall drivers side. it has the brake resivior right infront of it. this is the booster. there is a vaccum line that runs to this directly from the intake manifold. there is a squeeze clip in the liine, remove it on the booster side, stick it in the can of sea foam (while car is running) wait a bit and turn car off, re attach line. wait 15min. start car, dotn breathe.

 

Im excited to smoke out the neighbors lol, How much seafoam do i let it suck up?

 

Seafoam party @ Nathan's shop, I'm going to get pics of the fire department arriving! lmao

 

I wanted to say thanks to nathan for the tip on the sale, this is like half price! i picked up 4 cans, thanks man!

 

I'm totally looking forward to this Seafoam party. It sounds ghey if you don't know what Seafoam is... maybe I'll bring in some glamour glasses for everyone to wear. LoL.

 

i do not have the video. tbone had the camera. i am not sure if it was his or petes. occasionally there is a pic of petes STi on the front page of it being saefoamed.

 

LOL!

we should all grab a can, pour it at the same time and create a gigantic smoke cloud LOL!

j/k

 

ahem...

 

meaning he already owns more than one pair... ha ha

 

I poured about 1/3 can slowly into my BOV vacuum line while the car idled (badly). It idles ****ty because of the vacuum leak, not because of the SeaFoam. If if sounds like its about to die, you can usually stop pouring and put your thumb over the end of the hose.

If you have a factory boost gauge, there will be a T in the vacuum line right by the BOV. The line to the gauge goes toward the dash, the line to the engine goes toward the throttle body. Pour the Seafoam into the latter.

 

Hot engine bay!

 

Question. Where do i let it suck in on a N/A engine?

 

Just pour it on top N/A engines just plain suck actually I don't have your answer sorry.

 

is there a vacume line close to the tb?

 

Hardy harr harr

tb? And I have no idea. Thats why I was hoping somebody would have a nice little picture with an arrow. I need a seafoam for dummies book.

 

tb=throttle body

 

I should have known. How do I identify a vaccum hose from the other hoses?

here is a bay shot.

 

Does this mean you found and fixed your vacuum leak?

 

brake booster line, right to the right of the blue line coming out of your intake near your throttle body.

 

I think this is right. Do i unplug it from spot 1 or spot 2?

 

Something about seafoam seems wrong to me.

I don't trust it.

 

Disconnect end #2, then you can just stick that loose end of the hose into the can of Sea Foam.

If you disconnected end #1... then what? You can't really pour it out of the can into a horizontally-oriented nipple... (the vacuum is being produced in the manifold (#1) not the brake cylinder (#2))

CAVEAT: I haven't done it that way myself, and it kinda looks to me like all the Sea Foam would end up in cylinder #4 if you used the brake booster line. (anyone confirm/deny?) If it were MY car, I'd try to dump it straight into the intake (somewhere AFTER the air cleaner, obviously) to make sure it got evenly distributed to all four cylinders. That's a lot more straightforward with my ol' Chevy, though...

 

I'm the same way about Red Bull.

 

haha your funny. but what the heck i still drink it

 

Seafoam isn't for drinking.

 

So do you fart GIGANTIC CLOUDS OF SMOKE?!?