Seafoam won't water down the oil will it?

[TheLoyale]

Alright i finaly bought some Seafoam and i wanted to know if it will thin out the oil and couse less protection.. I'm only putting in a little bit..

 

And is it really a good idea to pull the air intake off the TB and pore some in like it says?

 

And should i really put some in the gas?

 

Just a few questions before i do it.

 

Thank's for any advice,

Tom

[subaruguru]

first off what are you trying to accomplish??

 

Rob.

[TheLoyale]

Well i have rough idel and some light ticking with the lifters. So i wanted to see what would hapen with this stuff.

 

Connie says it does wonders....

[BlueTrain]

your oil pump is probably sucking air. again, the search function here will give you many posts detailing how others have used Seafoam. personally, i don't like to add anything to my oil.

[TheLoyale]

Yeah i got to get that oil pump stuff done... I have eveything but dad never wants to do it.. So that is the main couse of it..

 

Now the lifters always have a little noise right? Even when the car was new?

[subaruguru]

nope they arnt sposed to make noise.

[TheLoyale]

Is that bad? Will they wear out? It's just a little very light tick..

 

I'll have to get that done really soon!!!!!

[BlueTrain]

a ticking soob is definitely not a rarity

[TheLoyale]

It's good i' not alone, I know Bucky used to tick from what Connie say's..

[82glsw]

It's good i' not alone, I know Bucky used to tick from what Connie Say's..

 

If the tick is not to bad u can add a little marvel mystery oil to your oil and it should quiet things up

[TheSubaruJunkie]

Ok here is the deal... it will thin out your oil. It is not bad, but for a prolonged amount of time it isnt good. Run it for a day or a week, then do an oil change. Thats what I use it for.

 

Seafoam is a detergent. It cleans... so its good for cleaning carbon diposits from within your engine. It will also thin the oil and may help with hydraulic lifters.

 

Yes Pour it right into the throttlebody. You car wont like running on it, but it will clean the crap out of your carburator (if you have one) and your valves, piston, etc...

 

And its never a bad idea in the gas. Wont harm anything.

 

I preffer Marvels Mystery Oil over Seafoam. They are pretty much the same thing, however MMO is more of an oil.

 

-Brian

[TheLoyale]

Yeah it does. But i put that in my Lown mower and it made it blow oil as long as that stuff was in there. So no more of that...

[TheLoyale]

Yeah MMO is more oily then Seafoam.

 

I will add it to the gas then. It's SPFI by the way..

[TheSubaruJunkie]

In the gas will help it clean your injector.

[TheLoyale]

Yeah there might be some dirt in there..

[daeron]

the single best application of sea foam is to detach the vacuum line that feeds the brake booster, on the booster end. Pour 6 ounces of sea foam into a jar or something that you can put the vacuum line down into. Put your thumb over the end of the tube. Have a friend start the engine, remove your finger from the tube, (warn your friend to be ready to give it a little gas so it doesnt stall.) Use the vacuum line to suck up the sea foam; it won't take long. Immediately shut the engine off. (no harm done if you burn some, it just works through soaking.)

 

Let the engine sit for five or ten minutes, and then go for a VERY spirited drive, and watch all the carbon and soot and other combustion byproducts and contaminants that had infiltrated your combustion chambers, and pretty well anywhere the sees manifold vacuum, BURN AWAY in a foul cloud of smoke.

 

I do this once every six months or so, if possible. The in fuel, and oil treatments are less frequent in my book.

[Davalos]

... then go for a VERY spirited drive, and watch all the carbon and soot and other combustion byproducts and contaminants that had infiltrated your combustion chambers, and pretty well anywhere the sees manifold vacuum, BURN AWAY in a foul cloud of smoke.

 

I do this once every six months or so, if possible. The in fuel, and oil treatments are less frequent in my book.

 

Do you do it in a different neighborhood everytime? I would feel guilty doing it every 6 months ... when I did it, I had 2 neighbors come outside and look at me, shaking their heads, then going back in & slamming their windows shut, hehe.

[TomRhere]

Do you do it in a different neighborhood everytime? I would feel guilty doing it every 6 months ... when I did it, I had 2 neighbors come outside and look at me, shaking their heads, then going back in & slamming their windows shut, hehe.

 

Does tend to keep the skeeters away for a bit, don't it?

[mikeshoup]

the single best application of sea foam is to detach the vacuum line that feeds the brake booster, on the booster end.

I don't use the brake booster hose. It will only feed seafoam to the left cylinder bank. You need to use a more central vacuum line in the intake manifold.

[Virrdog]

Alright i finaly bought some Seafoam and i wanted to know

Dude, I know you're young. But you have waaay too many posts to do stuff like this. Look up Sea Foam in just Old Generation and you should find enough posts to be reading for a week. Then you can come back with new original questions... if there are any left.

[backwoodsboy]

I know Bucky used to tick from what Connie say's..

 

 

They say a "ticking" sound coming from a subaru engine indicates that it is RUNNING

 

Bucky ticks SOMETIMES.

 

From my experience, at idle (even INCREASED idle at startup) the oil pump doesnt produce quite enough pressure to pump up the lifters.... hence the ticking.

 

I had run Bucky for about 10 minutes last night....... tick tick tick. Then I hit the gas and sent the tach to about 2 1/2 grand (and the ticking stops)

 

Marvel Mystery that bad boy!

[TheLoyale]

I don't use the brake booster hose. It will only feed seafoam to the left cylinder bank. You need to use a more central vacuum line in the intake manifold.

 

So what? Str8t down the TB opening?

 

Alright i'll give that a try.. Thank's everyone

 

PS: I know i should try the search sometime.. Sorry i'm just a bad boy.

[mikeshoup]

So what? Str8t down the TB opening?

That works, though sometimes it can be hard to keep the vehicle running since pulling that off creates a large vacuum leak.

 

What I did on my SPFI is unhook the hose that goes into the IAC solenoid from the intake tube. Plugged the hole in the tube with my thumb, and then dumped the seafoam down the hose that runs into the IAC. That will distribute the seafoam fairly evenly. It might not work at hot idle since the IAC would close up, but it did work very well at a cold idle.

[TheLoyale]

Yeah ok! Hey BTW which hose is for the IAC?? The one in front of the air intake to the TB?

 

I don't think i'm going to add it to the oil. Because i put some in my Lown mower and it blows some blue smoke/oil now?? Is that normal?

[joostvdw]

I don't know how "watery" seafoam is, or how fast it evaporates, but if it's anything like water, don't dump it all too quickly into the TB as you may risk hydrolock, use a vacuum hose instead.