dangerz

I'd like to Seafoam my Vette but I'm not familiar enough to do it on my own. I've done it to my Camaro but that was obviously a different machine.

Has anyone in the DFW area done it and if so, would you mind helping me out? I'll pay for some beers and if we do it at my place (I'm located in Benbrook), I'll throw some burgers on the grill too.

I don't want to add it to the oil because I don't have a lift or anything to change the oil afterwards. I'll do that once I get ramps later on.

Roy

c6 batmobile

I added mine to the gas. No adverse affects. Seemed to help clean the injectors out.

RedWuken

Is this something available at a place in town? Or do you have to buy directly from them?

GlenRoseFireFighter

you can buy a can of seafoam at any auto parts place (AutoZone, O'Reilley's, etc.) Makes for a great fuel stabilizer too for those winter months. I use it in my Duramax right now, but I haven't in my vette since I only have 32,XXX miles currently.

GlenRoseFireFighter

http://www.seafoamsales.com/motor-treatment/index.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D11ZVYwj62w

techvette

the best thing to do is put some in a shallow dish and slowly suck it into the brake booster vacuum line. This will take it directly into the intake manifold.

dangerz

Any chance you can show me a picture of where that line is? I'm still learning everything. Sorry.

Silverbullet00

Before my header install the tuner ran some thru the engine. Jim said it took about 20 minutes for his shop to clear. My LS1 had about 40K on the clock at the time! If Jim Paschal says it is good stuff,,,,good enough for me!

David426

you can add seafoam liquid to the gas tank and it does the trick.. Remember that which ever method you choose (intake,gas tank or oil crankcase) your oil will turn to a nasty filthy black carbon saturated mess.. So do your seafoam treatment just before you plan on doing an oil change

RedWuken

I got a can today at O'reilley. Was going to just put it in the gas tank to avoid needing an oil change, so thanks for the heads up. Looks like I'll have to wait a couple weeks.

c6 batmobile

putting it into the gas wont turn your oil black. It will just clean your injectors. If you put it in your oil it will turn you oil black cause it will clean all the deposits out of the crank casing etc..

RedWuken

This makes logical sense.. Maybe I misread the previous post. So gas tank and air intake are cool to do without an oil change? And did anyone have a pic of that tube I'm supposed to put it in.. the "brake booster vacuum line"?

dangerz

I found this:

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c5-t...foam-help.html

I'm just going to use the brake booster line and not the front line.

RedWuken

ok I did it today. Had my dad rev to 3k as I poured it into the brake booster line. I didn't use a funnel, but you don't really need it since the line sucks all the liquid in. I only used 1/3 or possibly less of it, and when I tried to flood it at the end and stall it out it didn't work so I just had my dad turn the key off. That was probably where I went wrong, because an hour later it started right up and there was maybe 5 sec of a tiny bit of smoke. I had already poured the rest of the can into the gas tank so I'll have to buy another to try again. I think I'll wait until I do my oil change and use half in the air intake and half in the oil since my car is at 97k.

dangerz

Ok I got two bottles.. tomorrow I'll pick up oil/filter and Tuesday I'll do seafoam/oil.

DIYdreamcar

I seafoamed because I had an intermittent gas gauge from funky gas. Fixed the problem right up!

Now no more funky gas...


-Ed

dangerz

Ya I did it the other day.. car runs nice and smooth.

GlenRoseFireFighter

Which route did you go? Just the gas tank?

dangerz

The gas tank is the route for that, correct. I believe it's 1 bottle + 12 gallons of gas. I'd confirm that before doing it though.

Watchful

I got a couple cans of the spray one and sprayed them through the throttle body a couple of years ago. Worked pretty well. It didn't stop by itself, so I just turned it off. When I started it back up, I got clouds of smoke for at least 10 minutes. Surprised no-one called the fire brigade.

Mine's an '01 and gets through a quart every 800-1000 miles or so, so pretty bad for oily gunk up top. Other model years probably wouldn't be as bad.