1st time seafoam user

[chris greene]

used seafoam for the first time today. seemed to be going ok at first. engine tried to stall but i kept it going. after about 1/4 a can, it started to smoke from under the engine :rolleyes: (guess i spilled some), and a knock :mad: . i stop then and shut her down. waited about 10 min, then restarted her. let her run for about 10-15 min, didnt see alot of smoke, just a lite steady smoke. does this sound like i did anything wrong?

[98Camaro3.8]

The amount of smoke depends on how dirty the engine was. Some people's cars smoke much worse when they use Seafoam because the engines have more buildup inside.

[ABH]

Mine smoked the neighborhood the first time I used it. The second time very little.

[ka50]

When I seafoamed my friend's saturn with 130k miles on it, it smoked up the whole neighborhood and cops pulled up to us thinking we were smoking tires... took a whole lot of explanation. It was fun though [img]smile.gif[/img]

[hockeyman]

Fire Dept was called on me. I did it around midnight in my garage, and it looked like a heavy fog was on my whole block.

[speedy-v6-camaro]

You will get more smoke when you drive it.

[memphis_raines]

definitely. if you have a neighbor you don't like, be sure to go visit them, and park as close to the house as you can hehe

[FunkZ]

I've heard several people mention using Seafoam, but I never quite understood what it was. I did search through the forums here, but didn't find any more revealing references to it than this post.

Is this the product everyone is talking about?

That looks like a fuel treatment, but I was under the impression this stuff was used to clean out the intake manifold?

[HBHRacing]

this site could help some http://members.nuvox.net/~on.roz/cars/z28/seafoam.html

[FunkZ]

Indeed! Thanks for the reply.

[93camaro_zzz]

I used the stuff. And mine never stalled or smoked. Then when I did my head gaskets recenetly, I notced there is not too much of persay buildup inside the intakes, but there was alot of buildup of oil etc on the walls of the upper and lower intake passages. So it might have helped some, cause I guess it could have been worse. But it might just be one of those products that is overrated. I dunno.

[CamaroRob97]

It just burns up the carbon buildup. Seafoam is not the only thing you can use. Automatic Transmission fuild works well also.

[black98V6]

Originally posted by CamaroRob97:
It just burns up the carbon buildup. Seafoam is not the only thing you can use. Automatic Transmission fuild works well also.

ATF the old school way.. lol

[nikon]

Originally posted by black98V6:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by CamaroRob97:
It just burns up the carbon buildup. Seafoam is not the only thing you can use. Automatic Transmission fuild works well also.

ATF the old school way.. lol </font>[/QUOTE]ya but it works ;) ....little more expensive though, and more work, unless you got a rack to work on...ATF is just too foamy for me....way too many detergents

[Die Ford V8]

yeah i like what an old mechanic friend told me,
"rev her up and just dump the whole quart down the carb till she dies. if she dont die get in and drive like hell"