SeaFoam: How-To?

[Manarius]

I'm going to go out tonight and pick me up one or two cans of seafoam. Now, I was searching and read that I should feed it through one of the vacuum tubes into the intake. Could someone tell me where that is? Or, point it out in a picture? I have plenty of pictures of the engine of my car.

http://photobucket.com/albums/a339/Planarian98/Car/

I'm also going to run some through my gas and I'll run some with my oil at next oil change.

[Legacy777]

I ran it through my PCV valve, that way it got to a "centralized" point in the intake manifold.

I think I just picked up a generic hose and slowly poured it down the hose.

[IronMonkeyL255]

I just put it in the small hose directly on top of the throttle body . Bought a generic vacuum hose and let it suck it out of a cup.......

[Legacy777]

I just put it in the small hose directly on top of the throttle body . Bought a generic vacuum hose and let it suck it out of a cup.......

The only reason I don't recommend this is because of the coating on the internal part of the throttle body. There is a black coating that helps against carbon build up, and does provide some amount of sealing at the throttle body.....and seafoam might deteriorate it.

[IronMonkeyL255]

Hmm....

I hadn't heard that.

[Manarius]

I ran it through my PCV valve, that way it got to a "centralized" point in the intake manifold.

I think I just picked up a generic hose and slowly poured it down the hose.

You would also recommend doing it at night, yes?

[Legacy777]

It don't matter. If you think your neighbors aren't going to like a cloud of smoke, then yes.

[IronMonkeyL255]

My neighbors were just kinda like 'there he goes again '

[Manarius]

Well, I ran it through the PCV valve...At first I tried just doing it from idle...it stopped the engine! So, I borrowed a friend and I got him to hold it at about 2k while I poored the stuff down in. It didn't smoke nearly as much as I thought it would, it also didn't make black smoke..just white. I'm assuming then that I didn't have much carbon buildup?

BTW, that stuff smells a lot like alcohol.

[LaureltheQueen]

Help the girl here, where's the PCV valve located on the cars. :rolleyes: I know. It's probably time to change it if I don't know where it is.

[Manarius]

Help the girl here, where's the PCV valve located on the cars. :rolleyes: I know. It's probably time to change it if I don't know where it is.

Right behing the coil pack, on the left (if you're facing the engine from the front), there's a tube that runs from the manifold down to the crankcase. It's plastic and doesn't move easily. When you pull off that tube, that black thing that sticks out is the valve.

I don't have a good picture of my engine with the cover off, but I can point out the tube in this pic:
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a339/ ... 51edit.jpg

If you smell the valve, it should smell like oil.