Any difference between Seafoam.....

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heyttown

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Aerosol can/deep creep, and putting the regular sea foam in a spray bottle?..... Ran into a small mom/pop auto store in the boonies that sells the regular sea foam for just over $3.00 a bottle, here in town the same thing is costing almost $8.00 a bottle...I have a sticky spot in my throttle (around 5mph) that the motor will eventually stall,it did this before and after a carb rebuild...So Im currently running the seafoam through the gas tank, but im thinking about spraying it right into the carb.....<br /><br />Any thoughts or opinions?
 
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Re: Any difference between Seafoam.....

Putting Seafoam in the carb is fine, but Deep Creep is a little better since it foams up and sticks to everything on the way through the motor.
 
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Re: Any difference between Seafoam.....

Spraying the stuff into the carb reduces its effectiveness by more than half. If the desired result is to clean the carb, it MUST be put through the engine via the fuel supply. If you simply spray it into the carb, it goes down the throat and gets sucked in by the engine. It does nothing for your jets or passageways. If you put it in the fuel, it mixes with the fuel and cleans the needle and seat, the jets, the passageways in the carb and the venturi nozzles for both the idle circuit and the speed circuit. <br /><br /> If you just spray it, you're wasting the money. If you want to make the outside of the carb clean, by all means, spray it. It'll do almost nothing for the inside. <br /><br />UFM82
 
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Re: Any difference between Seafoam.....

Originally posted by UFM82:<br /> Spraying the stuff into the carb reduces its effectiveness by more than half. If the desired result is to clean the carb, it MUST be put through the engine via the fuel supply. If you simply spray it into the carb, it goes down the throat and gets sucked in by the engine. It does nothing for your jets or passageways. If you put it in the fuel, it mixes with the fuel and cleans the needle and seat, the jets, the passageways in the carb and the venturi nozzles for both the idle circuit and the speed circuit. <br /><br /> If you just spray it, you're wasting the money. If you want to make the outside of the carb clean, by all means, spray it. It'll do almost nothing for the inside. <br /><br />UFM82
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No, try again. The point is not to clean the carb. Seafoam is not carb cleaner. It is to clean the engine. Anything highly diluted in the gas will have very, very little effect at cleaning anything. Spraying it directly into the carb will have a very strong effect at removing everything but metal inside the engine.
 
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Re: Any difference between Seafoam.....

I saw SEAFOAM and came 'a runnin!
 
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