Want to make your own SeaFoam?

[SuperNova]

Re: Want to make your own SeaFoam?

My bad.

 

[Texasmark]

Re: Want to make your own SeaFoam?

I have been running Marvel Mystery Oil in everything for many years and also tranny fluid in my diesels, but not until I started adding SF to my fuel did I really see improvements and I mean serious improvements on the first tankfull.

On my '64 Massey Ferguson (35 hp) farm tractor with a 3 cyl Perkins diesel for example, I went from a "need an overhaul bad" to a fine running, low (diesel fuel) smoking machine in a heartbeat. My '62 JD 4010 (80 hp) diesel tractor starts faster than you can get your fingers off the key.

I had discarded 3 weedeaters, a chain saw, several 4 cycle lawnmowers, and a had a poorly idling 3 cyl outboard, all easily rejuvenated with the first application of the stuff. Once I found out how good it was I just started digging out the old, what I thought to be junk, and started rejuvenating it. It was fun.

So let's see, on the MF overhaul (that I now don't need) $2000, Sea Foam $6 per can....that's 333 cans of Foam I can buy and come out even (actually better than even because I don't have to do any overhaul work or worry) without any hassle, looking for stuff, driving all over, mixing and all on this one tractor alone.

The other thing is I know it's tested and works. I don't like using my high dollar (to me) equipment as a guiney pig......someone else has already done that at essentially no expense to me.

I'll stay with a proven performer. Sea Foam/Deep Creep for me.

Mark

 

[burroak]

Re: Want to make your own SeaFoam?

Water is the best thing I've ever found for cleaning carbon.

Remember you basic earth science classes. Carbon is the universal building block and h2o is the universal solvent.

 

[bandit86]

Re: Want to make your own SeaFoam?

pardon my ignorance, what is the difference between seafoam and deepcreep?

 

[gss036]

Re: Want to make your own SeaFoam?

Same product, different ways to use. One is pourable, the other is aresol spray can. Kind of to pour into the spark plug hole.

 

[xxxflhrci]

Re: Want to make your own SeaFoam?

Now, what I would really like to know is why SeaFoam actually works? Or does it work. If you soak a carboned valve in it for a week it doesn`t soften a thing.

Yep, I soaked a couple of used pistons in SeaFoam for severa days. It did nothing to remove the carbon.

For top end carbon removal, I just use water:

http://s34.photobucket.com/albums/d141/xxxflhrci/?action=view&current=water.flv

I have done the water thing right before tearing down an engine and have found the pistons, valves, seats, and head domes to look steam cleaned.

 

[rwise]

Re: Want to make your own SeaFoam?

Soak those same parts in water, the carbon will not loosen either

I have used water, and seafoam,,,

 

[mainexile]

Re: Want to make your own SeaFoam?

I have been running Marvel Mystery Oil in everything for many years and also tranny fluid in my diesels, but not until I started adding SF to my fuel did I really see improvements and I mean serious improvements on the first tankfull.

Mark

TM, you jarred loose an old memory (circa 1965) when some of us know-it-all teenagers took my 55 chevy 265 V8 to a service station where one of my classmates worked. We opened a can of Marvel Mystery Oil and poured it down the carb while pushing 3500 rpms. That chevy laid down a smoke screen around the station that would make a navy destroyer proud. LOL

 

[xxxflhrci]

Re: Want to make your own SeaFoam?

Soak those same parts in water, the carbon will not loosen either

Exactly. The steam action is what does the cleaning, not the solvent. Personally, I find most "miracles in a can" lacking when it comes up to living up the propaganda that is printed on the label, SeaFoam included.

 

[bhammer]

Re: Want to make your own SeaFoam?

now theres a mental picture, someone standing over there outboard, pants down, aaaa decarbing there engine LOL d
I have used water for years with no ill effects.

Just keep it out of all the belts and other moving parts. Better hope there aint a leaky plug wire either.

 

[rwise]

Re: Want to make your own SeaFoam?

the could be a shocking experience!

 

[dimock44]

Re: Want to make your own SeaFoam?

Seafoam also makes a bug killer. Maybe I could use it to get a few "bugs" out of my engines.

 

[LORDY611]

Re: Want to make your own SeaFoam?

when using water mist, will there be the normal Seafoam-type cloud of smoke? That always made me uneasy. I like to breathe clean air.

 

[xxxflhrci]

Re: Want to make your own SeaFoam?

when using water mist, will there be the normal Seafoam-type cloud of smoke? That always made me uneasy. I like to breathe clean air.

No, there will only be steam. The smoke from the Seafoam is just the oil in it burning. That smoke show is part of the magic trick that generally has guys think it is working wonders inside of their engine.

 

[LORDY611]

Re: Want to make your own SeaFoam?

So to totally demystify SeaFoam, does it really have any fuel-stabilizing properties? I've been reading that Sta-bil is not all it's cracked up to be and may actually be of no help keeping fuel fresh and not gummy.

 

[xxxflhrci]

Re: Want to make your own SeaFoam?

So to totally demystify SeaFoam, does it really have any fuel-stabilizing properties? I've been reading that Sta-bil is not all it's cracked up to be and may actually be of no help keeping fuel fresh and not gummy.

I'd like to know that answer as well. With either product, it is tough to swallow that a couple of ounces per gallon will keep fuel from going bad any quicker than plan gasoline. With that said, I use Sta-bil at the end of each season out of fear of what might happen from not using it.

 

[LORDY611]

Re: Want to make your own SeaFoam?

I'd like to know that answer as well. With either product, it is tough to swallow that a couple of ounces per gallon will keep fuel from going bad any quicker than plan gasoline. With that said, I use Sta-bil at the end of each season out of fear of what might happen from not using it.

Google turned up this article about a product like Sta-bil called PRI. In a nutshell, untreated gas starts out suceptible to chemical changes right out of the pump and goes down hill from there. Clumps of carbon and other goodies begin forming. Those clumps dont burn completely and leave deposits. With an fuel stabilizer the clumping is postponed or even eliminated. PRI seems to think their product is much better than Sta-bil.
Here is the link. http://www.priproducts.com/howitworks.htm