Sea Foam ?

[Spooled-up]

Is Sea Foam available locally or do you have to order it? I've never seen it anywhere, but I haven't looked for it specifically either.

 

[JasonCzerak]

Is Sea Foam available locally or do you have to order it? I've never seen it anywhere, but I haven't looked for it specifically either.

found it for $5/can at bumber to bumber. I'm sure it's at any autopart store...

 

[MRosinski]

Well about $50 worth of sea foam later and the knock is finally gone. Truck sounds like it did when it was new. From now on gonna run PSdiesel kleen between fillups and do the fuel filter canister thing every 9K miles when the fuel filter gets replaced.

 

[CraigJones]

Fyi

I took my truck to the dealership last week for the common injector nock at about 72 mph at light throttle. The diesel tech at the this dealership is excellent he has about 15 yrs experience with cummins. He called cummins not startech and cummins has heard of this problem before they believe it is carbon build up on the injectors. I will be going to the dealership on the Nov. 10th they have a BG rep. and a BG tech coming to perform a complete fuel system clean with a kit they have designed for the high pressure rail fuel system. Hopefully this will work. Cummins also recommends using a non-alcohol injector cleaner. I have about 85,000 miles on my truck and I don't work it at all. I think I'm going to have to work at little after I get this fixed. It seems the people who beat this crap out of there trucks don't have that many problems. I will let you know how it goes.

 

[JasonCzerak]

I took my truck to the dealership last week for the common injector nock at about 72 mph at light throttle. The diesel tech at the this dealership is excellent he has about 15 yrs experience with cummins. He called cummins not startech and cummins has heard of this problem before they believe it is carbon build up on the injectors. I will be going to the dealership on the Nov. 10th they have a BG rep. and a BG tech coming to perform a complete fuel system clean with a kit they have designed for the high pressure rail fuel system. Hopefully this will work. Cummins also recommends using a non-alcohol injector cleaner. I have about 85,000 miles on my truck and I don't work it at all. I think I'm going to have to work at little after I get this fixed. It seems the people who beat this crap out of there trucks don't have that many problems. I will let you know how it goes.

Umm, that's the only way to drive

 

[Idaho Native]

I just used Sea Foam in my motorcycle that had been acting up with dirty carbs. I swear by it now... cost me about $7 from NAPA for a bottle that treats 21 gallons. Haven't used it in a diesel, so I couldn't give you any feedback on how it might work there, but from the sounds of the other posts, it did the same for them as it did for my gasser cycle.



Loren

 

[CKimball]

my dually had the dreaded "just above idle knock" and three cans of Sea Foam later (two in the tank and one in the filter whilst changin) like new Oo. ... . very quiet and smooth..... Napa 6. 45 a can..... lookin to buy in bulk (case) and add a can every tank...

cameron

 

[Moose]

Just went at picked up some sea foam at the NAPA near my house... Got 3 cans at $6. 50 a can... 2 went in the tank and the thrird got emptied into my fuel/water seperator on my FASS... With in about 1/2 a mile after I left the NAPA I could already hear a difference... Truck felt better on take off and reved smoother while accelerating... By the time I got home which is about 3 miles from NAPA the knock I have had for the last 10k miles was pretty much all but gone!. . Have to see how things go for the rest of this tank but so far I am impressed...



Moose

 

[jwduke]

Does sea foam contain an abrasive?



-Ryan

NO!



I've used it in a gasoline engine, and it cured its ailments. It is usually under $5, and it does work, Ryan.

 

[FCecelin]

I've used it in the lawn mower and all the 2 cycle stuff. . Also works well as a fuel stabilizer

 

[FATCAT]

Anyone here have a VW TDI diesel car and use the Seafoam in it? It sounds like a good way to clean them little buggers.

How about the VW intake manifolds? These things seem to be a bit of a problem with the TDI's. How could Seafoam be used to clean these ... or is there no way to get it into the intake?

 

[Okey0]

I've used this every tank on my old mercury outboard, and it works great keeping the fuel system clean. i'd have never thought to use it in a diesel. guess i should read the label.

 

[CKimball]

Anyone here have a VW TDI diesel car and use the Seafoam in it? It sounds like a good way to clean them little buggers.

How about the VW intake manifolds? These things seem to be a bit of a problem with the TDI's. How could Seafoam be used to clean these ... or is there no way to get it into the intake?

I do and it works... . got rid of the hard accel smoke that I usualy get... as far as the intake. . we are stuck in removing them to ensure a proper cleaning... you can thank the treehuggers for that little maint item!

cameron

 

[swhalen]

Fatkat:

i agree with ckimball regarding the intake. not too bad to take off and clean, just a little tight getting the fingers and tools in there to remove some of the capscrews. visit the tdiclub.com forum and you can read for days about the "fixes" to this problem. i concluded that the best/easiest thing is to just bite the bullet and remove the intake. there are also discussions on seafoam and the bg intake cleaning system. most folks seem to use diesel purge to clean injectors. i do it once a year "just 'cause", but am anal about maintenance and the things are probably whistle clean anyway. regards, steve whalen