Remove the 3/4" rubber hose off of your Brake Master Cylinder, its the only one on there. There may or may not be a small clamp on it. Start the engine (before you remove the hose or it wont start), then pour seafoam in until half the can is gone, once you reach that point, pour it in until it stalls.

Then, pour the rest in about 1/4-1/2 tank of Fuel. I also wait until I am about to do an oil change and dump a can in the oil too.

Wait 5, maybe 10 minutes, start the engine back up, rev the piss out of it and watch her smoke. My neighbors down the street had NO idea what was going on, and I got the fire department called on me once.

 

I want to run the sea foam soon as well. Let me know how it goes

 

well guys it went well and blew a lot of smoke. seems to have more throttle response now. but the truck blew a bit of blew smoke, think its anything to be worried sbout? i checked the oil level and it was good, just wondering.

 

It's pretty common and normal to have a little of residual smoking after you sea foam your truck. Take it out on the highway and really blow it out. I also recommend getting some sea foam deep creep and take off your air intake and air box to get to the trottle body and clean the intake out. Just spray the deep creep in there and wipe clean with paper towels. Trust me. Well worth it!!!!!:smileup:

 

consider it done thanks!

 

Well I just did the treatment on my 2009... not as much smoke as I was kind of hoping. I've been having rough idling issues lately so I was hoping this would be the ticket. I'm not saying it wasn't though because she is definitely running a lot better. I guess that could be in my head though, heh. I almost freaked out too because after the smoke was done she was idling REALLY rough, almost stalling out! But all is well. Next is a PCV change and spark plugs.

 

same thing with mine. As well as the blue smoke. Yeah clean up that intake, and have you taken a look at your air intake lately?

 

Sea foam

My recent sea foam try was a nice smoke show flow we'd by better throttle response @ 130k and still running strong. I would love about 30 more hp though. My budget is not well enough to do much for that.

 

take the pcv off and get one of the big filters from advance, then you dont have to worry about the throttle body and intake gumming up for a lot longer as it wont be sucking oil in and it will not hurt anything venting this way

 

take the pcv off and get one of the big filters from advance, then you dont have to worry about the throttle body and intake gumming up for a lot longer as it wont be sucking oil in and it will not hurt anything venting this way

Don't do this! Those little filters are very restrictive and will cause excess crank case pressure, most likely blowing out a seal/gasket in time(usually the rear main seal on the crankshaft). Also, they will gunk up and become clogged in time. Also, they will make your engine compartment covered with oil/grease.

The pcv system is very good, only needing a new or cleaned pcv valve every ~100,000 miles. The valve is usually less than $5.

If you want to avoid gunk in the intake put a catch can between the pcv valve and the manifold, you'll keep the good pcv without causing other issues, and will keep the gunk out of the intake.

 

I just had an oil change last weekend, put seafoam in the truck including in the oil last night. Do I need to change it again ????

 

I just had an oil change last weekend, put seafoam in the truck including in the oil last night. Do I need to change it again ????

How much did you put in?

The problem is that if you have "gunk" for lack of a better term in the engine and the seafoam breaks it up and it can clog the oil filter screen, causing a blockage in oil flow. With a newer vehicle it's fine I'm sure though. I've heard of this only on old(like 15 year old, 200,000 mile) vehicles that weren't maintained well.

 

i put maybe a third in, I was just reading that the seafoam breaks down the oil, well makes it thinner reducing its ability to hold itself and clean. I have been doing regular oil changes every 3000 miles so I would hope not much gunk would be in there.

So final verdict is im good till the next oil change in 3000 miles?

 

I'd leave it....and I'm pretty anal with my vehicles lol

 

good to know! Just one last thing ill add in I work outa town all week and leave my truck parked and only drive it on weekends, will this hurt it with the seafoam cause its sitting in there longer before I hit 3000miles?

And I was wondering what oil you use, weight, and filter!

 

It'll be fine. Just don't use it all the time. I'd only use it like every 50k miles or so.

5w20, I use amsoil as I get it really cheap. I use the "O.E. synthetic", it's their cheapest oil. It's good for whatever the oem recommended oil change interval is, but I just do mine at 5k miles. I use a WIX filter.

 

okay thanks im thinking about spoiling the truck with some royal purple and mobil 1 filter, can you bring those to the shop and they do it for you?

 

yeah most places will do that. In reality the oil doesn't make much difference if changed on time. Synthetic is definitely better and especially for the price(since you can get it at the same price as conventional). Use a good filter. Don't use a regular cheap fram, they are not good. The expensive frams are ok, wix, napa gold, mopar, many others....I'd assume a mobil filter would be good.

 

alright thanks! anyways we will keep this convo relavent to seafoam! Mine didnt smoke at all but i didnt put it in the intake because I didnt know what line to do.

 

You can use the brake booster line. It won't smoke if you don't run it through the intake.

 

thats why, figured that! Any change you could snap a pic and post it of where it is? Im pretty sure I know just want to make sure, worth picking up another can and running some in there, and then the rest in a new tank of gas?

 

Yeah I can take a picture, I'm off the next two days. How many miles on your truck?

 

just broke 100k miles!

 

Sorry for the thread jack, didnt wanna start a new thread. I wanna add some seafoam to the oil right before the oil change. How long do i run the truck and do i drive it or idle/rev? Thanks guys

 

Just drive it like normal for a couple hundred miles then change. You can leave it till next oil change but I like to do it right away. Use cheap oil for the "flush".

 

thanks for the info. im gettin close to needing an oil change so i figured i would run about half a bottle in it and change it. whats the least amount of time i need to run it with it in there?