Seafoam on VE's
 

Any VE owners use alot of sea foam before an oil change? seems like it would help clear the oil gallies and help out with clack...

~Alex

I used Seafoam more in the combustion chambers/gas tank

Marvel Mystery Oil in the oil once or twice a couple hundred miles before changing


(mainly because it's a lot more fun to pull seafoam through the combustion chamber :o)

Didn't really notice much of a difference, but it's been quite a while and I wasn't really looking for one :gotme:

instructions?

or

show and tell please

this is funny cuz my friend and I seafoamed yesterday. his 93 prelude srv and my 93 maxima. both 200k kms on the cars and we smoked the entire neighbourhood like mad. he noticed smoother idle, and i noticed less hesitation and a quieter engine.

Ok well the post got deleted. ><

I was talking about adding seafoam to the oil to clean all the oil passages in the block.

Marshall- Im sure its been posted before just search for it.

~Alex

Yeah there's been quite a few seafoam threads lately

Im just looking results specific to the oiling system and VTC's, not wow my car runs smoother....

~Alex

I've run it in my 98 accord before, 100k miles, helps if it was running like ****, I keep on it enough anymore to break down gunk anyways.

Pour it in the intake or a vac line into engine SLOWLY until it stalls engine out. Let it sit for 15 minutes then start it(its hard) then go nuts, live at the redline for the next 10-15 minutes until it quits smoking. If you get hurt or hurt anything doing this, not my fault.

They say don't use it on engines with more than 150k, who knows.

Tried it this past weekend on our old POS beater Volvo, smoked like crazy. Hesitates a lot less, so I guess it's worth it. btw, you don't have to let it stall, you slowly let the brake booster vacuum line suck it up slowly, before the engine dies out, then when it drinks it all up you turn off the car. Let it sit a while, then have fun with the smoke screen. And yea, you gotta be patient on getting it to start.

I didn't notice a huge difference after I did it in my VE, but that could be because the previous owner kept it clean/ recently did it. But it laughed at the 8oz it sucked up through the brake booster. It didn't even hesitate sucking it up. And it started like it wasn't even there.... crazy.

I've only done it once on my car in the past 25,000 miles and I still don't think its due, in the winter it seems to run rougher overall but the summer makes it run nice and smooth.

If your running high miles on your Max ( or any other car ) i would not recommend putting this in yor crankcase. Yes you wanna remove sludge and carbon ect.. but over time this will help form a seal on older engines. Using the seafoam can break that lose but at the same time start to cause you issues down the road. If something is about to give then there is the chance that this can help free it lose unexpectadly. Ive seent his happen on 2 cars so far. If your running a new car or motor then you can use it to help prevent build up but with an older, high mileage car, stick with putting it in your gas to clean the injectors ect.. or you can run it through the break booster hose into the manifold.

i dont know about the VE's, but i've done them on the Vq's a bunch of times, all the 4th gens/ and 5th gen i've owned, and most of them were over 130K.. my current 4th gen has 200K.. YOU should of seen it smoke.. and i also did the crankcase too, it cleand it good...

Im really glad people read all the posts. I know exactly what seafoam is, what it does, how it works and all that fun stuff. All Im looking for is what kind of results VE owners have had putting it in their crankcase and if it helped their VTC clack.

IMO,any additive that you dump into the crankcase won't do squat for the vtc's[temporary cushion at best]...The clacking noise is from a worn part..the internal spring inside the vtc assemblies to be more exact...The spring weakens and starts to "clack" against the vtc end cap,mainly from lack of oil flow to them[small oil gallies getting clogged with sludge]...

So yes maybe seafoam "might" loosen up this sludge buildup in the gallies.But in the end,you still have a worn part that cannot be fixed with an additive...


Personally i think the only way to sucessfully remove the sludge is by removing the heads,then using a pipe cleaner type tool to clean out the gallies,then replace vtc springs...You would be good for another 150k maybe,but IMO the tiny oil gallies that feed the vtc's will eventually clog up again,imo they are simply too small..

And lastly,no i have never used seafoam in my car..if i were to use it,i wouldn't pay $8 a pint for seafoam,i would go get a half gallon of kerosere for $1.50 and dump it in my car..It's pretty much the same thing..



Ok,i'm done rambling now...:arrow: