By the way, your car is hot!! love the wheels.

 

and it wont get into the intake manifold and everything else you are trying to clean.

 

I didn't rev the engine as it was being sucked in. Took alittle too much in on the first gulp and the engine shut off. It did the rest slower plugging the vacuum hose with my thump between gulps then immediately shut it off for 5 min. After 5 min come back and rev up the rpm to 2500-3000. I waited for all the big smoke to go away then I drove the car around for about 3 miles until all smoke was gone. BTW I did it on my sister's Rodeo. My max doesn't need this.

 

Your Max is 2 years old... it wouldn't hurt to try it. I am going to Seafoam my boss' Sebring convertible... Should be interesting.

 

Yeah you're right, but I'm going to wait until right before my next oil change which is actually pretty soon before doing this. People are always talking about how filthy their butterfly valves are in their throttle body, but mine is almost spotless at 53K

 

Um try opening that butterfly and see what's on the other side. I can already tell it's dirty.

 

it sure is..you can see it around the edges. you need to take it off to really clean it. look on my webpage..shows how to remove it.

 

You think SeaFoam on a rag will take it off? I may go buy 2 more cans because I'll probably do this and also again on my sisters car along with maybe a fuel treatment.

 

i just use a spray throttle body cleaner. cheaper and easier to use

 

Well I cleaned my throttle body by taking it off and cleaning both sides of the butterfly valve. There was a gasket between the two. Not too sure if I put it back on exactly the way it was. Now it seems at 3K I hear a loud sucking sound. I know this is normal for intakes, but I don't remember this sound before I did anything.

..... and now my SES light is on. I'm now at school so I can't reset it, but I will tonight and see if it stays off. Has anyone with a 2K2 taken off their throttle body, and how exactly did you put the gasket back on. There were these 3 taps on 3 sides with one side normal. I put the normal side up top.

 

This is what I found in ALLDATA at school about what to do if you disconnect the throttle body:

DESCRIPTION
"Throttle Valve Closed Position Learning" is an operation to learn the fully closed position of the throttle valve by monitorizing the throttle position sensor output signal. It must be performed each time harness connector of electric throttle control actuator or ECM is disconnected.

OPERATION PROCEDURE


Turn ignition switch "ON".
Turn ignition switch "OFF" wait at least 10 seconds . Make sure that throttle valve moves during above 10 seconds by confirming the operating sound.

 

Looks a little dirty to me too. Spray throttle body cleaner, and wipe it off with a rag... I need to take mine out also to see what is behind it. Dirty as all getout probably. When you look at the butterfly, notice the outside edges, those need to be really spotless so it can make a tight close at idle. I am doing the Seafoam on my boss' convertible tomorrow, should the process be the same... prolly so unless Chrysler put the hose in the trunk...

 

If you read the last two post you can see I've already taken off my throttle body/ throttle actuator and cleaned it. There wasn't much stuff at all behind the valve. Now I'm trying to figure out how to figure out the "throttle valve closed position learning" steps. As of now my ground is off the battery and hopefully tomorrow the SES light will be gone when I hook it back up.

 

I have noticed in my Max that after 3 start-ups/trips the SES light goes off unless there is something truly bad going on. A couple of months ago I flew off the road trying to avoid crazy driver, SES light came on when car spun out and I accelerated to try and get out of ditch. No damage to car luckily. I was also stopped in high water once and SES came on. After a few trips the computer reset itself or something and the light was gone. My dad told me this and he's a mechanic. So far he has been right. I hate unplugging battery because of clock and radio.

 

OK. I just did the Sea Foam Treatment. I also dont know for sure, but I think I am the first 5.5 gen to do it....

Basically, did as Sooner said and after the 5 min when starting the car, the SES tripped and then started blinking at me. I knew that there was NOTHING wrong but a build up of crapp that was moving around in there so I stayed on the gas and watched the street get cloudy.

After about 45 seconds the SES stopped blinking and went to solid. woo hoo. SES is still on but it will clear in a couple days. Car runs ok.

The only big difference I see is the IDLE. It is actually back up where it used to be. The last few months my idle has been very low, like almost dead car. Anyway, this is an OK cleaning function and it will work if you just take your time and dont try to ball out after putting this stuff in your car. a good minute of 3,000 RPM cleans it right out.

 

Now to everybody.. go to your favorite autopart and buy new oil and filter..also get an engine flush cleaner... pour it into the engine and clean the engine ... I just did and I have always used synthetic and to my surprise a lot of crap came out of the oil.. So everybody "FLUSH THE ENGINE AFTER SEA FOAM"

Have a nice weekend... hehehehehe

 

I just changed my oil after the sea foam. Should be good now.

Cleared the SES light and now the car is good to go.

 

I just Seafoamed my car. I went to O'Rieleys and they had it for $5.69. I followed the instructions that someone else posted except I didn't submerge the whole vacuum line. I allowed it to suck up the seafoam and a little air at the same time which allowed the car to stay running and get all of the solution in at one time quickly so the motor could be stopped. Another quick note: if your doing this at home and your car is half way sticking out of the garage, be sure to tell your neighbors what your doing. I didn't and the result was several neighbors running over to my house with cell phones getting ready to call the fire dept. because they thought the house was on fire, from all the smoke. It took a good 4 min to get rid of the smoke from the exhaust. It seems to idle real smooth and the SES light didn't come on. The roads are wet now so I can't say much on performance yet.

 

I just changed my oil right before the seafoam. Does that mean I need to change it again? I use synthetic as well, so thats kinda expensive to change it again.

 

IO don't know.. but I did the Sea foem last week a nd change the oil this weekend and believe me the oil was nasty adn I only ran that oil change for 2500 miles..... I dont know... I 'm tellng you guys what I saw in my oil.... good luck

 

i would also recommend changing your oil. i changed mine a week before i did the seafoam. just checked a few days ago and its pretty dark. im changing mine tomorrow.

 

I did the sea foam to three of our cars last night,
My 02 Max with 31k
My 94 wrangler with 130K
and My mom's 01 Camry with 80k

My max basically didnt smoke at all, Jeep smoked for a little bit, while the camry smoked for a while, i mean a while!!!, also threw a code, but i reset it and its fine now

I've only driven the jeep since the change, and i dont feel anything yet, we'll see when i will drive my max tomorow

 

Just did the sea-foam on Saturday. I had valve rattle when the car was under a low load while driving. I gotta admit, the $5 on the seafoam was worth every penny. The car's running smooth as silk again! Just wanted to say thanks to all of you who recommened the stuff. Saved me a lot of money and/or my sanity!

 

drove my max today, no visible or noticable changes, but then again there was nothign really wrong with my max to begin with

 

I want to take the slackers method and put it in my gas tank rather than the vaccum line. Will is still see results? Should i do it twice?
and yes id get an oil change afterward

 

Can you do that? Yes
Will it do the same thing? No

 

I had gotten my engine flushed about 2 weeks ago, Do you think I would have to do this again if i go with the seaform I mean oil change is a must for me right now but i dont wanna do the engine flush again. will it be really important to do?

 

Exactly why would you have to engine flush (which is too hard imho) your engine after using Seafoam?

 

How hard could it be to add an oil flush additive before changing the oil. As I said, I have used syn oil since new and after the flush the oil was really bad. I always change my oil after 3500 miles andhave never seen the oil so bad... I don't know it is just my .02 cents to everybody.

 

damn i just did my oil change too. Amsoil so damn expensive... ooo well. I think i will try this next week. I've been having some idling problems while starting the start.

 

Seafoam in the oil IS an engine flush. Why do it again with another engine flush? IMHO those 15 min engine flushes are too harsh on the engine IMHO.

 

I read the label and the Seafoam in the oil is more like an additive not a Flush. I was trying to get rid of all the crap that was in the engine oil after the sea foam ........

 

What crap is left after the Seafoam?? From what I read on the label it cleans the engine

 

pretty sure you have to be carefull w/ this stuff, cant let too much get sucked up at at time, every thread i read on it says put it in SLOWLY, not sure what the consequnces are if you do it to quick.......

I found it at an autozone in a spray can, sprayed in half the can over 4-5 min, the other 1/2 went in the crankcase. let it sit for 1/2 hr, some white smoke on startup.....smoth idle restored some power.

 

The consequence of letting it suck in too fast would be the engine shutting down.

 

this was not to be done with the spray. i also saw the spray, but bought the regular can..

 

Actually, the engine could hydrolock too... not a good thing.

http://www.prepsparkplugs.com/hydrofact.htm

 

Just did the SEAFOAM gig. Just follow the directions on the can to the letter and let the hose suck air and the SEAFOAM at the same time so the engine won't die. Let it sit for 5 minutes and then start er up and maintain 3000 RPMs until no more white smoke. Helps a whole bunch-way smoother acceleration, start-up etc. Highly recommend it!

 

I used it last weekend too. Thanks to all ya'all for letting us plebians know how to do it. Incidentally, I used a different hose to pull the seafoam in. Theres a vaccuum hose that goes from the cast alum. intake to a resevoir thats mounted below the engine cover. It was easier to get to and should've had the same effect.

 

Any reason why you can't use the the hose that goes to the IACV? Take if off from valve and dip it into the seafoam. This way it goes through the butterfly and cleans everything in the intake tract. You won't get it on the Maf, because this hose is further down (on the 4th gen anyway).

Not sure if this what the previous post was alluding to....