Sea Foam

So, it turns out that the bulk of my problem is probably just vacuum leak. (http://www.earlycj5.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36198)
Looking at the gasket and intake, I'm theorizing that maybe the driver's side head was getting decent fuel/air, while the pass side was all out of whack, as indicated by the soot blowing out the exhaust. Will know for sure after the rebuild. Thinking about sea foam to clean out some of the intake without pulling the top end (got a trail ride coming up). Does the stuff work, or is it snake oil?

 

Sea Foam was all the rage on the snowmobile forums. I have just tried my first bottle of it in Black Jeep. I have to pull the intake and timing cover from the motor to reuse on new motor so I wanted to see what this stuff would do. I added a full bottle of it to the existing oil. I have probably driven around 40 miles with it. I expect the inside to be pretty nasty so I will see, later today I hope, what the sea foam did for me.

 

Sea Foam is great stuff. I use it on my Rover 'cause they run rich from the factory. Gives your top end a good cleaning! Best used at a vacumn source. Dont do it in a garage: it will get real smokey.

 

i run a can through my 40hp evinrude every summer i love it ,jared

 

good stuff. I dump a can through the truck and the jeep after each oil change for injector/carb cleaner.

 

on the jeeps, do you guys throw a can down the carb, or just in the fuel.... when i first picked up the 71 i dumped some thorugh the carb...seemed to make a difference in my eyes at least

 

sometimes both......if it has set a lot some down the carb the rest in the tank.