Carbons

[offthepavement]

Any suggestions on how to clean out the carbonation in the engine and whats thats places ???

 

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[Dzimm]

Grab yourself a can of Seafoam spray and a can of regular Seafoam.

 

- Spray the whole can of spray through the intake with it at about 1500-2000 rpm. A coin under the throttle linkage works well. This takes about 5 mins and usually you won't see much smoke until 3/4 of the way through the can. When the can is about gone, flood the engine with the spray so it dies, or shut the key off quickly to allow it to hot soak in the cylinders for 30 mins. Afterwards, take it for a drive and drive it harder than you normally would to help break up any other loose carbon.

 

- take off the intake tube and use a rag and nylon brush to clean the throttle plate.

 

- pour the regular can of Seafoam into the gas tank at your next fill up. This will clean the fuel injectors and help clean any leftover carbon from before.

 

Do all three of these and youre as good as you'll get without taking the head off the motor and cleaning by hand.

[Green Mesa XJ]

Ecomike at NAXJA just had a thread examining this, he wanted to "water board" his engine. Water board was a joke referring to a old school solution using water to remove carbon.

 

I've use seafoam in the intake similar to the instruction above and in the tank. When I had to do the exhaust & intake gasket the intake side was clean for a jeep.

 

I want to say it was cruiser54 who recommended Mike use BG44k, supposed to be better than seafoam. But if you've already got seafoam it works for what you want to do, I didn't know it came in a aerosol spray I've always seen it in the regular cans.

 

 

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[Dzimm]

Ecomike at NAXJA just had a thread examining this, he wanted to "water board" his engine. Water board was a joke referring to a old school solution using water to remove carbon.

 

I've use seafoam in the intake similar to the instruction above and in the tank. When I had to do the exhaust & intake gasket the intake side was clean for a jeep.

 

I want to say it was cruiser54 who recommended Mike use BG44k, supposed to be better than seafoam. But if you've already got seafoam it works for what you want to do, I didn't know it came in a aerosol spray I've always seen it in the regular cans.

 

 

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I'll have to check out BG44K myself. I've never heard of it. As for the Seafoam spray, I've only found it at Walmart but I recon Amazon has it. The parts stores don't seem to have it. It's just the regular formula of Seafoam but in aerosol form. It comes with a really long straw to feed into the intake tube.

 

You can do the same thing by SLOWLY pouring the regular liquid Seafoam into the intake. I've also heard of people using a vacuum line from the intake stuck in the can so it sucks it out like a straw but I've got no experience with this method.

[MeanLemons]

https://www.cherokeeforum.com/f30/steam-cleaning-your-4-0-a-226299/

[offthepavement]

Well i tried the steam engine method now it won't turn on haha jk.i did do it ever so slowly not sure if it worked or not yet.I'm letting the truck cool down.hopefully if it didnt help hopefully it didnt hurt it.well see tomorrow

 

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[Crash]

 

Ecomike at NAXJA just had a thread examining this, he wanted to "water board" his engine. Water board was a joke referring to a old school solution using water to remove carbon.

 

I've use seafoam in the intake similar to the instruction above and in the tank. When I had to do the exhaust & intake gasket the intake side was clean for a jeep.

 

I want to say it was cruiser54 who recommended Mike use BG44k, supposed to be better than seafoam. But if you've already got seafoam it works for what you want to do, I didn't know it came in a aerosol spray I've always seen it in the regular cans.

 

 

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I'll have to check out BG44K myself. I've never heard of it. As for the Seafoam spray, I've only found it at Walmart but I recon Amazon has it. The parts stores don't seem to have it. It's just the regular formula of Seafoam but in aerosol form. It comes with a really long straw to feed into the intake tube.

 

You can do the same thing by SLOWLY pouring the regular liquid Seafoam into the intake. I've also heard of people using a vacuum line from the intake stuck in the can so it sucks it out like a straw but I've got no experience with this method.

Seafoam spray can be had at O'reilly, carquest/AAP, Napa etc.

I usually do a half can of Berryman B-12 ( Seafoam is basically the same, just not been around as long and more expensive than B-12 ) through the brake booster line.

Clean TB with TB cleaner. And use either B-12 or MMO in the tank.

I have also used the BG stuff and Amsoil Pi

[shelbyluvv]

Seafoam is snake oil. There is a youtube video proving that it doesn't do $#!& but cost you money.

[Dzimm]

Seafoam is snake oil. There is a youtube video proving that it doesn't do $#!& but cost you money.

LOL I wondered if someone would say this. There's also videos that proves it works. I've personally seen a cylinder head before and after Seafoam and it worked, didn't remove everything, but damn close. It all depends on how bad the carbon is. If it is bad enough, no carbon remover will work and cleaning it by hand is the only way to get it off.

 

It also depends on how you implement the carbon cleaner into the engine. Pouring into the gas tank is the least affective on the cylinders but the only way to clean injectors without removing them. Sucking the cleaner through the intake is the best way to clean the cylinders and valves but you must shut the engine off and let it heat soak for the best results.