Re: Diesel Damage to gas engine - valves??

Posted by Doyle Alley on April 07, 2005 at 08:02:05 from (12.96.60.2):

In Reply to: Re: Diesel Damage to gas engine - valves?? posted by Joe (Wa) on April 06, 2005 at 22:37:12:

Go to your local auto parts store (Napa carries it) and look for a product called Sea Foam. This will become your best friend. When used as a preventative, it works as good as Stabil for preserving stored gas. It also keeps carbon from building up on your valves, pistons, rings, and plugs. And, it cleans carbs and injectors. When used as a shock treatment, it will burn off carbon and gunk like nothing else. It has become the treatment of choice for 2-stroke outboard owners down here (outboards have a nasty habit of carbon fouling on the rings).
In your case, you'll need to use it as a shock treatment. The shock treatment rate is one can in 3/4 gallon of fuel (fuel/oil mix for 2-strokes). In your small application, I would't mix us a full 3/4 gallon. Just let the tank drain down (run the engine to get it good and hot) until there is only about a cup of fuel and then add about one fluid ounce of Sea Foam (keeping the 1 can to 3/4 gallon ratio). Crank up the motor and let run for a few minutes, then shut it down for 15 minutes. Then crank it up again for a few minutes and shut it down for 15 minutes. Do this until you've drained the tank. It will probably smoke like crazy the first two times you run it. That will be the carbon burning off. When there is no more carbon to burn off, the smoking will stop and your valves will be clean (as well as the other parts in the combustion chamber). By the way, it also works good in diesels.

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• Re: Diesel Damage to gas engine - valves?? Jay (ND) 10:05:12 04/07/05 (0)
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