Sea Foam use

[razz2234]

Anyone here use Sea Foam...and have you had any luck, bad, or indifferent opinions on it?

[Yikes]

I started using Sea Foam as a gas additive when I got the bike a couple of years ago on the advice of friends who have moat motors to maintain.  I have been happy with it.  When I overhauled my carbs over the holidays, I found them to be pretty clean, which I attribute to the Sea Foam.  I also found it to be a good cleaner and used it to scrub the brown film off of the outside of the carbs.  I've never had a fuel related problem and the rubber fuel lines don't seem to be cracking over time except at the ends where the rubber is nor exposed to the fuel.

The best testament I've heard came from an auto parts store owner who used to work on the Outer Banks of North Carolina.  He said that his customers who owned commercial fishing boats would come into his store buy cases of the gallon size cans.  They wouldn't be using the stuff if it work for them.

But if you plan on pouring it directly into the carbs to clean them, be prepared to jump on the bike and head to the highway or else you and your location will be enveloped in a huge, huge cloud of smoke coming out of the tail pipes.

John M

[nhmaf]

I've used it to help clear partially obstructed/gummed carbs and it seems to work pretty well, at least as well or better than other similar products.  Some people use it as a gasoline stabilizer, but I tend to use the old STA-BIL product for that sort of thing.   Some claim to add a bit of it to the crankcase oil, which I have never done.   I will add it to a tank of gas a few times per year to try to keep carb deposits in check.  

Sometimes products like this have caused the rubber diaphragms in the carbs to swell.   I haven't experienced this personally but it is something to be aware of if you try to just soak your carbs with it.

[Semper Gumby]

+1 on the SeaFoam.

Seems to work OK.  When I opened my float bowls they were clean as a whistle.  Now I am having problems with the red paint coming off the interior of my tank but that is probable just because of the age of my tank (30 years).

I use the stuff because of claims by people that it keeps the O-rings and Diaphrams from drying out (from the ethanol).  I think you loose less fuel through evaporation when the bike sits out in the open.  

The SeaFoam is supposed to keep the carbon out of the cylinders and keep the rings free also.  I would like to talk with someone who has been using SeaFoam and then done a tear down to see if they noticed a difference.  I'm hoping it will be many years before I go into the heads of my bike.

I'm using 3oz for every 5 gallons of 87 octain.  The other thing I have changed is now I use only Shell, Texaco and Chevron Fuels in my bikes because of the Benzene additives in the fuel.  These also help to keep the engine parts clean.

So far so good.

[k_enn]

Another satisfied SeaFoam user here.  I have used it as a gasoline stabilizer and gasoline moisture reducer for winter storage.  It seems to work great for that purpose.

I have not used it as regular additive in the motorcycle, but I have used it as a cleaner on my passenger vehicle.  I let the evap. line on the intake suck in about half a cup of SeaFoam while the engine was running, then shut it down and let it sit for 15 minutes, then started it up.  After the cloud of smoke dissipated (do this only outdoors), the engine was running noticeably better.

k_enn