Re: Where's The Smoke? - Sea Foam Cleaner...

|Want smoke? Its easy: | |Take off your air cleaner. Start your engine and prop open the throttle |for 1500 rpm. Start pouring Dextron III slowly into the intake manifold. | |You'll get lots of smoke. | |The theory is auto transmission oil acts like a penetrating oil to free |sticking valves and promote upper cylinder lubrication. Of course, that is |an urban myth but you would be surprised how many "professional" auto |servicemen actually performed this useless operation (for money, of course) |in my father's day.

I always used water, with occasional ATF (for regularity of course)

Rex in Fort Worth

Yo bud, the ATF 'clean' is most certainly not useless!

It will clean the inside of the combustion chamber like new.

If I am doing any head work, I do that clean first and when I open it up it is super clean which makes for easy inspections and easy head gasket changes.

I did mine a couple years ago for a head gasket leak and when I opened it up there were a couple loose chunks of carbon still laying around inside. They were almost 1/8" thick and hadn't gotten blown out the exhaust yet because I didn't drive it after the clean.

It also does 'wonders' for city driven vehicles that develop a ping or timing knock.

Mike

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