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Looks kind of like foggin' the boat motor for the winter. How much sea-foam did ya' run through??I have to ask why? Was it running poor? I have a 10 year old pull-yer-ass Magnum 500 and it starts and runs fine but now you got me wondering if I need to do this.RAYMAN54,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
I run seafoam through the throttle body of all my gas vehicles but I've never done my atv. I started doing it when GM changed the formula for their top end cleaner a couple of years back. Fuel injected vehicles tend to get a carbon buildup on the intake side of the manifold. Seafoam clears it right out. I usually pour it in and let it sit an hour or overnight. Then fire it up and drive it around. It fogs out the neighborhood but man does the vehicle run an idle much smooooother.
On my machine my carb is vertical though so pouring is out of the question.Joe
Any luck with spraying into a horizontal carb? I just picked up a 2003 Kawasaki Bayou 250 that bogs without choke. I know it probably needs a proper carb clean, but I'm wondering if this little trick could buy me some time until its a little warmer for that kind of tinkering. That and a weekend day cleaning a carb is a day not fishing.
I was planning to add some seafoam to the gas tank once I got her back running. Is that what you mean by run it through the engine, or is there something else I should be doing? I'll give the oil a shot too. Probably should change the oil since I have no idea when the previous owner last changed it. Do you run seafoam in the new oil or just the old for a bit before you change it out? Supposed to have a high of 28 degrees here tomorrow, woohoo, so I'm taking the day off from work to tinker on it.
where do you buy this stuff, and how much?