How to Seafoam your vehicle (Also called Top Engine Clean)

This is a carbon deposit cleaner that when used can help eliminate the carbon deposits that build up in the top end of your engine block. I perform this about every 15,000 miles on my own vehicle.
Steps to seafoaming:
1. Bring your vehicle up to normal operation temperature
2. Separate seafoam canister into 3 equal parts (one will be for sucking through a pvc line or brakebooster line, one for gas tank, and one for putting in the oil filler cap)
3. Locate the PVC valve that runs through the intake manifold, for this is where you will initially suck 1/3 of the seafoam canister through.
(If PVC is non accessible then you can use your brake booster line in the same manner.)
4. Once engine is at normal operational temperature, have another person sit in the drive seat and bring the engine RPM up to around 1500.
5. Pull your PVC off (or brake booster line) and start slowly sucking 1/3 of the seafoam in through either of these locations. Be cautious & steady handed, you don't want to stall the engine out.
6. Once you've sucked all of the 1/3 portion up turn the engine off & replace pvc or brake booster to its original housing.
7. Once engine is off, unscrew your Oil Filler cap & pour 1/3 of the seafoam in as if it were oil.
8. Unscrew gas cap and put the remaining 1/3 seafoam in.
9. Leave the car alone for 15 minutes.
10. Come back to the car and start it up, let it idle for about 10-15 seconds and then BRING ENGINE RPMS TO A STEADY 2000-3000RPM for no more than a couple minutes.
(major revving or fluctuation can knock carbon deposits loose so please keep a steady foot)
11. Once this is complete, take your car for a 10-15 mile drive, while doing so make sure to bring the engine through its total rev band spectrum to make sure all the carbon deposits have been cleaned out.
12. Once the drive is complete, bring the car back home.
13. CHANGE YOUR OIL & FILTER & SPARKPLUGS WITH KNOWN GOOD OEM SPEC PARTS.
(The reasoning behind this is that the seafoam lowers the viscosity of your oil, thus weakening its ability to control wear on your engines major mating surfaces and your plugs get buggered up with carbon after this tuneup due to the carbon coming loose during the tuneup.. So an Oil/Filter change & Spark Plugs are a must after seafoaming is complete
14. Tune Up is complete!

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[proudyke]

At :45 wouldn't that cause hydrolock if that is sucked up to fast ? I think it needs to be slowly dribbled in. But then again I am not too mechanically savvy

[DIYautotech]

@proudyke No, because it's being sucked through the PCV port, which responds to vacuum. So in the event that TOO much seafoam is sucked up, the PCV valve will close, thinking the vehicle is WOP, and kill the engine. It's actually very safe, and the exact reason why you use the PCV valve for this job. It's also combustible, unlike water, so hydro-locking would be very difficult.

[spelunkerd]

That's a good review. Is there any danger to the cat or O2 sensors from all that carbon coming out the exhaust pipe?

[DIYautotech]

@spelunkerd No, this product is Cat & O2S safe.

[DJDevon3]

Sorry but you make yourself sound incompetent every time you say pvc. Soon as you said that I stopped watching. Why watch an instructional video when the person cannot correctly name the parts they are working with. You are only regurgitating what you've seen done in other youtube videos. If I were you I'd delete this video, remake it, and get some credibility back.

[DIYautotech]

Credibility? I think my 43 videos, 100,000 views in 4 months, and 2,000 channel views PLUS over 150 subscribers is a ton of credibility. One of my clips on rotational inertia is being used in a demo video for NASA com. center of Long Beach. So keep the shit talk down.

[DIYautotech]

@DJDevon3 I love how everyone gets on me for saying PVC instead of PCV. I know it's positive crankcase ventilation, it was just a goof up infront of the video camera. Secondly, you're talking to an ASE CERTIFIED technician with 4 certifications. And if you don't like my videos, don't watch.

My ASE cert experience + my 4 certifications for automotive technologies via a 4 year college will DESTROY all knowledge you have about cars. So take your little 15 year old shit talk somewhere else.

[samuelbrainsample]

@P2dadecka They can afford 1080p cameras (not that they're expensive) because they're saving money doing their own car repairs.

[KAYLAMARIE1017]

Does he keep saying PVC?  Really??

[chevygearhead454]

yeah you definitely dont need to remove the negative terminal to change your oil

[bob1978amon]

wow when did they start putting a mechanic in a bottle, that's not bad for ten bucks, when can i buy hot strippers is a bottle.?

[mannyspeedy16]

No no no

Seafoam is bad idea, unless u want a connecting rod shooting throurgh the side of ur engine block. That stuff can hydrolock your engine. Plus redlining ur engine is terrible for it, u can bend a push rod, break a valve, or bend a connecting rod. All bad ideas dont try it. Seen this at my shop many times. Big no no.

[proudyke]

@DIYautotech Thank you for your explanation. I did the Sea Foam today, in thirds like you did and my Nissan Pick Up seems to be doing a lot better. Thanks again.

[TonkatrainHONKHONK]

@trijmedia123 Yes they have it at wal-mark, cambodian tire ect.