Civic Water Steam Cleaning Engine Part 1

This cleaning method has been around for years to clean the combustion chambers of carbon. This method is safe if done correctly. This won't clean every component like seafoam would, but using seafoam could lead to many other problems if you have an old engine.

If your seals are being held up by sludge, seafoam will do it's job and clean everything out but can expose leaks.

Plus, the water cleaning method does not foul your spark plugs. Research this method and you'll see. If you have a decent condition engine with good seals, I'd prefer to use SeaFoam, since it cleans very well, and puts on an awesome smoke show!

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[Markitos203]

i use a steamer straight in the intake. more then likely all that water is only going to the 2 middle cylinders, the steam on the other hand gets distributed evenly and cleans the valves before even entering the cylinder

[sageuvagony]

That's actually a very smart idea! But I'm wondering if the steam actually makes it to the engine itself since the steam may be gone by the time it reaches the cylinders... I dunno, but the idea does seem good. I had a headgasket blow on my old engine. When I took off the head, I noticed that the head and pistons that had water/coolant in them we're 100% carbon free and were actually shiny. I even took pics of them.

[clemenza313]

r u sure this is the right way to clean a motor ????

[sageuvagony]

@clemenza313, SeaFoam actually works great. It also puts on a huge smoke show that makes other people around you wonder what the heck is going on. I loved seeing their expressions on their faces. The thing is, that SeaFoam sometimes works TOO good. My friend used SeaFoam on his old Nissan Truck, and ever since, he's been blowing a little blue smoke and buring a bit of oil, and leaks a tiny bit too. Sometimes hard gunk holds your seals together and SeaFoam removes that hard gunk.

[garrett6699]

Did you know the 4 beeps is Morse Code for the letter "H" ..haha I dont think many people realize that

[stretto94]

@garrett6699 Maybe it means "Help!".

[ttttonyyyy]

A wallpaper steamer applied to the inlet of my brother's landy cleaned it up a treat :) Not seen a stream of water injected directly before though, new one on me!

[thepalmetto]

@fitimio001 water can't be compressed, but you don't put enough in thee to hydrolock it. The solvent properties of the water is what cause it to clean out carbon. It's been done for years and much better than any snake oil you can pick up at autozone.

[outdoorsman310]

i was just thinking of doing this the other day!

[fitimio001]

Is the water going in the cylinders? Because water cant be compressed....

[MrPortuguese1]

has your engine died yet?

[bzmotoninja83]

@garrett6699 I did not know this...... now added to my unless book of knowledge

[EPTRotorsports]

This is rotary trick we have no rods to bend lol it wont hurt the motor if you do 2 things. Let engine hit operating temp so it vaporizes and run it at 3000rpm so it pulls less water into each cylinder at each stroke. And use the vacuum it self to pull the water not a sprayer. And never tap water lol.

[ncbeatty88]

you should have used a fine sprayer in the throttle body with "DISTILLED WATER" your shooting minerals and chlorine and flouride and whatever else they put in tap water into your engine. pure H20 is much better for this... and does work