| Author | Message | ||
     Greg French (Gregfrench) Senior Member Username: Gregfrench Post Number: 539 Registered: 11-2002 |
I am getting near the "1000 mile till my next oil change" point, and was going to put some Sea Foam in with the oil. I recently switched to Mobil 1 Synthetic. Will there be a bad reaction between the two, or will it be pretty much the same as if I added it to Dino? | ||
| June H. Han (Junehhan) Member Username: Junehhan Post Number: 54 Registered: 04-2003 |
Out of curiosity, what is Sea Foam? If you are using Mobil 1, the oil itself will have no problems keeping your engine clean, and minimizing the sludge and deposit formations and shouldn't need anything added to the oil. | ||
| Greg French (Gregfrench) Senior Member Username: Gregfrench Post Number: 542 Registered: 11-2002 |
Sea foam is the mack daddy engine cleaner stuff. Use it in your gas tank as a fuel system cleaner, in your oil as a valve cleaner, and the spray version in your air and vacuum line intake. So far, I have noticed a difference every time I have used it, but nothing quantitative, so it may be psychosymatic. | ||
| June H. Han (Junehhan) Member Username: Junehhan Post Number: 61 Registered: 04-2003 |
I see, I guess it's similar to that BG 44k stuff that you see around. I would say that although I can't think of any reason not to add it into the gas, or spray it into the intake, I see no reason to put it in the engine oil if you are using a high detergent full synthetic motor oil like Mobil 1. | ||
| Greg French (Gregfrench) Senior Member Username: Gregfrench Post Number: 543 Registered: 11-2002 |
It supposedly cleans the carbon off the valves. Don't know if Mobil 1 has the chemicals in it to do that. It will probably help it from building up, but as far as cleaning that which is already there, I don't know. | ||
| eric johnson (Eric2) Member Username: Eric2 Post Number: 74 Registered: 05-2003 |
To clean carbon of the intake valves, a tankfull of Chevron gas, which contains techron, and a bottle of techron added to that, will be about as good as the non-mechanic can do. The injectors get the techron on the valve stem and "tulip". No additive will clean the exhaust valve stem. At any rate, you don't need to add a cleaner to an engine that is running synthetic, unless it's been running dino oil most of it's life and has just been switched over. A friend of mine, who is a LR mechanic, had his dad switch his '89 RR to synth early on. They just took off the front timing gear cover to change the stock timing gear and chain at 180K miles. The internal parts had a nice golden patina - no crusty sludge chunks or black goo anywhere. Once an engine is broken in, synth is the way to go. |
