Ah, Seafoam

[roccit53 at gmail.com (C Boyko)]

No need, with snow falling, we'll have the annual fogging oil ritual,
that's enoiugh to obscure vision for a mile or so. Good for the
environment too, I'm sure.
Cathy

On Nov 21, 2007 4:55 PM, GGehrke <ggehrke@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My roomate has had a nasty oil problem in his less than healthy Jetta
> - that is he was burning/leaking and instead of doing anything about
> it just kept pouring more oil in.  Well it finally took a crap on him
> so he took it in to a shop and they cleaned out his crankcase and oil
> pump, put in a new filter, yada yada.  I told him Seafoam might be a
> good idea at this point to help de-gunk everything too.  The idea is
> that we went really generous on the stuff because he's doing some
> highway driving for thanksgiving, after which we'll change the oil and
> filter again to make sure anything that got loosened up gets out.
>
> So anyways, today was seafoam day.  Put half a bottle in the gas, half
> in the oil, and sucked another half a bottle into the manifold.
> Killed it and let it sit a few minutes.  On startup we had enough
> smoke pouring out the back to piss off every neighbor in a 3 block
> semicircle.  Then, just to make sure, we drove around the neighborhood
> for a few minutes.  I'm a little worried that even after 10-15 minutes
> of idling, he's still smoking, but hopefully it's still just years of
> neglect being shed off the innards of the car.
>
> So if you haven't seafoamed your car lately, go pick a bottle up.  Too much fun.
>
> -Grant-
>
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