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Old Apr 19, 2011 | 02:54 PM
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Question sea foam. which hose?

have heard great things about this product but search is not working. which hose do I add it to? anyone w/ picture would be great. 180k on truck hoping this stuff is as magical as people say. whats your advice? thank you
 
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Old Apr 19, 2011 | 03:48 PM
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Half in brake booster line, half in gas tank. You want to pour it down the brake booster line in small increments as to not choke the engine out, then on the final pour dump it all in and let the engine choke. Wait 30-45 minutes and fire her up. It will smoke.
 
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Old Apr 19, 2011 | 03:52 PM
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Pretty much any vacuum line that goes into the intake manifold will work, but most people use the brake booster.
 
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Old Apr 19, 2011 | 03:58 PM
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so pour it down hose going into air intake from brake booster.. not sure what that is. but do this while the engine is running then poor the other half into the fuel tank... better to poor in fuel when almost empty or??
 
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Old Apr 19, 2011 | 05:35 PM
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the only hose that goes into the brake booster pull it off and start the truck up and it will hiss slowly poor the liquid down the line using 1/3 - 1/2 of bottle then shut truck off wait as long as u want pref 5 mins minimum then fire it up let idle for a 30 sec to 1 min then slowly start increasing rpm with a few floor mashes till not alot keeps pouring out then let idle or take her for a drive! also before u crank back up put brake boooster line back up!
 
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Old Apr 19, 2011 | 05:49 PM
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Originally Posted by kerrs lawn service
so pour it down hose going into air intake from brake booster.. not sure what that is. but do this while the engine is running then poor the other half into the fuel tank... better to poor in fuel when almost empty or??
The brake booster is the big huge black circle thing that is mounted on the firewall.... it has the master cylinder attatched to it (master cyl is a silver cylinder with a small resivior on top for brake fluid).

Make sure not to pour too fast, or the engine will die. it's best to have someone else in the truck holding it at around 1500 rpms to aid in atomization of the fluid, and to keep the truck from dying.

Once you have emptied around half of the can, reconnect the hose, and turn the truck off and wait... oh, we'll say 15-however many minutes you feel like waiting. This allows the seafoam to break up the carbon deposits in the top end of the engine.

After waiting a little while, fire her up. If you did it right, it will smoke.... a lot (this is normal). Either rev the engine a bit (not too high... 3k tops), or drive around the block aggressively for a minute. Once all the smoke comes out, you're done. Truck should run and idle better now.

EDIT: make sure you pour it in with the brake booster hose attached to just the intake, not into the brake booster itself... that wouldn't end well
 
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Old Apr 19, 2011 | 07:15 PM
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thanks for the help guys.
 
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Old Apr 19, 2011 | 07:43 PM
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i dump mine with the the blades on the throttle body closed still sucks up threw the lil cracks. also do in the brake booster help and some in the gas tank
 
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Old Apr 20, 2011 | 06:41 PM
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sea foam in. half a bottle in brake booster letting her die at the end then added other half to quarter tank of gas. going to let it sit over night. she will be working tomorrow pulling 4000 pound trailer. guess we will see if its really what people say it is
 
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Old Apr 21, 2011 | 01:28 PM
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i did a seafoam yesterday on my ram, the smoke was funny... i smoked out the whole street..... truck seems to run better.....
 
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