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Has any one tried something called sea foam? In was told that some bike mechanics run some through older bikes.
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Some make 'em, most just make payments on 'em!
1978 XS 1100E
Vance & Hines Slip on Straight Shot Exhaust
K & N Air filter
Home built forward controls
Vulcan Mustang seat
A little chopped
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I use it everytime the bike sits for a month or two. Starts right up the next time I crank it and keeps the carbs clean.http://www.myspace.com/i_give_you_power
1980 XS11 Special - chopped, dropped and OCTY is still installed
- NOW IT'S FOR SALE! $1,800 OBO
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Click the search button above (blue bar), Type in Sea Foam and be prepared for the deluge of hits you'll get. We dont get it down here but it sure is popular in the US.1980 SG. (Sold - waiting on replacement)
2000 XJR1300. The Real modern XS11. Others are just pretenders.
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It is a great cleaner and stabalizer for fuel systems. I put it in my tank during colder months (Nov-Feb around here).Life is what happens while your planning everything else!
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81 XS1100 Special - Humpty Dumpty
80 XS1100 Special - Project Resurrection
Previously owned
93 GSX600F
80 XS1100 Special - Ruby
81 XS1100 Special
81 CB750 C
80 CB750 C
78 XS750Comment
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Sea foam
Yes, its good stuff. Great for after carbs have been cleaned to ensure total clean out! They also make a great product.....Deep Creep......a great rust buster on threads.....and stuff.
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1985 Goldwing Innr.
1976 cb 750 cafe racer
2007 vtx 1300
81 sx 1100 s h
81 sx 400 specialComment
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My bike will get to a point that when I pull up to stop lights, the idle will slowly.. over about a minute... drop until it will finally act like it's got a big lopey cam in it.. then die. I can stop at the gas station about 3 miles from my house, throw in 1/2 a can with a fill up, and by the time I ride it to the house those few miles, it'll be back to purring and holding steady at idle.
I'm a notorious cheap-azz... and I tried everything that was cheaper than Sea Foam, but nothing does work like it does. It does piss me off that they went from $6 a can to nearly $10 recently, but noticed that a local auto parts store has it back down at @ $7. Hopefully they priced themselves out of business at the higher rate and had to come back down. I saw Autozone has a gallon can for $50... and it's tempting. Would be cheaper that way.
Another instance... had a generator I hadn't started for @ a year. I could tell as I pulled on it, the gas was old/varnish smelling. Put some Sea Foam in there with some fresh gas and pulled and pulled.. then made my son pull and pull. .then I did some more. You could smell there was fresh gas getting through, but it just wouldn't start. Next day, was walking by it, gave it a pull again and it fired right up on the 2nd pull. Sea Foam had gotten in there and cleaned things up overnight.
Good stuff, and as good or better as Sta-Bil as a fuel stabilizer.
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Current bikes:
'06 Suzuki DR650
*'82 XJ1100 with the 1179 kit. "Mad Maxim"
'82 XJ1100 Completely stock fixer-upper
'82 XJ1100 Bagger fixer-upper
'82 XJ1100 Motor/frame and lots of boxes of parts
'82 XJ1100 Parts bike
'81 XS1100 Special
'81 YZ250
'80 XS850 Special
'80 XR100
*Crashed/Totalled, still ownComment
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I had never heard of the stuff until I found this forum, but it does seem to work well. Every time I go into Autozone, they try to sell me some version of injector cleaner at the checkout counter. I just tell them that I don't need it, and that Seafoam is much better anyway! I had one sales lady look at me and tell me not to say that so loud!
Even though Seafoam is more than twice the price, it seems they wanted to sell the "snake oil" stuff instead of the right product for the job...
1980 XS850SG - Sold
1981 XS1100LH Midnight Special (Sold) - purchased 9/29/08
Fully Vetterized and Dynojet Kit added, Heated Grips, Truck-Lite LED headlight, Accel Coils, Irridium plugs, TKAT Fork Brace, XS850LH Final Drive & Black SS Brake lines from Chacal.
Here's my web page devoted to my bike! XS/XJ User's Manuals there, and the XJ1100 Service Manual and both XS1100 Service manuals (free download!).
Whether you think you can, or you think you cannot - You're right.
-H. FordComment
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SeaFoam
I saw this at the local Autozone, and it was in a spray can.
Do you just point it into the fuel and empty the can into the gas tank?
Does it do any good to put SeaFoam into the oil (or any harm)?
Thanks1981 XS1100H "Venturer"Comment
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I've never seen it in a spray can, only a metal pint can of liquid.
TodTry your hardest to be the kind of person your dog thinks you are.
You can live to be 100, as long as you give up everything that would make you want to live to be 100!
Current bikes:
'06 Suzuki DR650
*'82 XJ1100 with the 1179 kit. "Mad Maxim"
'82 XJ1100 Completely stock fixer-upper
'82 XJ1100 Bagger fixer-upper
'82 XJ1100 Motor/frame and lots of boxes of parts
'82 XJ1100 Parts bike
'81 XS1100 Special
'81 YZ250
'80 XS850 Special
'80 XR100
*Crashed/Totalled, still ownComment
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seafoam
Hey Graham....you may be speaking of the Sea-foam "Deep Creep" i mentioned......its like wd40 but a 1,000,000 times better!At this time:
1985 Goldwing Innr.
1976 cb 750 cafe racer
2007 vtx 1300
81 sx 1100 s h
81 sx 400 specialComment
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If you put Seafoam in the oil to clean out the crankcase, do it at idle only for 10 min. then change the oil and filter.2H7 (79) owned since '89
3H3 owned since '06
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The pint can (not the spray) can be used in the oil, but don't run it under load that way. It can be added just before an oil change to clean out the oil passages, and the clutch plates. Just be sure to change the oil before you go riding anywhere.Originally posted by grahamfam3 View PostI saw this at the local Autozone, and it was in a spray can.
Do you just point it into the fuel and empty the can into the gas tank?
Does it do any good to put SeaFoam into the oil (or any harm)?
Sorry Phil - you typed faster than me!
1980 XS850SG - Sold
1981 XS1100LH Midnight Special (Sold) - purchased 9/29/08
Fully Vetterized and Dynojet Kit added, Heated Grips, Truck-Lite LED headlight, Accel Coils, Irridium plugs, TKAT Fork Brace, XS850LH Final Drive & Black SS Brake lines from Chacal.
Here's my web page devoted to my bike! XS/XJ User's Manuals there, and the XJ1100 Service Manual and both XS1100 Service manuals (free download!).
Whether you think you can, or you think you cannot - You're right.
-H. FordComment
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http://www.seafoamsales.com/how-to-u...-products.html
lots of uses on their sales site... Even a spray on there that I had never seen"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z. X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." - Albert Einstein
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1980 LG
1981 LHComment
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Almost sounds like the tooth fairySea Foam had gotten in there and cleaned things up overnight.. +1 on seafoam - good stuff.
I think I have a loose screw behind the handlebars.
'79 XS11 Standard, Jardine 4/1, Dyna DC1-1 Coils, 145 mains, 45 pilots, plastic floats - 25.7mm, XV920 fuel valves, inline fuel filters, speed bleeders, Mikes XS pods, spade-type fuse block, fork brace, progressive fork springs/shocks, manual petcocks, 750 FD, Venture cam chain tensioner, SS brake linesComment
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sea foam is great i run a small scooter(mopeds vespas tng stuff) repair and tuning shop
this is what i use to winterize the scoots and run it in all my stuff
its the only stuff out that that is good that is 2 stroke safe tooComment
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