seafoam cleaning

[matt]

I have not done this yet but i do plan on it soon.   I had intake tubes off and could see back side of valves pulled plugs used my buddies scope lots of carbon.  Well I repair cars and push induction service which cleans piston tops valve faces so I have six hoses with aquirium valves on each hose and plan on hooking up to each intake port and turn up idle screw put fan in front of bike and open one valve a little at a time.  It probably may be a bit before I do this as bike is not stored at home and I blew out a tendon in right ankle and cannot get to bike as car is a standard(lol)  any one else ever try this

[F6BANGER]

I don't really understand what you are saying. Try re-reading it to see if it makes sense to you. No offense.

[matt]

what I am saying is you can add seafoam, techron  what ever cleaner you use and yes it does help carburators but does very little to carbon buildup on valves  and pistons so I plan on running seafoam thru intake ports to each cylinder one at a time  thru plugged ports on intakes.  It makes a huge differance on cars on performance and fuel mileage brings it back to where fuel mileage should be as carbon build up affects fuel mileage.  It does not matter what fuel you run if its ethonal induced there will be build up

[salty1]

Would Chemtool be a better product for this application since it burns more efficiently?  ???

[Mildew]

I've never put nothing but gas in my tank for years. Parked my bike 5 months last winter. It fired right up with the old gas still in it. I did put some seafoam in it not long ago. Had white smoke out my exhaust momentarily. Bike still runs new with  15 year old spark plugs, 87 octane, cobra pipes , baffled and un baffled. I'm wondering if any of that stuff makes any difference

[Patrick]

Carbon is normal, fact of life. One of the best ways to eliminate it is to introduce water spray into the induction system. This really doesn't need to be performed on these engines. If you really want to try and get rid of what carbon is present then I'd suggest running a couple tanks of fuel with heavy doses of Sea-foam thru it.
Personally, I think the way you want to introduce the Sea-foam via the intakes is a real PITA and won't do anything more than running it thru the fuel tank.

[matt]

The reason I say thru intakes is that is the most effective way we do it in the automotive world is thru the intake.  Every engine has carbon to a point, carbon absorbs gas and reduces hp as it does not ignite correctly in other words it changes the air to fuel mixture.  I do run sea foam thru tank very regulary and after putting a scope down into cylinder and looking at landing between valves I would say an intake treat ment would be way to go, weather sea foam or b-12 or chevron.  I do have automotive chem not sold over counter but feel it may be to strong and have used seafoam in automotive applications and scoped cylider out before and after and there is a differance in the amount of carbon.  Well like I said it may be awhile before I try it as bike is in a few pieces and tendon junk in ankle not doing as much as I wanted, but I will post after I do it and am going to see if anyone I know has a newer scope that does pictures

[BigBad1]

I have run Seafoam through the vacuum on a old F-150 that had been sitting. It smoked really bad until it burnt all the Seafoam but it really helped a lot. Just be prepared for the smoke storm.

[pancho]

Back in the day, we used to use Marvel Mystery oil to do that job,,,, right down the carburetor,,, just one of the many uses for that marvelous product. Who knows if it actually did any good, but after a treatment your butt dyno would always give you the confidence to line up with someone who had beat you last week.

[Farther]

Who knows if it actually did any good...

I am sure it did the Marvel Mystery Oil Co. a lot of good.  I personnally don't use any product with "mystery" in the title.   

[F6BANGER]

When I was a wrench 30 some years ago, my old boss (he used to mechanic for Bobby Unser) used to get the engine at normal operating temp and SLOWLY poor cold water down the carburetor(more like a trickle). He said the cold water would flake the carbon off.  Of course he would bring the rpm up to around 2500. I doubt this would work on our valkyries.

[matt]

Well water does remove carbon real good as it does not compress.( looks like a marble and will do that kind of damage) If I remember from school they first used water injector on ww11   long range bombers, they where told when engine starts to run rough inject water engine would start to fart and pop then run like new..  I also have seen people lock up motors so ya I would be real careful wth water.