Adding Sea Foam into the engine oil to help for sticky injectors?

woodduck97 · Feb 14, 2012

I have a 2003 F-450 with 45k miles on it and it has a sticky injectors problem and I have added rev-x to the oil and have driven the truck about 1k miles or more and really have not noticed a big difference in start up.
My question is can I add this to the oil to clean the oil side of the injector so sticktion will stop? Also please don't respond saying dont put it in it. I want to know why not to or how it will harm the engine if it will harm the engine.
Thanks Danny.

kadeninabnitt · Feb 14, 2012

My uncle did it on his 03 it took care of the problem. as far as I know he hasn't had issues since.

hawgdoctor · Feb 14, 2012

That, or stop by the shop Danny. I have a flush I use from amsoil that works pretty damned good too. Have done it mine once to help cure the issue about a year ago.

F-250-Owner · Feb 14, 2012

hawgdoctor said:
That, or stop by the shop Danny. I have a flush I use from amsoil that works pretty damned good too. Have done it mine once to help cure the issue about a year ago.

still waiting on my flush.... guess I have to drive all the way down there....

oke:

hawgdoctor · Feb 14, 2012

F-250-Owner said:
still waiting on my flush.... guess I have to drive all the way down there....oke:

Sh*t, forgot to send you yours. Shoot me your addy again brother lol.

F-250-Owner · Feb 14, 2012

no biggie....pm sent

PatriotHauling · Feb 14, 2012

I wouldnt run any additive in the oil long term. Generally I do it about 500 miles before an oil change if I think its needed.

woodduck97 · Feb 15, 2012

Well I did add it to the motor a day before I had posted this and so far I have seen a great increase in performance out of the truck. Faster starts and more power going down the road when I need to get moving.

Keanoknick · Feb 18, 2012

Why bother posting and asking IF you can add this to the oil, when you've already done it?

woodduck97 · Feb 22, 2012

Keanoknick said:
Why bother posting and asking IF you can add this to the oil, when you've already done it?

Because I wanted to see what peoples opinions were on it. But opinions are like azzholes and everyone has one. :clapping:

MUDSTROKIN' · Feb 23, 2012

How much did you add?

woodduck97 · Feb 23, 2012

I added the whole bottle being it said one can does 10 quarts.

lincolnlocker · Feb 23, 2012

Seafoam is good stuff!

old96stroker · Feb 23, 2012

seafoam is for your truck as grannies elixir is for her off of beverly hillbillies. I put a bottle in like one of the other posters said just before oil changes, good stuff.

woodduck97 · Feb 23, 2012

lincolnlocker said:
Seafoam is good stuff!

Tell me about it. We bought a jon boat back in december and had a running problem. Been sitting for over 3 years and maybe used once a year do to the guy having to work extra hours and taking his wife to cancer treatments. 04 Yamaha 75 4 stroke on it. Well it had a running problem at idle so we figured it was just dirty carbs cause that is the problem most of the time with them. Come to find out it had low compresion from the rings being stuck. Are local marine place said take 4 gallons of gas and one bottle of sea foam and run that through the motor. He said run wide open from start till that tank is almost outta gas then add more regular gas. Well we did seen a little help at first. So then we got home and threw the compression tester on it again then they were all back to factory specs of 175. We kind were like WTF. So we hooked the hose up to it and started it up and it was running like a new engine. Well we took it right back down to the river and took it out and could not believe it. Damn thing has been running a top ever since that day.

Another experience since then is with my Honda accord. It has 260k on it and would smoke bad on every other start up but did not smell like oil. Well went up to Napa got a can of the spray sea foam and followed the directions and since I have done that 2 weeks ago it has not smoked since.

bboteler · Feb 29, 2012

I'm giving you credit man it takes some big ones to be that honest on an open forum...you know you'll get ribbed for doing it before you asked. Hahaha

woodduck97 · Feb 29, 2012

bboteler said:
I'm giving you credit man it takes some big ones to be that honest on an open forum...you know you'll get ribbed for doing it before you asked. Hahaha

LOL Oh yeah that is why I posted it the way I did. For a update on the truck it just has the smallest hiccup now on first start up and running strong still.

Lubbockguy1979 · Mar 2, 2012

woodduck97 said:
Tell me about it. We bought a jon boat back in december and had a running problem. Been sitting for over 3 years and maybe used once a year do to the guy having to work extra hours and taking his wife to cancer treatments. 04 Yamaha 75 4 stroke on it. Well it had a running problem at idle so we figured it was just dirty carbs cause that is the problem most of the time with them. Come to find out it had low compresion from the rings being stuck. Are local marine place said take 4 gallons of gas and one bottle of sea foam and run that through the motor. He said run wide open from start till that tank is almost outta gas then add more regular gas. Well we did seen a little help at first. So then we got home and threw the compression tester on it again then they were all back to factory specs of 175. We kind were like WTF. So we hooked the hose up to it and started it up and it was running like a new engine. Well we took it right back down to the river and took it out and could not believe it. Damn thing has been running a top ever since that day.

Another experience since then is with my Honda accord. It has 260k on it and would smoke bad on every other start up but did not smell like oil. Well went up to Napa got a can of the spray sea foam and followed the directions and since I have done that 2 weeks ago it has not smoked since.

ive used diesel to do the same thing. good to know i could use seafoam as well.

so using the seafoam in out trucks should not present a problem or break down the oil in the long term since it would still be present after the oil change just diluted? i would think tha it would take 2-4 oilchanges to dilute it down to non existant though

protraxrptr17 · Mar 2, 2012

I put two bottles in my own truck over 2000 miles ago just to experiment. Didnt seem to help my stiction problem. I ran it a few days and then finally just replaced the bad injectors. Hasnt blown up yet. :rockon:

Just to clarify, I put two whole bottles in my engine oil and I have not changed the oil since then, so its still in there. I aint skeered.