Sold on Seafoam

[mike5511]

WOW!

What a hot topic!
I'm amazed to see so many infrequent posters comment on Seafoam.

Is that a positive comment, or a negative comment? Or just an observation?

 

[Williy]

You take the cap off the seafoam can fill with
seafoam then pour in oil. I don't measure it.
It works for me!

willy

 

[grantiago]

Mine occasionally clogs even running carefully mixed 50:1

It will prematurely clog the spark arrester on a Stihl leaf blower.

Starting a Stihl leaf blower will eventually clog the Spark arrester.

 

[two_bit_score]

You take the cap off the seafoam can fill with
seafoam then pour in oil. I don't measure it.
It works for me!

willy

Are you using the cap off a gallon can or one of the 16oz cans. They are different sizes.

 

[Williy]

The seafoam cap

willy

 

[murphy1244]

That's less than a glug for sure.

I use 1 glug for every gallon of gas for maintenance

 

[5030]

Starting a Stihl leaf blower will eventually clog the Spark arrester.

You are supposed to clean the spark arrestor regularly. Wire brush and a 30 second job.

 

[Robin Veerman]

…or forget to put it back in

 

[5030]

I suggest you watch 'Taryl Fixes All fuel additive video. Sea Foam ain't worth a crap. Very interesting YT viedo. Startron is even worse.

 

[mx842]

You are supposed to clean the spark arrestor regularly. Wire brush and a 30 second job.

That's funny, I had a stihl 044 and a 051. The 051 that I bought in the 70's and the 044 I bought mid 80's and all both of them ate was reg. pump gas and the stihl brand oil and neither one of them ever had the screen cleaned. The only thing I ever did to them was to keep the air filter clean, change a spark plug every year or so, and of course replaced chains and bars when needed, a oil cap or two and a few other related parts that normally wear out in the chain an bar area. Both would be still running if it hadn't been for the fire that burned my building down. Oh and I always mixed my gas 40:1 or i of their bottles of oil to 2 gallons of gas. Both of them preformed as good as they did when they were new.

 

[mx842]

I suggest you watch 'Taryl Fixes All fuel additive video. Sea Foam ain't worth a crap. Very interesting YT viedo. Startron is even worse.

He he he..............

 

[5030]

In his test, the ONLY one that worked was VP syn fuel and he used new engines provided by Ariens so all the engines were new and not run. Everything else, the bowls were loaded with gunk on ethanol fuel. Very good test. Seafoam was the worst btw, Startron was second. The Marine Stabil started but still had some gunk in the bowl.

I'll stick with Trufuel for my ocasional use power equipment like chain saws and weed trimmers. It ain't cheap but neither is a new carb.

One thing about Taryl is, other than his wacky humor, he's always right. I subscribe to his YT channel and have for a long time.

Most wouldn't even start at all after a year sitting.

Was amazing how much crap was in the bowls. Gunk and rust from the water in the e-gas.

Obvious to me that Startron and Seafoam is nothing but junk.

 

[5030]

because of its high viscosity. It is kind of expensive but for how fast it worked i

Sure seems like pee water to me.......

 

[Lumberdink]

This was a pretty timely post for me. I just picked up a bottle of Seafoam and I put a glug in all of my 2 and 4 stroke engines---dirtbike, chain saws (3), leaf blower, brush cutter, rototiller, splitter, pressure washer and my Kubota. I was having all kinds of trouble a few years back with the Kohler engine on my splitter. I had been in touch with Kohler several times and the tech recommended Seafoam. That engine puked after about a year and they covered it under warranty. About another year later, the replacement engine took a crap and was out of warranty by then (2 engines in a little over 2 years), so I just picked up a Predator at HF and it's been pretty flawless, especially compared to the Kohlers. I hadn't started the Predator in 4 months but it's that time again and this week I went out and gave that Predator a tug and she kicked off on the 1st pull. I'm running 90 octane non-ethanol with a splash of seafoam. To get away from the ethanol issues, I was running avgas 100, but I wondered if the lead wasn't causing some issues. When the 1st Kohler crapped out, a valve stuck. The 90 octane non-ethanol is a lot cheaper and I probably don't need the lead in these engines that weren't designed to run it. Kohler didn't think it was an issue in the 1st engine's failure but who knows…

 

[5030]

I have a Kohler 241 on my gas welder and it's 40 years old and runs flawlessly.

 

[Lumberdink]

I'm guessing your Kohler wasn't made in China. We had a Kohler on an old Simplicity L & G tractor and it sure mowed a lot of grass and blew a lot of snow. I had these engines on Craigslist for 40 bucks, just hoping someone wanted a project but no takers.

 

[5030]

Wisconsin for mine. 100% domestic.

 

[Lumberdink]

Wisconsin for mine. 100% domestic.

Those were the days. Sigh…

 

[mike5511]

I suggest you watch 'Taryl Fixes All fuel additive video. Sea Foam ain't worth a crap. Very interesting YT viedo. Startron is even worse.

I’ve seen it. My experience, nor thousands of others, doesn’t necessarily correlate with his results. But, I don’t use SeaFoam as a stabilizer either, so his little experiment doesn’t really apply to the other things SeaFoam does.