Sea Foam. Now I'm a believer
Hope this is an acceptable topic for Tech issues. I have read on these forums for years about the praise others have bestowed on Sea Foam gasoline additive. I never tried it until recently in my Ho...
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I hear you, not sure how it's formulated and actually don't care, Seafoam just works for us. The Onan on our rig has been heavily used for 10 years under some of the most demanding situations one can encounter while RVing and it has never missed a beat in over 1K hours.
We use the cheapest, ethanol-laced gas we can find as we do with any of our gasoline powered machines, and have never had any fuel delivery or carburation issues apparently so prominent with Onans. Just use some Stabil when adding gas to the genny, and a bottle of Seafoam couple of times a year and the Onan just keeps purring along happily.
Although I have purchased a couple of fuel filters for the Onan, it still contains the factory fuel filters installed over a decade ago. Even with old stale gas, 85 or 86 octane depending on where we purchase it, has not given birth to any issues as some have indicated. Just change the oil annually and air filter every 3-4 years if that, spark plug has been replaced once although I kept the old one as there was absolutely nothing wrong with it.
I've had the same experience using Seafoam in all our gasoline powered equipment from our 2 Honda atvs that we purchased a dozen years back and have never been back to the dealer for service, to our lawnmowers, portable generators, and of course our various automobiles, some with over 150K miles and have never had fuel injector service performed. Whatever the concoction, this stuff, at least for us, has been nothing short of magic in a bottle.
We use the cheapest, ethanol-laced gas we can find as we do with any of our gasoline powered machines, and have never had any fuel delivery or carburation issues apparently so prominent with Onans. Just use some Stabil when adding gas to the genny, and a bottle of Seafoam couple of times a year and the Onan just keeps purring along happily.
Although I have purchased a couple of fuel filters for the Onan, it still contains the factory fuel filters installed over a decade ago. Even with old stale gas, 85 or 86 octane depending on where we purchase it, has not given birth to any issues as some have indicated. Just change the oil annually and air filter every 3-4 years if that, spark plug has been replaced once although I kept the old one as there was absolutely nothing wrong with it.
I've had the same experience using Seafoam in all our gasoline powered equipment from our 2 Honda atvs that we purchased a dozen years back and have never been back to the dealer for service, to our lawnmowers, portable generators, and of course our various automobiles, some with over 150K miles and have never had fuel injector service performed. Whatever the concoction, this stuff, at least for us, has been nothing short of magic in a bottle.
