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professor95
May 31, 2009Explorer
Seafoam is a great product. I have used it for years in my Evinrude 2-stroke outboard motor.
I have recently started using two other products that are giving me excellent results. The B-12 is used like Seafoam. It has the same ingredients and the cost is about 1/2 that of Seafoam.
The other is Blaster LMT. Awsome product!!! I sprayed it into the 3 cylinders on my Evinrude this spring as directed. When I started the motor the amount of black goo and crud running out the exhaust was unexpected. It really cleaned out the residue.
I used it last night on my Honda WX-10 water pump engine. It is time to drain and clean the pool (done!) It really made a difference in how the engine ran after the treatment.
Seafoam, B-12 and Blaster LMT are all good products for keeping the internal parts of your Chinese 3000 watt class generator clean. Of course, the LMT is only good as a top engine cleaner as it does not run through the carburetor jets. But, it cleans the top of the engine fast and pretty darn good.
I do not have a light scope but do have a small pinhole CCD camera I have modified so I can poke it inside a spark plug hole. The camera when used with a fiber optic light help me to see what is inside a cylinder.
As some may know I have been using water/alcohol (-22 windshield washer fluid) injection on the 454 gas engine for over a year now. It allows me to run the Hypertech power program on regular 87 octane gas. I can promise you there is not a cleaner set of cylinders on a gas engine anywhere - unless it is new. The water has removed all carbon and EGR residue. An old trick is to remove the air filter on a small engine and spray water into the intake while the engine is running - just enough to prevent stalling. The water will break loose any carbon. It does take numerous sprays over a period of 10-15 minutes to get results. Be careful - too much water can cause engine damage. Water does not compress like the A/F mixture!
Generally, the spark plug tells the story. Learn how to "read" a plug by its color. It can tell you the state of the engine very quickly. Unfortunately, with 100,000 miles bewtween plug changes this is becoming a forgotten skill.
I have recently started using two other products that are giving me excellent results. The B-12 is used like Seafoam. It has the same ingredients and the cost is about 1/2 that of Seafoam.
The other is Blaster LMT. Awsome product!!! I sprayed it into the 3 cylinders on my Evinrude this spring as directed. When I started the motor the amount of black goo and crud running out the exhaust was unexpected. It really cleaned out the residue.
I used it last night on my Honda WX-10 water pump engine. It is time to drain and clean the pool (done!) It really made a difference in how the engine ran after the treatment.
Seafoam, B-12 and Blaster LMT are all good products for keeping the internal parts of your Chinese 3000 watt class generator clean. Of course, the LMT is only good as a top engine cleaner as it does not run through the carburetor jets. But, it cleans the top of the engine fast and pretty darn good.
I do not have a light scope but do have a small pinhole CCD camera I have modified so I can poke it inside a spark plug hole. The camera when used with a fiber optic light help me to see what is inside a cylinder.
As some may know I have been using water/alcohol (-22 windshield washer fluid) injection on the 454 gas engine for over a year now. It allows me to run the Hypertech power program on regular 87 octane gas. I can promise you there is not a cleaner set of cylinders on a gas engine anywhere - unless it is new. The water has removed all carbon and EGR residue. An old trick is to remove the air filter on a small engine and spray water into the intake while the engine is running - just enough to prevent stalling. The water will break loose any carbon. It does take numerous sprays over a period of 10-15 minutes to get results. Be careful - too much water can cause engine damage. Water does not compress like the A/F mixture!
Generally, the spark plug tells the story. Learn how to "read" a plug by its color. It can tell you the state of the engine very quickly. Unfortunately, with 100,000 miles bewtween plug changes this is becoming a forgotten skill.
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