Sea Foam In tank for cleaning injectors?

[Angry7M]

I head in another forum that some guy poured a bottle of Sea Foam into his tank with about a gallon a gas, and he said it did work cleaning his injectors. I was wondering if there are any Cons to doing this? Because most of the fuel injector cleaner additive recommend that you fill up your gas tank. So what I basically want to do is pour a bottle of seam foam in my tank, my fuel tank is at the 1/4 mark on the gauge. So what do you guys think? No smart asses.....:evil2:

Im getting Code 25 (running Lean) BTW, and ive never cleaned the injectors.

 

[supradjza80]

If you read the seafoam bottle it tells you how much gas one can of seafoam should be mixed with. I have done this many times and have had no problems with it. Although I dont think running more concentrated seafoam hurts anything.

 

[jdub]

Seafoam is essentially solvent...not a very effective cleaner when mixed with gasoline. Honestly, it's crap...save your $$$.
Here's the MDS showing what's in it:

http://www.seafoamsales.com/pdf/MSDS_SFTT_US.pdf

Those products containing Polyether Amine (PEA) are effective though. Read this post:
(I like GumOut Regane)

http://www.supramania.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1011058&postcount=5

Or you can run Chervon gas...Techron (PEA) is in their gas

 

[Rennat]

JDUB - what about the redline injector cleaner? is that any better than the seafoam stuff?

 

[Angry7M]

Ok so ill fill up at Chevron with gas and ill just take it to a shop tomorrow to get them cleaned. Thanks for your responses guys.

 

[thunder_nick]

I havent found the sea foam doing really much of anything in the gas tank.. I have used it in a few of my other vehicles down the vacuum lines and that worked wonders.. didn't believe how well it worked on the jimmy but then we put the 1/4down the gas tank like it said afterwards did nothing tried a whole bottle still nothing.. the vacuum lines work great dont know if that would fix ur prob or not but hey

 

[jdub]

JDUB - what about the redline injector cleaner? is that any better than the seafoam stuff?

Red Line contains PEA...slightly more than the GumOut I mentioned. It's also more expensive

I havent found the sea foam doing really much of anything in the gas tank.. I have used it in a few of my other vehicles down the vacuum lines and that worked wonders.. didn't believe how well it worked on the jimmy but then we put the 1/4down the gas tank like it said afterwards did nothing tried a whole bottle still nothing.. the vacuum lines work great dont know if that would fix ur prob or not but hey

Using water and a needle valve T'ed to a vacuum line will work just as well
Does a nice job cleaning carbon out of combustion chambers...ever seen how the cylinder with a BHG looks clean?