Water in the motor

[Vinniety]

I found this artice when i was searching....Can this be true. I thought water in the motor is the worst thing possible.........


Here is what it said.........

I have a '92 Explorer 4Dr., 4WD with 164,000 miles on the clock. It looks and drives like new. I do most of my own maintenance. I purchased my Explorer almost 3 years ago from the original owner who had the vehicle dealer maintained since it was new. There was one problem that I experienced from the time that I purchased it that was beginning to drive me nuts. PING!!!! I tried all the solutions mentioned on this page with limited results until I tried the following which completely cured my problem!!!

In my case it would appear that the ping was the result of carbon buildup in the combustion chambers. After trying everything mentioned on this page I narrowed it down to the carbon problem. Here's my fix.

On the left rear corner of the intake manifold is a vacuum port cluster, one of the ports has a simple rubber plug covering it. Remove the plug and attach a 4 foot length of vacuum hose to it of the proper diameter. Fill a 16 ounce soda bottle with warm water. Find a friend to sit in the vehicle. Start the engine and have your friend raise the RPMs to approx. 1200. Now take the end of the vacuum hose and put it in the warm water in the bottle. Feed the engine a little at a time over a 5 minute period. Be careful not to give it to much water for to long so as to stall the engine, you can give it to much of a good thing. Take your time and try to maintain a small cloud of steam coming out of the tail pipe. When the engine starts to idle roughly pull the hose out of the water and let the engine smooth out a bit, add more water through the vacuum hose after it's running smoothly again. Continue this process until you've sucked all the water out of the bottle. Let the engine idle for 5 minutes after this process. While you're waiting you can unhook the hose you connected, replace the plug (don't forget to do this). Now go drive your Explorer and notice the difference. You may need to go through this process twice, I did for best results. In my case my Explorer was so bad before I did this that I needed to run Premium in it all the time and still had a problem with ping. With regular it would ping constantly. Now I can burn the cheapest regular around without ever the slightest hint of ping. The steam cleans the inside of all the combustion chambers and removes the carbon without pulling the heads.

I know this sounds to easy but it works GREAT!!!!

[gijoecam]

Common fix for older motors... it basically steam cleans the combustion chambers. I'm not a fan of that method myself. In the end, it accomplishes the sem thing as SeaFoam or Motorcraft Decarbonizing fluid... it removes carbon deposits from the combustion chamber, minimizing knock.

-Joe