seafoam or amsoil foam?

[taylormanson]

Both are designed to clean intakes right? Is one clinically proven or ADA approved over the other one or something? There seems to be a great deal of controversy surrounding Sea Foam and if Amsoil does the same stuff just as well, should I go with that?

Any suggestions on one over the other?

 

[Rhett]

I used them both. The AMSOIL is a spray foam. The Seafoam is not a foam but a liquid. The Seafoam worked better for me than the AMSOIL PowerFoam did. I think it's not so much the stuff (they are quite similar) as it is the delivery method. With the AMSOIL PowerFoam you have to spray it. I don't think I did a good job of spraying it in there. The Seafoam, on the other hand, is a liquid and it gets sucked in thru a vac tube. I think it dispersed better because of this. Anyway, the Seafoam worked better for me. I still use my AMSOIL PowerFoam as a degreaser. It works great for that.

My advice would be don't use either unless you have carbon problems.

 

[taylormanson]

Well, I am about to turn 108k on my 95 Ex Sport. I just had my injectors cleaned and blew a crapload of carbon and other junk through the exhaust after that, so I'm assuming my entire intake may have deposits.

 

[Rhett]

Is your truck pinging? If it's not, I wouldn't even mess with PowerFoam or Seafoam.

Look at the other threads here about Seafoam...

 

[taylormanson]

I'm not sure exactly how to diagnose if my engine is pinging or not. If it actually makes a "ping" sound occasionally, then no...it's not doing that. However when idling in park and drive (say at a stop light) I notice the occasional jerk with the engine where it shakes my car slightly enough for me to notice.

 

[dmasini]

taylormanson, sounds like you just have a low idle. You would know if you had a pinging. Mine pings and it sounds like I have a diesel engine. Sea Foam to the rescue... hopefully.