anyone ever heard of "Autoguard Gas Treatment"

[bubbagumper6]

It's one of those gas treatments that you dump into your tank and it cleans your carburetors, intake valves, and manifolds...but I bought it at the dollar store :naughty:

just wondering if anyone has ever used Autoguard before...not sure if I wanna risk dumping it into my tank...lol

[Bloodstalker999]

lawl I bought exactly the same thing and put it in my car and it didn't blow up and I didn't notice a difference in fuel economy. Seeing as we have the same car you probably will have similar effects.

At first I didn't trust the dollar store but I figured if my car blew up then I would just sue their asses off.

[Rich B]

Try some good stuff like Seafoam.

About $8 at NAPA, but it wont be a waste of money.

[bubbagumper6]

well does the good **** do anything either?

[LoudCrownVic]

Yeah it does, seafoam will take a stubborn carbon fouled spark plug in my motor cycle and make it shine like a new dime. It plows carbon buildup away pretty good.

THe cheap stuff is not a good idea to play with. I'd use it to clean grease off of small bolts rather than put it in your tank.

[Silver]

seafoam is alright.

I'd just use gasoline.

[DDSC]

I put seafoam in my motorcycle and after 5 minutes of idleing you could hear the diffrence in the idle and I noticed more rapid throttle respones, its only 7 dollars at meijer

[bigbirney420]

For the Car the Lucas upper cylinder stuff works really well, and the Chevron with techron. i wouldnt use much else

[RipDaJacka]

Seafoam is great stuff.. My injectors or something were clogged in my old explorer and it was lagging pretty bad.. SO I changed the oil and dropped in the Seafoam and i came back to life within a day or so

[vvblazers777]

Always used sea-foam also. I just run it through for a few hundred miles before changing the oil. I went from Sea foaming, then from oil to synthetic oil, and noticed about 2mpg increase. You can deff. tell the car idles better.

[bubbagumper6]

my car idles pretty hard...I just used seafoam in the gas tank and didn't do much. It says that if you feed it right into the fuel injectors it helps rough idle...how would I do this? And I just recently changed my oil (like 3 weeks ago) should I drop a can of seafoam in with the oil too?

[LoudCrownVic]

I put seafoam in my motorcycle and after 5 minutes of idleing you could hear the diffrence in the idle and I noticed more rapid throttle respones, its only 7 dollars at meijer

I have been to that Meijer (or at least A Meijer) in Ann Arbor.

Woo! Small world.

[vvblazers777]

my car idles pretty hard...I just used seafoam in the gas tank and didn't do much. It says that if you feed it right into the fuel injectors it helps rough idle...how would I do this? And I just recently changed my oil (like 3 weeks ago) should I drop a can of seafoam in with the oil too?


You know you have to drive a few hundred miles and run it though right?

[LoudCrownVic]

my car idles pretty hard...I just used seafoam in the gas tank and didn't do much. It says that if you feed it right into the fuel injectors it helps rough idle...how would I do this? And I just recently changed my oil (like 3 weeks ago) should I drop a can of seafoam in with the oil too?

You can feed it in through the brake booster line which on most evey model of car ive seen of late evenly feeds all cylinders- find your brake booster and there should be a hose that comes out of and goes to your intake manifold ... I use a cap from a gear oil bottle and stick it in the end of the hose and then use that as kind of a funnel to slowly pour the seafom in the engine. This does not get it to the injectors however.

The only way i know to get it to the injectors is through the ole gas tank. Well, there are ways... But I doubt it's worth the effort.

I would have to say that Seafoam is not a cure all in a can. Yor plugs might be bad, your wires might be bad, you could have a vaccuum line issue... Look for mechanical problems. Look at your mainenence schedule.

Would NOT suggest putting seafoam in the oil until you are JUST ABOUT to change it again (this cleans out your engine quite well)... It would be a pretty strong thinning/viscosity breakdown agent. It could cause engine damage if it makes the oil too thin.

[vvblazers777]

You can feed it in through the brake booster line which on most evey model of car ive seen of late evenly feeds all cylinders- find your brake booster and there should be a hose that comes out of and goes to your intake manifold ... I use a cap from a gear oil bottle and stick it in the end of the hose and then use that as kind of a funnel to slowly pour the seafom in the engine. This does not get it to the injectors however.

The only way i know to get it to the injectors is through the ole gas tank. Well, there are ways... But I doubt it's worth the effort.

I would have to say that Seafoam is not a cure all in a can. Yor plugs might be bad, your wires might be bad, you could have a vaccuum line issue... Look for mechanical problems. Look at your mainenence schedule.

Would NOT suggest putting seafoam in the oil until you are JUST ABOUT to change it again (this cleans out your engine quite well)... It would be a pretty strong thinning/viscosity breakdown agent. It could cause engine damage if it makes the oil too thin.


Everything this guy said is correct. This stuff works miracles. Cures gas bad gas mileage, and cleans out the engine. However, it may take more then a bottle. (Not at once.) Your plugs get dirty, they will need to be changed, or this stuff will make them look like new. Your pistons have corrosion on the top of them, this stuff will take them off. Like he said, do not go a full 2k miles with this stuff in your oil. I've always ran it through peoples oil around 150 miles before changing. Enough for it to circulate everywhere and clear everything up. Let us know how it works.

[Silver]

Just a heads up, I'd be careful and research on your injectors to see if they can handle cleaning or not. I did my bird again with seafoam but I cut the fuel supply off and just ran it through the schrader valve on my fuel injection system., It caused one to go bad, BE CAREFUL.

[Ferendon]

Seafoam and most any other fuel additive worth a **** will cause dependency in the internals of the engine, and injector seals. Just like Armor All on a dash. It adds moisture, which eventually evaporates, and takes the original moisture with it. They're all good as long as you keep using them or you'll end up with ****ed up valve stem seals, injector seals, and possibly soft walls in the engine. They clean metal by saturating it, absorbing the gunk, and then evaporating with it. Some softer metals will pit internally, which weakens the structure. Best bet is a good top end cleaner. It's smoky, nasty, and expensive, but it works better than anything else, and has the fewest negative side effects. Top end cleaner is sprayed into the air intake system while revving the engine. It's more of a cleaning cycle, rather than a passive cleaning. Not to mention, alot of gunk will build up in your intake manifold, that will pass down into the other parts of the engine that you just "cleaned", and gunk them up all over again. Top end cleaner cleans out the intake manifold as well, so that this doesn't happen.