Fuel Additive to Clean Valves, Etc.?
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Fuel Additive to Clean Valves, Etc.?
I would like to add some and ride it around a little before I put the 73 FLH away for the winter. I have read good and bad about Sea Foam. Any other recommendations. I may be having a valve problem and want to try this first before taking it apart next spring. Thanks.
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Sea Foam will blow a lot of it off the pistons and combustion chamber.
Nothing we know of will peel it off the valves, shy of dissassembly and media blast.
Scott
Nothing we know of will peel it off the valves, shy of dissassembly and media blast.
Scott
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HILLSIDE MOTORCYCLE & MACHINE, INC.
HARLEY-DAVIDSON SPEED & SERVICE CENTER
5225 SOUTH MAIN ST., MUNNSVILLE, N.Y. 13409
Sales/Support 315-495-6650
www.hillsidecycle.com
Walk-in Retail Showroom
Complete H-D Machine Shop
Case & cylinder boring
Complete Cylinder Head Shop
High-Performance Engine Kits
Crank Rebuilding
Direct Link & PowerVision Tuning
Goodson HD Tooling Manufacturer
Maxton Mile World Record
4500 sq ft. facility
OVER 35 YEARS OF H-D ENGINE BUILDING.
See us on Facebook.
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Chevrons " Techron " (concentrated version!) does even a batter job then seafoam at cleaning carbon & or deposits from todays pump fuel off the backside of intake valves along with also removing some lvl of carbon off tops of pistons & combustion chambers in general along with cleaning injectors and or carb in the process too.
A good effective dose of techron (Concentrated version) to run for a good cleanup is 1.5 oz per gal of fuel thru 1 tank of fuel for a std cleanup maint 1x-2x yrly depending on miles driven.
But for a motor with suspected excess carbon buildup in intake valves & in comb chambers along with possible dirty injectors & or carb i'd run 2 tanks in a row back to back at the 1.5oz per gal dose rate.
I have had techrons concentrated version really come thru for me over the yrs cleaning injectors.carbs along with removing the jelly like blk sticky gunk that builds up on the backside of intake valves from todays pump fuel , from worn guides or worn v-seals or too much carryover from crankcase vent into intake system along with also removing x-amount of carbon from combustion chambers in general too.
The Techron taking care of that would take motors from running not that well idling kinda rough with lackluster throttle response and poor fuel mileage to running & idling smooth as a kitten regaining crisp/sharper throttle response while also improving/increasing fuel mileage 1.5-2mpg too 2.5-3mpg in a real dirty case thats not ever had (or not in a long time) a good cleanup with a strong robust solvent cleaner like chevron's Techron " " concentrated version " delivers.
BTW,i feel seafaom is a decent cleaner too but found it to be not quite as effective as the techron in " concentrated version " & use seafoam mostly as a maint cleaner only when a stronger cleanup with concentrated Techron has already been done prior on the bike or car i am working on.
Happy motoring!
Scott
A good effective dose of techron (Concentrated version) to run for a good cleanup is 1.5 oz per gal of fuel thru 1 tank of fuel for a std cleanup maint 1x-2x yrly depending on miles driven.
But for a motor with suspected excess carbon buildup in intake valves & in comb chambers along with possible dirty injectors & or carb i'd run 2 tanks in a row back to back at the 1.5oz per gal dose rate.
I have had techrons concentrated version really come thru for me over the yrs cleaning injectors.carbs along with removing the jelly like blk sticky gunk that builds up on the backside of intake valves from todays pump fuel , from worn guides or worn v-seals or too much carryover from crankcase vent into intake system along with also removing x-amount of carbon from combustion chambers in general too.
The Techron taking care of that would take motors from running not that well idling kinda rough with lackluster throttle response and poor fuel mileage to running & idling smooth as a kitten regaining crisp/sharper throttle response while also improving/increasing fuel mileage 1.5-2mpg too 2.5-3mpg in a real dirty case thats not ever had (or not in a long time) a good cleanup with a strong robust solvent cleaner like chevron's Techron " " concentrated version " delivers.
BTW,i feel seafaom is a decent cleaner too but found it to be not quite as effective as the techron in " concentrated version " & use seafoam mostly as a maint cleaner only when a stronger cleanup with concentrated Techron has already been done prior on the bike or car i am working on.
Happy motoring!
Scott
Last edited by wscott; 11-23-2015 at 10:23 PM.
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