[s-cars] Still on 4 cylinders, some background.

[Ingo Rautenberg]

Yeah, used to do that in the day when we had carbureted engines (gasp).
Just trickle a little water into the carb at elevated rpm and watch the soot
fly out the tailpipes en masse :-)

Ingo


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David" <duandcc_forums at cox.net>
To: "Dan DiBiase" <d_dibiase at yahoo.com>; <brett at cloud9.net>; "Ingo
Rautenberg" <i.rautenberg at waratap.com>
Cc: <quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 9:51 AM
Subject: Re: Re: [s-cars] Still on 4 cylinders, some background.


> The best valve cleaner int he world is 100% free...water! Well, steam.
Ever noticed how if you have a HG leak on 1 cylinder, that cylinder and it's
pistons & valves are PERFECTLY clean? So, jsut stem the whole engine. Start
car & warm up. Rev to at least 3,000 RPM and pull a SMALL intake vacuum line
from whatever device is non-critical (I used the one that goes to the
charcoal canister). Shove hose into a bottle of water and watch all the
built up crap come pouring out the exhaust. If you have a cat...disconenct
it...it WILL get clogged.
>
> Dave
> 1987 CGT 2.3
> SE VA
> >
> > From: Dan DiBiase <d_dibiase at yahoo.com>
> > Date: 2005/12/22 Thu PM 06:00:44 EST
> > To: brett at cloud9.net,  Ingo Rautenberg <i.rautenberg at waratap.com>
> > CC: quattro at audifans.com
> > Subject: Re: [s-cars] Still on 4 cylinders, some background.
> >
> > Brett Dikeman <quattro at frank.mercea.net> wrote:
> > On Dec 20, 2005, at 10:56 AM, Ingo Rautenberg wrote:
> >
> > > Ooh -- likey your theory there, Bob!  May I suggest a Treatment of
> > > SeaFoam to remove any gunk in the lifters (maybe with a dose of
> > > dino oil) for a few hundred miles (up to five hundred) and then an
> > > oil and filter change.  Sure beats having to do a motor swap in his
> > > weather ;-)
> >
> > I googled around on SeaFoam, and came across a Jeep owner's forum.
> >
> > Conclusion: in the intake, helps remove carbon deposits (similar to
> > MOPAR's combustion chamber cleaner.)  In the crankcase, helps clean
> > up sludge and such, but one guy with a leaking rear main seal had a
> > dramatic failure of the seal days after the treatment.  Reasonable
> > conclusion by those in the forum was that the seal was being held
> > together on a thread by deposits (varnish/carbon/whatever) or that
> > the SeaFoam weakened the rubber.  Either way, some advised against
> > putting the stuff in the crankcase.
> >
> > If the engine has been run on Mobil1 for any period of time,
> > internals should be nice and clean.
> >
> > Seems a little suspicious that a cylinder with a bad lifter would ace
> > a compression test...?  I've also never heard of lifter 'failure',
> > just them getting noisy on the 10v's.
> >
> > Us British Car guys use it in the gas tank - one can for about 8
gallons, then drive the car for a while. Seems to clean out gunk in the
intake system pretty well. Hadn't really heard about putting it in the
crankcase, though....
> >
> >     Dan D
> >     '04 A4 1.8Tq MT-6
> >     '76 MGB Tourer
> >     '65 MGB Tourer
> >     Central NJ USA
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>
>


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