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Old 11-19-2010, 10:46 AM
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can i spray carb cleaner in my spark plug holes or is this a bad idea
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can i spray carb cleaner in my spark plug holes or is this a bad idea
Why? if your cylinder's rings are bad you'll have carb cleaner oozing into your oil before you can get the plugs back in and hooked up (it might just get vented out but still.. I wouldn't want that for mine). Why not just run some sort of cleaner through your tank or brake booster vacuum?
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agreed, not necessary or desirable.
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thanks guys
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run a can of seafoam thru it
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thats what i plan on
now is it safe to spray your throttle body with carb cleaner
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only if it is safe for oxygen sensors and catalytic convertors.
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well lol i put a bottle of seafoam in the gas tank
half a bottle in the oil
and half a bottle in threw the brake booster
and i also cleaned out the throttle body with some deep creep
god!!
i had soooo much smoke it was ridiculous i wish i would have video taped
i think yall would have thought it was a loooooooooot of smoke too
well since i have done this everything seems alryte now
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seafoam-smoke = carbon dying = happy engine
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is it ok to seafoam your car twice like one after another
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also is there any possible way to clean spark plugs
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