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brucepick · 11-03-2012, 11:13 PM

I can believe that.

I Seafoamed my Civic at least twice, maybe 3x, before taking the head off for a valve job. Plus I had a shop do a similar treatment with a setup much like an I-V drip going into an intake vacuum hose.

When I saw the piston tops they had a hard thick carbon coating. None of the cleaners had done anything to remove it; I had to use a small power brush.

Marvel Mystery Oil uses phosphates as the cleaner instead of solvents; hopefully by using that I'm preventing buildup now.

11-03-2012, 11:13 PM	#23 (permalink)
brucepick OCD Master EcoModder Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Eastern CT, USA Posts: 1,936 Outasight - '00 Honda Insight Team Honda Gen-1 Insights 90 day: 54.18 mpg (US) Thanks: 431 Thanked 396 Times in 264 Posts	I can believe that. I Seafoamed my Civic at least twice, maybe 3x, before taking the head off for a valve job. Plus I had a shop do a similar treatment with a setup much like an I-V drip going into an intake vacuum hose. When I saw the piston tops they had a hard thick carbon coating. None of the cleaners had done anything to remove it; I had to use a small power brush. Marvel Mystery Oil uses phosphates as the cleaner instead of solvents; hopefully by using that I'm preventing buildup now. __________________ Coast long and prosper. Driving '00 Honda Insight, acquired Feb 2016.