Cleaning your vehicle’s fuel system is an easy, essential — but often neglected — part of routine maintenance. For your engine to run strong, fuel needs to be pumped from the tank, through fuel filters and lines, and sprayed precisely through fuel injectors, into your engine’s combustion chambers. Any imbalance in your engine’s fuel/air mixture…
A clean fuel system is essential for any internal combustion engine to run properly. Gasoline degrades over time, becoming unstable, less volatile and leaving behind sticky varnish deposits. Those deposits can clog passageways — tiny jets in carburetors or fuel injectors in modern vehicles. Fuel problems will show up most frequently in vehicles and equipment…
Our customers frequently reach out to our experts with questions about how often they should add Sea Foam Motor Treatment to their fuel tank. The first thing you should know is that fuel degrades quickly. Each day that unused fuel sits in your engine means more evaporation of ignition vapors and development of harmful deposits….
Is your automatic transmission shifting rough or erratically? Transmissions are complex and fixing problems can be costly, but before you head to a shop, try a can of Sea Foam Trans Tune. Like gasoline, transmission fluid begins to form a sticky varnish as it ages. This varnish can gum up your transmission’s valve bodies, solenoids…
Motor oil is, hands down, the most important fluid in your vehicle’s engine. Oil provides essential lubrication for your engine’s many moving parts, preventing damage from friction and heat. But over time, oil becomes contaminated from dirt, dust and combustion by-products, such as carbon and acidic gasses. The oil itself also goes through chemical changes…
Routine maintenance is the key to avoiding costly engine repairs. This is true of all internal combustion engines, from the one in your car to the one in your lawn mower. Four-stroke or two-stroke, gasoline or diesel, all engines are precision made with many moving parts that have to work in harmony for proper operation. …
Oftentimes, seemingly big engine problems can be traced to small sources. What might seem like a complex, costly fix might actually be pretty simple and affordable. In the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, car engines took a huge leap forward with the addition of a computer system. This modernization meant that engines could run much…
Owning a gas-powered vehicle comes with a wide range of ongoing expenses, none more persistent than filling up at the pump. And while you can’t control gas prices, you can make sure you’re doing all you can to get the best fuel economy possible. It’s common for gas mileage to fall from factory specs as…
