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….
Poorly stored fuel is the top cause of a hard-starting or non-starting snowblower. This is true of all seasonal equipment, but fuel storage for snowblowers is especially important because even during the winter months, your fuel can sit for weeks or longer, depending on the weather. Most snowblower engines are simple. They are typically a…
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. …
Fall is a busy time of year for power equipment. Mowers, weed trimmers, leaf blowers, chainsaws and other small-engine machinery are in heavy service, sometimes right up until the first snowflakes fly. But when the grass stops growing and every last leaf has fallen, yard equipment needs to be made ready for winter storage —…
The temperature is falling, the leaves are dropping and soon, it will be time to pull your snowmobile out of storage and hit the trails. But before that happens, you’ll want to make sure your sled is ready to ride. Nothing will suck the joy out of bombing fresh drifts more than a broken machine,…
