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Today was SeaFoam day..

..and I'm lucky no one saw the smoke and decided to call the fire department.

Bought two cans of SeaFoam and one can of SeaFoam Deep Creep. Split them up between the three running cars.. my '89 LSC w/ 91k miles, my mother's '98 ZX2 with 90k miles, and soon-to-be-my-aunt's '86 T-bird w/ 168k miles. All perfect candidates. I've used SeaFoam on both Fox bodies before, but I don't think I ever did it quite right until today. (soak up at least half a can through a vacuum line and then saturate it until it stalls at operating temperature, then let it sit for awhile and run it again.. although no vac line was convenient on the ZX2, so I sprayed through the TB and then dumped a bunch of it in at once)

All three cars seem to have improved somewhat. The T-bird's idle picked up a little bit.. the Mark is running a little smoother.. and the ZX2 idles quieter now. All three of them blew so much smoke, each car's cloud hit the edge of the lot from the middle of it at closest to the other side at furthest. SeaFoam for teh win!

Tossed in an amusing little pic (two diff. pics cut and pasted together into one image, anyway) of the two sprays of black oily  that came out the tailpipe of the T-bird when it was its turn. I say two because I relocated it a bit further forward in the yard after awhile, because its smoke was making the other two cars look like they had caught fire. :D

Oh yeah.. since I used the freshly-installed vacuum tee I put in when I installed my vac/boost gauge on the '89, I decided not to risk having any SeaFoam creep back to the gauge or to the cruise servo, depending on which hose got left on the tee. I unplugged both, put my long feeder line on one to suck SeaFoam right out of the can, and on the other I put a s of line and an old rusty license plate screw from the front mount. Where the SeaFoam contacted it that whole time, (because some of the SeaFoam did take a detour and end up stuck in that s of vac line) it completely removed the surface rust. It's funny, part of the screw looks brand new. :wtf: