houstonbofh
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OK. Let me clarify a few things...
1) A bike run a few times a week, with at least a tank of gas each week needs no fuel additives. Actually, in the US all fuel is required to have a set amount of detergent, and it works quire well for normal use. Running your bike often is the best maintenance. Also, anything in your fuel that is not fuel is wasting energy and robing you of power and economy.
2) Bikes that set up will gunk up. Ethanol fuels gunk up faster. If that gunk is bad enough, normal fuel use may not clean it out. This means a additive or a rebuild. I have done both, and trying an additive is fast and easy.
3) Detergents and solvents are not the same thing, and do not work the same way. From personal experience, solvents work better with gunk build up from sitting, and detergents work better with baked on gunk like carbonization.
4) SeaFoam has 3 uses. a) Fuel additive - This can stabilize fuel a bot (no where near as good as Sta-Bil Marine) and will clean out carb bowls, sticky needles, and partially clogged jets. b) A Decarbonizer - There are the smoke screen YouTube videos. You pour it in the intake until the motor stalls. It sits wet in the intake and on the intake valves breaking up the carbon. In a car with 4000,000 miles that was not passing emissions due to high Nox, it brought it down about 300 points. It is also likely to seep into the cylinders and wash the ring surfaces. Long term this is bad. Once every 200k miles or so, not so much. c) An Oil Change Additive - Add to oil and run for a few minutes to break up the gunk. I think this is BS. First, if you change your oil on time (and I do) you do not have gunk build up. Second, I do not want anything thinning out the oil surface on my bearings. They are not easy to replace...
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