Wait till you run thru the tank with the seafoam in it, then run a couple of reular tanks thru her, if it was water you sould have cleared it by then. Then in the spring repeat the seafoam treatment, probally at youre next oil change.

I did say it smokes alot! lol! you can kill every mosquito in a 10 block radius this this stuff!

You should try it in your lawn mower and other gas powered tools etc!

you have to have a tank of that in a jug with a valve you can control in the car, and when you see some environmentalists picketing, open the valve. should get some good feedback on it! <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/nana.gif" alt="" />

Well, I finally got time to tear into this thing a while back.

It just so happened that when I had the chance to start there was quite a bit of gas in the tank, so I decided to start on the other end.

I knew the coils, wires, spark plugs and the valve cover gasket were all possible suspects. So I started taking that apart first before going for parts. (There is a bit much to do just to get down in there for a simple check in my opinion, but it's not terrible)

Anyways I was relieved to not discover any oil down in there. The coils and wires looked ok, which doesn't always say a lot. The white plastic connectors had seen better days though. The input wiring to the coils will need repair/replacement before too long.

Anyways, I removed the plugs and new right away they needed replacement badly. They were not oily or anything. But they did have a good amount of white crust, the gap was rather LARGE, and the insulators were discolored from the heat exposure.

I quickly became concerned though when I started removing the second plug. THIS IS ONE APPLICATION WHERE... TRUST ME...
YOU !!!!MUST!!!! USE ANTI-SIEZE COMPOUND. They were not real tight or stuck. But I did feel they were going to strip out the threads if I was not EXTREMELY CAREFUL.

In fact, a couple of them required that I run them in and out a few times to actually get them to come out. SCARY.

After getting them all out, I sat down and thought a while. I had quite a self-debate about what plugs to put back in it. On one hand, I wanted to go with something extremely long life like one of the Bosch Platinum's... and on the other hand I wanted to play it safer thread-wise by going back with the exact same NGK's that were in it.

In the end, I decided to go with the NGK's thinking it might be safer on the threading. I put anti-sieze on them and installed. One of them didn't end up "feeling" real well at the end. But all seems to have buttoned up OK.

I'm still undecided rather or not I made the right plug decision. I mean it worked out... but the NGK's will likely have to be replaced again sooner. I don't know what I should do next time.

In the end though, this cleared my issues right up 100%.
Luckily it was just the plugs left that needed attention.

yes you lucked out with the plugs, I bought my 2001 used and from a dealer, I went to do the plugs and <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/scared.gif" alt="" /> they had never been changed before <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/scared.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/scared.gif" alt="" /> first plug broke free and I said yes but then <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/scared.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/scared.gif" alt="" /> it froze then <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/scared.gif" alt="" /> again well I was able to get it to back down to seat, I said this will have to wait another day, some time did pass well months did, so then I was ready yep a helicoil kit, took it all back apart and said now or never. I went slow 1/8 of a turn then back 1/4 then forward then a 1/8 again over and over got it out, helicoiled it. the rest of the plugs came out like the should have. John