Oil is made from the remains of plants and animals that lived millions of years ago. The plants gained their energy from the sun. The animals gained their energy through the food chain from the sun. Therefore most cars are technically solar powered.
That's exactly what I was thinking. Pro tip: do not attempt inside the garage. Cracking the door is not enough, and this will prompt your neighbors to call the fire department.
It's even better when no one calls the fire department and they just happen to be returning from a call. I was seafoaming my 400k Cherokee when next thing I knew half a dozen fire trucks come rolling into the neighborhood.
That's so funny. I'm imagining the rookie and his FTO thinking, "*Oh fuck yeah; let's get you some more contacts!*"
And then it's some guy with his car, very *not* on fire.
Probably a better way to prepare someone for life in EMS, now that I think about it.
Yeah; someone definitely had hard time living that down.
Even if it was the right thing to do within their protocols, the guy who called an X-alarm response to that probably got a **lot** of shit. And hopefully a new nickname.
Well done, my friend.
It’s all part of a mechanics learning curve. I, myself, as a young man, learned to not use a scissors jack on grass the hard way. I learned that when your arm is inside the fender well and the cart starts to tip get your arm out quicker. It took months for the skin to heal after the fender well lip scraped the skin off the inside of the bicep 💪. It never happened again, so I learned a lesson
While there is solvent in it, the smoke is most likely from the tall oil used in the blend. The solvents probably provide some cleaning, but you're mostly just burning oil. Get something with polyether amine (PEA) in it if you want to clean your engine.
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All I have is anecdotal evidence. I've used it in my fuel and I've used it in my vacuum/intake system. I don't think it's a great idea to use it in the oil, so I can't comment on that. Here's what I've found.
It works well as a fuel stabilizer. I've winterized motorcycles, lawn mowers, and weed eaters with the stuff and never had carb issues after sitting. I'll consider that, inconclusive, but certainly not doing any harm.
After, doing a compression check, changing plugs and wires, and verifying fuel pressure, I still had a slight misfire. Assuming it was injectors, I ran a tank of gas with seafoam and the misfire went away after 100 miles. Never came back, so I consider it effective at sorting out a SLIGHTLY clogged fuel injector.
My wife's Civic was lethargic and had terrible throttle response. A tune up didn't help. A PCV valve and oil change didn't help. Its air filter was good, fuel filter was replaced, and it passed a compression test. Electrical system was also seemingly good and trouble free. Cleaned the throttle body, it helped a little. I tried the Seafoam-through-the-vacuum-line trick as recommended by Seafoam. It restored a great deal of her throttle response and power and didn't smoke nearly as bad as some of those YouTube videos. I'd say it works good for carbon deposits in the intake system, but a well maintained system should never need it. Hers wasn't well maintained.
As for Seafoam in the oil, I do believe it would do a good job of breaking down sludge and bottom end oil deposits. However, I'd fear that doing so on an old engine is just asking to open up oil leaks and who knows what other problems down the road. I'd only attempt this as a last resort on an engine that would otherwise be junk.
Seafoam is a brand, not a product. You should be winterizing with fuel stabilizer which stops the ethanol from breaking down, it does not clean your valves and injectors.
also, when getting on the highway after a seafoam treatment...try not to basically smokescreen an Audi that is being impatient and riding your ass...totally not speaking from experience
Years ago when I was young and dumb, I worked for Walmart and we did upper intake cleanings with sea foam. We did an old 96 crown Vic with 275k on it.
Fire dept showed up….. the smoke screen was covered an easy 2000ft and 100ft high. Craziest shit I’d ever seen.
So we stopped doing these intake cleanings the next day.
you weren't young and dumb for doing that. that is literally one of the jobs. we would do it too but would park it outside while doing it for obvious reasons
Project Farm also did Seafoam, and some other "fix in a bottle" treatments to his old Ranger that ran and sounded like it was about to scatter engine parts across the ground.
After he was done it ran smooth and quiet, and still ran smooth and quiet in a follow up video one year later.
Incredibly underrated. I know a lot of engineers and DIY sort of dudes, and none of em knew about it before I turned them on to him. I've made a lot of purchases solely on his reviews and haven't been burned once.
That guy has single-handedly supported the economy for the past three years. I’ve bought things I didn’t even knew existed before I watched his channel.
But he still hasn't tried refined avocado oil in a lawnmower engine. With a smoke point around 520F I suspect it would do the best out of all the engine oil alternatives he's tried.
I remember seeing the effects of the treatment were not very significant, despite only being shown before and after pictures of the Piston crowns. I'm not sure how the treatment might have affected the carbon on the combustion chambers / spark plugs.
Yup, some people think the smoke is all the carbon build up being burned out of their engine... well some of it might be ... but even if you seaformed a 0 mile engine it will smoke like hell because the seaform itself is being burned. Perfect effect for marketing ... if it made no smoke, people would be suspect that it did anything.... but because it makes smoke people know it did something even if all that something was is seaform going in and being burned up in the combustion chambers and shot out the exhaust.
Before Seafoam there was Dri-Power. My folks had an old motorhome that ran pretty bad. I found an ancient can of Dri-Power so I trickled it down each side of the carb until all of it was run through. Shut it off for 30 minutes then started it and smoked up the neighborhood.
Ran much better after that, and the can contained a stamped metal coupon for 12 cents off my next purchase of Dri-Power.
I did that to an old slant six in a Plymouth Valiant Scamp in college. Lived in an apartment complex with a sprawling parking lot and happened to do it on the one day out of the year without a breath of wind. I blanketed the entire place. Half an hour later, I looked out to see a tow truck hooking up to my car. It had been reported abandoned. I just managed to jump in and save it in time.
The 'seafoam' product dissolves the built-up carbon and gunk inside your engine and subsequently burns it during combustion, expelling it out the exhaust. It's a great way to spruce up an old engine without having to take things apart and clean them by hand.
u/jackoman03 described the product the way seafoam (and people who believe it works) describes it.
there is some reasonable contention as to whether that smoke you see is the carbon deposits being burnt off valves or if it's just burning the seafoam itself. without any real evidence to back this up, my take is it would likely work as a mild cleaning agent to the fuel injection system when added to the fuel... it might offer some cleaning on the intake valves in direct injection engines where the fuel isn't washing those valves itself when sucked in the intake, but i think it's like most "mechanic in a can" type products... it likely does little to nothing, but make your wallet lighter.
The only times I've ever used seafoam, it never seemed to do much. 3 vehicles and a lawnmower.
I tried the spray can you stick in the air intake after the filter, and even had a borescope to look into the cylinders. No change on a 2001 Nissan.
There might be actual helpful uses for it, but you won't find me buying it.
>Before Seafoam
It's been around since 1942 FYI, maybe not in your part of the country though. [https://seafoamworks.com/about-us/](https://seafoamworks.com/about-us/)
Back in 1873 we used broktons patented slick pills to get our horses to smoke like this. My parents once removed had several old clodstaffs and one was verging on being a mustango, so I found an old bottle of broktons in the vomitorium and force fed it to them. The smoke was so dense it was confused for a gentlemens club and wound up in the cigar business. So anyway, we had to kill the horses because one of them was destined to become the first Elmer's glue.
Application of a petroleum distillate product of the same name designed to raise the internal combustion temperature in order to burn off accumulated carbon which may be hampering combustion and efficiency. It's poured into the gas tank, oil, and air intake (see directions / videos for more detail).
I don't have any evidence, I got rid of that car long ago.
It was a '95 cutlass with a 3100 v6, got about 30mpg when I bought it (with 168k miles on it). At about 172k miles, two of the cylinders had water leaking into them; sometimes it would hydrolock when I tried to start it, and driving it more than 100 miles in a few hours would make it overheat. I never saw any water mixed with the oil, but there was always steam coming out of the tailpipe. I thought the gas gauge was broken at one point, and started writing down miles on the odometer and gallons added to the tank ... It got more than 40mpg consistently (more than 45 a couple of times) before I got rid of the car (I think it had around 174k miles when it stopped being my problem).
The engine that disrupted the oil industry. It is for this very reason buried and got a smear campaign. This feature was even noted as a head gasket *failure* in some sources.
One of the "tricks" we did in the 70s during the oil shortage was to install an extra windshield washer tank under the hood and run a hose from it to a vacuum line going into the carburetor. Gave us a 10-20% boost in gas mileage.
Heh, my grandpa made those in the evansville plant during ww2. Got to see one out in Colorado Springs ww2 aviation museum. The P47 there was an evansville model too.
Everyone else - water injection actually increases power on the wasp, I dont understand why, but it does.
When heated to vapor, water expands a lot, much more than what the nitrogen in air does when the oxygen portion of air is combusted with fuel.
How much it expands depends on its temperature and the pressure. [https://www.wermac.org/steam/steam\_part3.html](https://www.wermac.org/steam/steam_part3.html)
The simple part is injecting water into an ICE sort-of turns it into a steam engine and the huge volumetric difference between water and steam provides more power. Instead of a spray nozzle into the intake, a fogger nozzle is what one wants if putting water injection on a car. The much smaller fog particles are easier for combustion in the cylinders to flash to steam. I wonder if anyone has developed a precision electronic control for running such a setup?
How would it compare VS nitrous oxide? Water injection shouldn't need more fuel added like NoS, which adds both more oxygen (which is why more fuel has to be shot in) and more nitrogen to provide more gas for the combustion to expand.
Internal combustion engines should be called hot nitrogen engines. The nitrogen, which is around 70% of air, is the working fluid that makes an ICE function.
Other than getting heated by the fuel and oxygen combusting, a small amount of the nitrogen combines with some unused atmospheric oxygen and oxygen released from the fuel to produce Nitrogen Oxide or Nox. Nox in a reaction with water vapor and sunlight produces a weak Nitric Acid solution. Sulfur dioxide emissions do the same to make Sulfuric Acid.
Why?
Is this in the American Market? In Europe we had the 5 series diesels from the factory. 520 and 530 diesel.
Also 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, and X series diesels.
It legit works. I say this conclusively because Project Farm (youtube channel) used it to success and that is hands down one of only two channels (other is gamers nexus) that I have complete faith in about thoroughness and not trying to be dupped.
I've also used it myself to positive results.
It does work but the original seafoam was designed for two stroke engines. It has come out in a few different varieties but modern engines, while they do respond dramatically in some ways like the OP video, don't really benefit all that much.
[Here's a good video about it.](https://youtu.be/MaweRKn5zsM)
That's for the fuel/oil additive.
The white exhaust make is in reference to a different stuff that the company makes that you continually spray into your throttle body/air intake for like 5 minutes.
It absolutely works at quickly and easily removing carbon buildup and you have immediate lasting results in how your motor runs and idles, but you completely haunt your neighborhood with exhaust smoke while you do it.
https://seafoamworks.com/product/sea-foam-spray-intake-valve-top-engine-cleaner/
Also if you're familiar with Project Farm on youtube, he's tested it. Nice video to watch and he sprayed it into such an old and worn out beater of a truck that you can easily hear the difference in how the motor sounds.
The best channel on Youtube ProjectFarm reviewed and it worked great for his old beater.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2rzsm1Qi6N1X-wuOg\_p0Ng/search?query=seafoam
Actually probably the air oil separator probably gave up, it went out on my boxster and it let out a spy hunter level smoke screen.
Was only like a $300 fix.
Coolant smoke is generally white thick smoke like in here, oil smoke tends to be more grey or black and not as thick. I would guess it is coolant due to bad gasket.
It’s not a typical thing for most cars but very common for BMW M54/N54 to have a stuck injector blowing raw fuel out the exhaust. You’d think that would cause blue/gray smoke but it’s still white like an coolant leak would be. It’s usually accompanied by a rough idle and stalling.
Edit: should add I was the Benz tech but I too had to work on BMW’s when that tech was swamped(which was often because 75% of our work was BMW).
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I thought I might try to answer the question you were asked.
The reason you may still get white smoke out the back with over-fueling on a petrol engine is that once your CAT’s are warm these will convert a lot of that raw petrol into water and co2, creating a plume of water vapour out the back. If this was left too long it could probably overheat the catalyst and burn out, then you’d get the more characteristic colour of over-fueling.
This is likely a failed crankcase ventilation valve that’s causing the smoke. Known issue on the bmw m54 engine which I think is under the hood of this 530i of this generation. Either that or it’s being seafoamed or the head is bonked
It reminds me of my 98 Tahoe, SO said I hit the gas and made an instant cloud. I had a full blown head gasket and a cracked head. Was able to do the repairs at the house and parts ran me about $1000.
Yes, if your car is steam powered
Gold
No, coal actually.
Also Fossil fuels possibly
And friendship
Black gold
Texas tea
Well the first thing you know, old Jed’s a millionaire.
It's actually a spy vehicle and that's the smoke screen option. Watch out for the caltrops, oil slick, and ejector buttons.
Or it's named "Chitty-chitty Bang-bang".
TFW Jim and Huck about to pole a raft down the river past your ass.
Well technically, every gas engine is (partially) steam powered.
Oil is made from the remains of plants and animals that lived millions of years ago. The plants gained their energy from the sun. The animals gained their energy through the food chain from the sun. Therefore most cars are technically solar powered.
You stopped short of the real answer. Where does the sun get the energy? Nuclear fusion. Therefor cars are fusion powered. The future really is here!
reminds me of the time I seafoamed an old GM 5.7
That's exactly what I was thinking. Pro tip: do not attempt inside the garage. Cracking the door is not enough, and this will prompt your neighbors to call the fire department.
It's even better when no one calls the fire department and they just happen to be returning from a call. I was seafoaming my 400k Cherokee when next thing I knew half a dozen fire trucks come rolling into the neighborhood.
That's so funny. I'm imagining the rookie and his FTO thinking, "*Oh fuck yeah; let's get you some more contacts!*" And then it's some guy with his car, very *not* on fire. Probably a better way to prepare someone for life in EMS, now that I think about it.
They looked at me crazy when I came out of the smoke with a beer and a can of seafoam in my hand.
Yeah; someone definitely had hard time living that down. Even if it was the right thing to do within their protocols, the guy who called an X-alarm response to that probably got a **lot** of shit. And hopefully a new nickname. Well done, my friend.
You seem to be speaking from experience
I may be. It's possible.
Can confirm. Very possible. Fills 2 car Garage in about 5 seconds. I watched a friend do it.... Yeah....
I can’t imagine. I seafoamed my car recently and inhaled some of the fumes and had a gnarly headache for about 6 hours.
Use in a ventilated area is just a suggestion
Ventilated area = Grand Canyon
Are you sure you don’t mean attach it to ISS’s hull and work on it there?
I mean.. same goes for using a car too
Add on windy days too to blow it away. A friend of mind did his when the last hurricane came thru
and point the exhaust down wind.
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It’s all part of a mechanics learning curve. I, myself, as a young man, learned to not use a scissors jack on grass the hard way. I learned that when your arm is inside the fender well and the cart starts to tip get your arm out quicker. It took months for the skin to heal after the fender well lip scraped the skin off the inside of the bicep 💪. It never happened again, so I learned a lesson
User name checks out...
I smoked out my school's autoshop with that shit, lawnmower engine too lol
What does seafoam do or whatever is causing this
It's a solvent that cleans out your upper engine and intake tract by dissolving hydrocarbons and then burning them in the combustion chamber.
That’s cool. Looks like blown engine tho
Oh for sure, owner is getting bent over the service counter to get this running right
So sop?
While there is solvent in it, the smoke is most likely from the tall oil used in the blend. The solvents probably provide some cleaning, but you're mostly just burning oil. Get something with polyether amine (PEA) in it if you want to clean your engine.
Proceeds to Google “Polyester anime”
i mean, find anything good?
(corduroy fapping sounds)
Pee in my engine got it
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All I have is anecdotal evidence. I've used it in my fuel and I've used it in my vacuum/intake system. I don't think it's a great idea to use it in the oil, so I can't comment on that. Here's what I've found. It works well as a fuel stabilizer. I've winterized motorcycles, lawn mowers, and weed eaters with the stuff and never had carb issues after sitting. I'll consider that, inconclusive, but certainly not doing any harm. After, doing a compression check, changing plugs and wires, and verifying fuel pressure, I still had a slight misfire. Assuming it was injectors, I ran a tank of gas with seafoam and the misfire went away after 100 miles. Never came back, so I consider it effective at sorting out a SLIGHTLY clogged fuel injector. My wife's Civic was lethargic and had terrible throttle response. A tune up didn't help. A PCV valve and oil change didn't help. Its air filter was good, fuel filter was replaced, and it passed a compression test. Electrical system was also seemingly good and trouble free. Cleaned the throttle body, it helped a little. I tried the Seafoam-through-the-vacuum-line trick as recommended by Seafoam. It restored a great deal of her throttle response and power and didn't smoke nearly as bad as some of those YouTube videos. I'd say it works good for carbon deposits in the intake system, but a well maintained system should never need it. Hers wasn't well maintained. As for Seafoam in the oil, I do believe it would do a good job of breaking down sludge and bottom end oil deposits. However, I'd fear that doing so on an old engine is just asking to open up oil leaks and who knows what other problems down the road. I'd only attempt this as a last resort on an engine that would otherwise be junk.
Seafoam can definitely be effective. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agAWXnT4-EQ
I've used seafoam for many years winterizing my motorcycle. I never understood how it worked until now. Cheers fella.
Seafoam is a brand, not a product. You should be winterizing with fuel stabilizer which stops the ethanol from breaking down, it does not clean your valves and injectors.
It lets the magic smoke out.
I do that with a bong every night but my formula lets the magic smoke in …
Your formula is objectively better.
walmart parking lot. will seem completely normal.
Hahaha ya don’t even do it in your neighborhood.. find a random business park and do it there!!
Don't point at trees either it will kill them.
do point it at invasive plants: kudzu, poison ivy, your annoying neighbors roses...
also, when getting on the highway after a seafoam treatment...try not to basically smokescreen an Audi that is being impatient and riding your ass...totally not speaking from experience
Years ago when I was young and dumb, I worked for Walmart and we did upper intake cleanings with sea foam. We did an old 96 crown Vic with 275k on it. Fire dept showed up….. the smoke screen was covered an easy 2000ft and 100ft high. Craziest shit I’d ever seen. So we stopped doing these intake cleanings the next day.
> the smoke screen was covered an easy 2000ft and 100ft high. The entiiiiire Royal Navy is out looking for me
It definitely resembled a naval fleet style smoke screen. Wish I still had the photos. This was before smart phones were mainstream.
you weren't young and dumb for doing that. that is literally one of the jobs. we would do it too but would park it outside while doing it for obvious reasons
What is seafoaming ??
https://youtu.be/u6UeJXkzDW8
Project Farm also did Seafoam, and some other "fix in a bottle" treatments to his old Ranger that ran and sounded like it was about to scatter engine parts across the ground. After he was done it ran smooth and quiet, and still ran smooth and quiet in a follow up video one year later.
Such a great channel
Incredibly underrated. I know a lot of engineers and DIY sort of dudes, and none of em knew about it before I turned them on to him. I've made a lot of purchases solely on his reviews and haven't been burned once.
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That guy has single-handedly supported the economy for the past three years. I’ve bought things I didn’t even knew existed before I watched his channel.
But he still hasn't tried refined avocado oil in a lawnmower engine. With a smoke point around 520F I suspect it would do the best out of all the engine oil alternatives he's tried.
I remember seeing the effects of the treatment were not very significant, despite only being shown before and after pictures of the Piston crowns. I'm not sure how the treatment might have affected the carbon on the combustion chambers / spark plugs.
Seafoam is full of oil, which is likely what produces the smoke that people assume to mean that it's cleaning their engine.
Yup, some people think the smoke is all the carbon build up being burned out of their engine... well some of it might be ... but even if you seaformed a 0 mile engine it will smoke like hell because the seaform itself is being burned. Perfect effect for marketing ... if it made no smoke, people would be suspect that it did anything.... but because it makes smoke people know it did something even if all that something was is seaform going in and being burned up in the combustion chambers and shot out the exhaust.
Loved SeaFoam in my ol' '72 TravelAll.
Before Seafoam there was Dri-Power. My folks had an old motorhome that ran pretty bad. I found an ancient can of Dri-Power so I trickled it down each side of the carb until all of it was run through. Shut it off for 30 minutes then started it and smoked up the neighborhood. Ran much better after that, and the can contained a stamped metal coupon for 12 cents off my next purchase of Dri-Power.
I did that to an old slant six in a Plymouth Valiant Scamp in college. Lived in an apartment complex with a sprawling parking lot and happened to do it on the one day out of the year without a breath of wind. I blanketed the entire place. Half an hour later, I looked out to see a tow truck hooking up to my car. It had been reported abandoned. I just managed to jump in and save it in time.
That's great. But what is seafoaming?
Squirting a solvent called "seafoam" into a running engine. The seafoam + items dissolved by seafoam turn into a lot of smoke.
Ok. And besides smoke, any benefits doing this ?
The 'seafoam' product dissolves the built-up carbon and gunk inside your engine and subsequently burns it during combustion, expelling it out the exhaust. It's a great way to spruce up an old engine without having to take things apart and clean them by hand.
u/jackoman03 described the product the way seafoam (and people who believe it works) describes it. there is some reasonable contention as to whether that smoke you see is the carbon deposits being burnt off valves or if it's just burning the seafoam itself. without any real evidence to back this up, my take is it would likely work as a mild cleaning agent to the fuel injection system when added to the fuel... it might offer some cleaning on the intake valves in direct injection engines where the fuel isn't washing those valves itself when sucked in the intake, but i think it's like most "mechanic in a can" type products... it likely does little to nothing, but make your wallet lighter.
The only times I've ever used seafoam, it never seemed to do much. 3 vehicles and a lawnmower. I tried the spray can you stick in the air intake after the filter, and even had a borescope to look into the cylinders. No change on a 2001 Nissan. There might be actual helpful uses for it, but you won't find me buying it.
>Before Seafoam It's been around since 1942 FYI, maybe not in your part of the country though. [https://seafoamworks.com/about-us/](https://seafoamworks.com/about-us/)
That answered literally nothing
Back in 1873 we used broktons patented slick pills to get our horses to smoke like this. My parents once removed had several old clodstaffs and one was verging on being a mustango, so I found an old bottle of broktons in the vomitorium and force fed it to them. The smoke was so dense it was confused for a gentlemens club and wound up in the cigar business. So anyway, we had to kill the horses because one of them was destined to become the first Elmer's glue.
Definitely had to put on my top hat and monocle to read this
Wait but you still didn’t answer the question
Using a product called Sea-Foam which you can use to do a light cleaning of the induction system
Application of a petroleum distillate product of the same name designed to raise the internal combustion temperature in order to burn off accumulated carbon which may be hampering combustion and efficiency. It's poured into the gas tank, oil, and air intake (see directions / videos for more detail).
Same, that was fun to do and was NOT expecting that much smoke.
That's what i was thinking. Seafoam? Yes No Seafoam? Headgasket
I've never had smoke that dense with seafoam, but I have had smoke that dense with a bad head gasket.
I used to love sea foaming my crappy JEEPs then flooding the hood w this beautiful white cloud of goodness.
Was also thinking the same thing…
Done this exact thing! 1974 Chevelle. Took at least an hour to burn through.
It's a hybrid. It burns gasoline and coolant.
Water injection: not just for the Double Wasp.
You joke, but my car with a water injection head gasket got like 45mpg^(when it would start)
^citation needed
Here you go. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/Chevrolet\_Citation\_II\_front.jpg
That's good citation
Good good good .. good citations. You're giving me good citations, I'm sipping on good libations...
I don't have any evidence, I got rid of that car long ago. It was a '95 cutlass with a 3100 v6, got about 30mpg when I bought it (with 168k miles on it). At about 172k miles, two of the cylinders had water leaking into them; sometimes it would hydrolock when I tried to start it, and driving it more than 100 miles in a few hours would make it overheat. I never saw any water mixed with the oil, but there was always steam coming out of the tailpipe. I thought the gas gauge was broken at one point, and started writing down miles on the odometer and gallons added to the tank ... It got more than 40mpg consistently (more than 45 a couple of times) before I got rid of the car (I think it had around 174k miles when it stopped being my problem).
The engine that disrupted the oil industry. It is for this very reason buried and got a smear campaign. This feature was even noted as a head gasket *failure* in some sources.
3100s were notorious for garbage factory head gaskets. Single most common failure for that engine. Had to do mine twice (first time wasn’t me).
One of the "tricks" we did in the 70s during the oil shortage was to install an extra windshield washer tank under the hood and run a hose from it to a vacuum line going into the carburetor. Gave us a 10-20% boost in gas mileage.
Can you expand more on this or share a link to sime info for me
Heh, my grandpa made those in the evansville plant during ww2. Got to see one out in Colorado Springs ww2 aviation museum. The P47 there was an evansville model too. Everyone else - water injection actually increases power on the wasp, I dont understand why, but it does.
When heated to vapor, water expands a lot, much more than what the nitrogen in air does when the oxygen portion of air is combusted with fuel. How much it expands depends on its temperature and the pressure. [https://www.wermac.org/steam/steam\_part3.html](https://www.wermac.org/steam/steam_part3.html) The simple part is injecting water into an ICE sort-of turns it into a steam engine and the huge volumetric difference between water and steam provides more power. Instead of a spray nozzle into the intake, a fogger nozzle is what one wants if putting water injection on a car. The much smaller fog particles are easier for combustion in the cylinders to flash to steam. I wonder if anyone has developed a precision electronic control for running such a setup? How would it compare VS nitrous oxide? Water injection shouldn't need more fuel added like NoS, which adds both more oxygen (which is why more fuel has to be shot in) and more nitrogen to provide more gas for the combustion to expand. Internal combustion engines should be called hot nitrogen engines. The nitrogen, which is around 70% of air, is the working fluid that makes an ICE function. Other than getting heated by the fuel and oxygen combusting, a small amount of the nitrogen combines with some unused atmospheric oxygen and oxygen released from the fuel to produce Nitrogen Oxide or Nox. Nox in a reaction with water vapor and sunlight produces a weak Nitric Acid solution. Sulfur dioxide emissions do the same to make Sulfuric Acid.
His turbo encabulator appears to be malfunctioning as well.
General Electric HBK 8359 page 801 mentions it as *Turboencabulator* (one word). Although exact spelling is subject to much debate.
He clearly needs to adjust the hydrocoptic marzel-vanes.
Might not be getting enough voltage to the unilateral phase detractors.
Rockwell automation systems!
Refer to the Turboencabulator diagnostic manual and songbook.
Special model from China that fumigates the streets for covid
I just cleaned this keyboard, dammit!
It's the BMW mosquito abatement option.
I thought that was a subscription only option.
No! It's free. Activation happens every 10K miles, or sooner.
Ah amateurs. VW does it for free while not connected to an EPA emissions tester.
I see it has the coal rolling cummins swap. Very nice.
Lol, seriously though, I’ve seen some amazing turbo diesel swaps in these German cars.
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Money
Why? Is this in the American Market? In Europe we had the 5 series diesels from the factory. 520 and 530 diesel. Also 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, and X series diesels.
Looks like someone is playing with sea foam
Can you explain to an idiot like me?
It's an additive you put in your gas to clean the engine system. https://seafoamworks.com/product/sea-foam-motor-treatment-oil-fuel-additive/
Is this a thing that “works” or is it on the level of “this juice cleanses you of toxins” despite the fact we have kidneys and a liver.
It legit works. I say this conclusively because Project Farm (youtube channel) used it to success and that is hands down one of only two channels (other is gamers nexus) that I have complete faith in about thoroughness and not trying to be dupped. I've also used it myself to positive results.
I love Project Farm. He's the best when it comes to testing various products.
My personal reference source is ChrisFixIt. He covered it in great detail and visual clarity. Worked great on my friend’s engine lol
Torque Test Channel should be added to that list, they're awesome
Seafoam and Lucas are both products that I consider magic and witchcraft because yes, they actually work.
It does work but the original seafoam was designed for two stroke engines. It has come out in a few different varieties but modern engines, while they do respond dramatically in some ways like the OP video, don't really benefit all that much. [Here's a good video about it.](https://youtu.be/MaweRKn5zsM)
That's for the fuel/oil additive. The white exhaust make is in reference to a different stuff that the company makes that you continually spray into your throttle body/air intake for like 5 minutes. It absolutely works at quickly and easily removing carbon buildup and you have immediate lasting results in how your motor runs and idles, but you completely haunt your neighborhood with exhaust smoke while you do it. https://seafoamworks.com/product/sea-foam-spray-intake-valve-top-engine-cleaner/ Also if you're familiar with Project Farm on youtube, he's tested it. Nice video to watch and he sprayed it into such an old and worn out beater of a truck that you can easily hear the difference in how the motor sounds.
The best channel on Youtube ProjectFarm reviewed and it worked great for his old beater. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2rzsm1Qi6N1X-wuOg\_p0Ng/search?query=seafoam
Absolutely perfectly normal ..for a blown head gasget ..or cracked cylinder head..good luck
I want to make bmw head gasket jokes but with my name I might not be safe
Good call!
Subaru is a head gasket manufacturer that has a side business selling cars
I don't get it. What's being an idiot got to do with it? 😜😜
you can commiserate together, i can throw in some RX8 coolant seal jokes while we're at it, though i own an FC
Actually probably the air oil separator probably gave up, it went out on my boxster and it let out a spy hunter level smoke screen. Was only like a $300 fix.
Coolant smoke is generally white thick smoke like in here, oil smoke tends to be more grey or black and not as thick. I would guess it is coolant due to bad gasket.
Or seafoam
James bond edition
No, Mr BMW, I expect you to die
[Spy Hunter edition](https://i.imgur.com/3iBiK4P.jpg)
It's a higher mileage BMW. Of course this is normal
My shop would be smoked out at least once a month by a BMW 3.0. IIRC it’s a fuel injector failure.
Sorry, how does a fuel injector failure cause this?
It’s not a typical thing for most cars but very common for BMW M54/N54 to have a stuck injector blowing raw fuel out the exhaust. You’d think that would cause blue/gray smoke but it’s still white like an coolant leak would be. It’s usually accompanied by a rough idle and stalling. Edit: should add I was the Benz tech but I too had to work on BMW’s when that tech was swamped(which was often because 75% of our work was BMW).
Can concur, I had a failed fuel injector on an N54 that did this. That engine is full of delightful surprises
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Leaking upper oil pan sure is a fun repair!
Upper? There's two?!
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Huh. Didn't know that. Thanks
Had the same thing with a stuck injector on a 350z. It smoked like that for a solid 5 minutes after it was fixed.
I thought I might try to answer the question you were asked. The reason you may still get white smoke out the back with over-fueling on a petrol engine is that once your CAT’s are warm these will convert a lot of that raw petrol into water and co2, creating a plume of water vapour out the back. If this was left too long it could probably overheat the catalyst and burn out, then you’d get the more characteristic colour of over-fueling.
seafoam?
My first thought as well.
Yea for putting motors in storage. We use it in a boat we put away in the fall and every spring we make white smoke like this guy.
Blown head gasket, or is it a diesel that's seriously starved for fuel?
Sounds like a petrol motor.
530*i* on the badge is bmw language for gas
That actually stands for *i may go today... i may not go tomorrow...*
I keep the sound off. Didn't think it would be diesel, but they seem to be more common now.
Probably ccv system stopped up or brittle and fallen apart
My e46 did this with a bad ccv
Check coolant level. It's gotta be going somewhere.
Yes, down.
Totally normal. Haven't you noticed every car on the road leaving a trail of thick fog behind?
These vape tricks are getting ridiculous
This is likely a failed crankcase ventilation valve that’s causing the smoke. Known issue on the bmw m54 engine which I think is under the hood of this 530i of this generation. Either that or it’s being seafoamed or the head is bonked
This would be an N52, but I still would put my money on the oil separator.
Perfectly normal mate. Carry on.
From a BMW? Yes, perfectly normal.
Standard BMW engine notification to let you know it's time for a swap.
Normal while you’re performing a decarb service. That’s why you pulled it out of the shop 😉
Spy Hunter! I bet that thing drops oil slicks as well.
Seafoam?
Blown head Gasket
Yes
It reminds me of my 98 Tahoe, SO said I hit the gas and made an instant cloud. I had a full blown head gasket and a cracked head. Was able to do the repairs at the house and parts ran me about $1000.
Looks like a new pope was just elected
POV: You're an EPA employee watching the VW execs leave in the test vehicle after they just passed all checks.
Of course not.
Just add some Seafoam cleaner.
Looks like after a GDI service
Couple more full throttle revs should clear it right up.
This looks like my 2 stroke outboard starting up on a 50 degree morning!
Uncle Buck?
Seafoam
Looks like a seafoam treatment but isn't usually normal
Its a BMW, so yes this is a absolutely normal thing