Homemade Seafoam Knockoff
Intro: Homemade Seafoam Knockoff
Somewhere near the front counter of nearly every automotive store. You will see a small red and white container of seafoam for $12 a bottle. As it turns out it is not a very complicated product and only consists of few ingredients. you can actually find the MSDS of seafoam online http://www.sueschauls.com/Seafoam_motor_treatment....
The ingredient are as follows:
40-60% Pail Oil: Deisel Fuel, Automatic transmission fluid, or a light motor oil.
25-35% Napatha
10-20% IPA AKA: Isopropyl Alcohol
STEP 1:
So now that you have you ingredients to make your own engine additive. You just have to mix them together and store them. Its easier to remember as the 4-2-1 method. 4 parts pail oil, 2 parts Napatha, 1 part Isopropyl Alcohol.
I just use a measuring cup and store in a 1 gal container. The measurements are as follows.
4 cups of diesel fuel
2 cups of the Napatha
1 cup of Isopropyl Alcohol.
When treating the fuel I use the seafoam dosage recommendations of 1oz per gallon. Just to be on the safe side. Now I do not claim this dosage or ingredients to be an exact replica of the seafoam brand itself. Im sure they have other additives, or blends added. I am going off of the MSDS sheets and from what I have learned through my research online. It is always better to be safe than sorry. I am not liable for any damages that may occur.
2 Comments
nekolin 8 years ago
if you are seafoaming the intake just use water it works better then seaform if you are cleaning anything else just use lucas products they are way better and cheaper or for even cheaper use marvel mystery oil
nightmare_man 8 years ago
http://hildstrom.com/projects/seafoam/
If you have an idea as to what you're doing you can make some substitutions for a better product. You have the most to gain by playing whit what's used as "pail oil". I would love to try biodiesel as a pail oil, as it has stronger cleaning ability while still enabling lubrication. That or biodiesel/gasoline mixed at around 2:1