It's an upper engine flush.

 

Is it something I could do at my house or do I need a bunch of special tools and stuff..

 

If you look at the picture, you need that system that plugs into the vacuum lines to feed the chemical.

 

Yeah I don't have any of that. Another person on that thread said he just drove his pickup down till the fuel light came on and put a bottle of fuel system cleaner in and drove it basically empty and none of his broke. That's probably what I'll end up doing since I don't want to have to pay to have it done and I'll have the lisle tool just in case. So I don't think I'll have too much to worry about!

 

I didn't want to take responsibility for it or have the aggravation....so I paid the dealer to do mine around 75k miles or something like that. They said they all came out pretty well (none broke). I didn't do anything special to it before taking it in. My driving habits are mostly highway so I guess the engine was pretty clean overall. I'm hoping to not have to replace the plugs again...but since I'll likely have to keep this truck for another 4 years or so to make my wife happy, I may indeed get them replaced again...at the dealer.

Oh and I also had my tranny fluid exchanged. No pan drop. My old school mind was thinking I really need to drop the pan and change the fluid....but many people convinced me to just leave it alone and only have the fluid swapped out at the dealer. So that's what I did. My luck is anyway that if I did it at home and dropped the pan, it would leak after re-installing the pan. That's just my luck. Since the engine is bone dry at 122k miles now, I figured I'd play it safe and not do the pan drop and keep my dry engine :-)

 

Seafoam?
It works well on carbed applications but I have yet to see its potential on fuel injected motors as far as the fuel system is concerned. We had a higher number of breaks with this stuff. Motovac is another excellent option to do also.

At the shop where I work part time at......we started to suggest to use two bottles Techron before the plug change our breakage numbers went down dramatically.
We still loosen them an 1/8 turn and use the B12 chemtool carb cleaner...let them soak for a hour...then the 3/8 impact works its magic.
Only have broken one in the last ten plug jobs on these beasts.
The lisle tool sits there and collects dust now.

 

I ran Techron through the last two tanks of gas I put in before I had the plugs changed. None broke. I'm not sure if it truly helped but it probably didn't hurt!

 

That's good to know about the Techron. There have been some use the Seafoam and swear by it, putting it in through the brake booster hose and in the fuel tank. I would never use it myself.

 

88... Sounds like thats what i'll be doing. Couldn't hurt since its worked so goo for you guys! Another question.. Do you all start out with the 1/8 turn with the engine warmed up or cold? I know by the time you put the impact on it it would practically be cold again. But I want to basically do exactly what you guys do since it works so good! Thanks

 

The longest we let them run is the time it takes to pull them into the shop and park it in a bay.

Some others on here have done them both warm and cold, with and without impacts......seems to me the impact is winning the war on the plugs....

 

Ok. Do you just use the impact on full power and turn on them untill they come out?

 

Also I just called two dealers and they said 166 for the flush. I guess I just forgot the extra 100 lol.