I finally picked up a bottle of Sea Foam this weekend from NAPA. I attempted to suck it up thru the brake booster hose as suggested on here previously. With barely sucking any of the product up, the engine almost immediately died (and would not start back up with the brake booster hose disconnected.) I reconnected the hose, started the engine back up, disconnected the hose once again, and had a friend give it some gas to keep the RPM's up around 1000 to 1500 while sucking the entire 16 oz bottle up. Let it sit for 15 minutes, and started it back up, and had a massive cloud of smoke billow out that lasted for over 5 minutes! After waiting for a few minutes, and the smoke still flying out, I decided to go for a drive attempting to get the rest of the product and carbon out. I noticed smoke continueing to billow out for the first mile or two. When I got back home, the product and carbon deposits had apparently finally worked it's way out, and my exhaust once again appeared normal. The product seems to made a HUGE difference. My engine has been idling (and even revving) pretty rough as of late, and my thottle response and power has seemed to gone to hell over the last few weeks in the high temperatures. (I'm currently at 125k) Although it has not been as hot outside, amazingly, Sea Foam seemed to have corrected my problem. My engine is idling as smooth as ever, and throttle response and power seems once again like new. It has been cooler here in Dallas over the last several days, so I look forwards to seeing how it runs next week when the temperatures get back in the mid 90's. I went ahead and picked up a second bottle to run through the gas tank as soon I can get my fuel filter changed (I figure it would not be a good idea to run the product thru a dirty fuel filter with close to 50,000 miles on it thinking it could force some of the 'debris' in the fuel filter past the filter and upstream into my fuel injection system.) Has anyone added this to their oil before doing an oil change? I know the rule of thumb is to never add anything to your oil, so I'm a little hesitant. What do yall think? Now if I can just get the damn fuel filter off! I was able to relieve the fuel pressure, and get the outlet hose disconnected useing the fuel line disconnect tool, but could not get the inlet off after tugging on it for 20 minutes. Theoretically it should be the same as the outlet. I'm going to try again with a friend's help with a little more experience tonight..

 

Hey STX..... long time..... Instead of pulling try pushing in then pull apart...If at first try again...check out my gallery and my new truck...traded in the '97 on a '03 a year ago May

 

Hey TexforD... Good to hear from you... I will definatly try your suggestion this evening on the fuel filter. I'm really not sure why is was giving me such a hard time.. After tugging on it for a half hour, I was running out of strength, so perhaps I just need a fresh start! For whatever reason, I wasn't able to find your gallery on the new '03. When I click on 'Photo Galleries' and then 'View Galleries of F-150 Users' and then do a search for 'Texford' I'm only able to find your '97 at the link below. Can you post a link?

https://www.f150online.com/galleries....cfm?gnum=1490

 

Click on the virgin album lower right corner of the cover page there. Hook up the tool and push down on the tool and at the same time push the filter and line together and you'll feel the tool seat and then pull it apart.