Posted by rrlund on May 02, 2023 at 07:43:42 from (173.225.203.221):
I always thought that stuff was a punch line for a joke, but apparently it works. The cam phasers started acting up in my 07 Ford 5.4 a year ago February. I didn't even know about such a thing, but when I took it to the local Tire and Auto where we have things done, Tim told me that's likely what it was. He said sometimes an oil change helps, so I changed it. It was still acting up a few months later, so my son told me to put Sea Foam in it. I smiled because I thought he was joking. He said ''No, I'm serious''. I did, and after a while, it straightened out and the tick went away.
Two weeks ago, I was hauling a chopper home from an auction, slowed down for a light about three miles from home and that thing cut loose hammering like it had dropped about 4 valves in to the pistons. I limped toward home with it hammering home and smoothing out. I got a few hundred feet from home and it smoothed right out. I was about 700 miles over due for an oil change, so I had the wife go get oil, a filter and a bottle of sea foam and changed the oil. It was ticking bad after the change and I figured the damage was permanent this time.
I hauled a fertilizer spreader with it last week and it was ticking pretty bad. I had to take a load of cattle to the sale barn yesterday and was on pins and needles over it. By the time I was 15 miles from home, I couldn't hear the ticking anymore at road speed, but when we unloaded 35 miles later, it was still ticking while it idled. When we got home, the ticking was gone. I started it this morning just to see and it was quiet even while it was cold.
Tim didn't want to get in to it deep enough to change those cam phasers, so I called another shop that my son recommended, told the service manger the story and that it has 228,000 miles on it, and that I thought we should change them anyway. He said it would be a smart thing to do, so it's going in later this month.
I don't know what's in that stuff or whether it's good for an engine in the long run or not, but it sure cleaned out those oil passages and got those phasers working right again.
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