Sep 28th 2018, 04:11 PM
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Originally Posted by jyli19 Please do NOT put seaform on these bikes, please. The fuel system is electronic controlled. Seaform is a very strong agent, a lot of plastic parts in these machines. Seaform can damage micro mesh filter... all sorts of stuff. |
Seafoam doesn't destroy plastic, rubber, or anything really. It's a petroleum product, has no added cleaners or anything. Gasoline has more cleaning agents in it than seafoam does. All seafoam does is break up the sludge from the byproducts in gasoline, it isn't really a "cleaning" agent.
I dunno where you got the idea it can damage EFI systems, but most bikes nowadays are EFI and I've never heard of seafoam damaging anything in them. The only possible downside of seafoam is if you use it on something with a ton of buildup; you can possibly harm the motor if you have a ton of debris in sludge in your fuel system and suddenly run it all through the motor.
It isn't really necessary to run it through any modern bike because most of them don't have the mileage to require it. However, in my case, I got terrible gas from a station (likely old gas sitting in the bottom that had sludged up) and needed to flush that bullshit out of the fuel system since it was obviously messing up fueling. The V4 only has a 4 gallon tank, so it isn't difficult to run through an entire tank in just a day or so, meaning even if seafoam could damage things, it never sat there long enough to do so.
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