Upgrades for longevity

[Sean Buick 76]

Then there’s the water trickled into the throttle body trick too!
At 82k I’m not touching my heads, at least hopefully not for a while.

Yes the water drizzled into the intake does help steam clean the combustion chamber however I’ve always used a spray bottle because the risk of hydro locking an engine with too much water is too high to risk it. If I buy a vehicle that’s got a dirty intake and combustion chamber I will use sea foam spray into the throttle body while it’s running till the can is empty. Shut the engine off and then the next day take it for a rip on the highway.

On my old 76 Buick it had 70,000 miles when I got it in 2003. It was so carboned up it barely could do a burnout. By 2010 it had burned so much carbon out the exhaust it was incredible. A boroscope showed that the combustion chambers were now clean. All I used was seafoam in the fuel and seafoam soak before leaving it to soak overnight. Also driven as a 16 year old would lol! The carbon buildup increases detonation and pre ignition as well.

 

[Schurkey]

I first drizzled water down the carb primary venturis to steam-clean the combustion chambers forty-something years ago.

A "urine stream" back-and-forth between the carb venturis with the engine at fast-idle. You'd never hydro-lock an engine that way.

I probably dump over a gallon of water altogether. Change the oil afterward, it'll have moisture from blow-by.

 

[Sean Buick 76]

I first drizzled water down the carb primary venturis to steam-clean the combustion chambers forty-something years ago.

A "urine stream" back-and-forth between the carb venturis with the engine at fast-idle. You'd never hydro-lock an engine that way.

I probably dump over a gallon of water altogether. Change the oil afterward, it'll have moisture from blow-by.

I agree however when giving internet advice I’d hate to see someone dump too much water down an engine. In your educated capable hands the water trickle is fine but I won’t advice that to novices online who may not know what hydro locking even is.

Much respect

 

[Erik the Awful]

When I was a dealer tech, we used an A/C freon can side tap to put a controlled drizzle of BG engine cleaner into the intake tract. Worked great.
www.amazon.com/gohantee-Thread-Refrigerant-Manifold-System/dp/B0BXGKQQPM

 

[Caman96]

the water trickled into the throttle body

A "urine stream" back-and-forth

I agree however when giving internet advice I’d hate to see someone dump too much water down an engine.

A trickle “is” less than a stream.

 

[l1lartur0]

A trickle “is” less than a stream.

This becomes more and more true as I get older.

 

[Caman96]

This becomes more and more true as I get older.

I knew it was going there too!