Quote from: Egaeus on May 16, 2007, 09:29:48 AM
Of course, in the time it's taken to talk about seafoam, you could have torn down your carb, cleaned it out, gave it a good polish, chromed it, covered its woo-hoo in gold due to an unfortunate smelting accident, and had it put back in.

Actually I did tear down the carb in that time Luckily it was spotless so no seafoam for me.

Here's the stupidest part... One of the reasons I decided to go ahead and check out the carbs instead of using seafoam was that I just changed the oil and didn't want to have to do it again after a seafoam treatment...

Quote from: spcterry on May 16, 2007, 09:34:25 AM
Whoa!!!!!  Your carb has a WooHoo   You might want to check into that, I dont think thats normal

Yeah, and when I twiddle it's woohoo, it makes it run faster.  Or maybe that's the idle screw....

Anyone know if you get this 'SeaFoam" in Australia?

I know Holden has a Top End Engine Cleaner which is magic stuff at removing carbon deposits from the intake system of car engines. I guess it would do the trick too on the Gs500.

The "SeaFoam" topic came up a while back so i rang all the bike/car outlets here in Adelaide but no one
has ever heard of it.
You'll have to order it from the US.

Quote from: Egaeus on May 16, 2007, 09:29:48 AM
Of course, in the time it's taken to talk about seafoam, you could have torn down your carb, cleaned it out, gave it a good polish, ...

Except if you are like me, I break two things for every one that I fix.  It has taken 3 dead-ish bikes for me to figure that out.     Now I do gas and oil and as little as possible else...  I just don't care if it is running perfectly, because if I try to make it perfect, it will stop running all together!!!

I just seafoamed the crap out of my 91 GS500 yesterday.

It would idle but it bogged down under load and would stall or ride really rough. The carb had probably never been addressed.

I fed the sea foam up the vaccume hose, put some in the gas tank, and some in the oil. All those things were suggested in the directions so I figured, eh, let's do it all. If you're careful you can actually do it on a GS with one can. $5 = C H E A P. 

I let it run for a while until it started to smoke and cut the engine. Then I went inside and made myself some food. When went back out I did a full oil change and then started up the bike and watched the 5 minute smoke show that made my neighbor's house go bye bye. I thought someone was going to call the Fire Dept. 

I had to adjust the idle screw three times as it maxed out in revs...

When the smoke cleared I jumped on and took it for a ride. It pulled harder and ran smoother than it ever had under my ownership. I could get it to idle below 1000 rpms... though I set it just above.

I wasn't sure if the stuff would work but it does. Youtube "sea foam" and you'll see that sea foam is actually used and loved by many engine owners. Stuff's F.M.

F'n Magic. 

Eventually I might have to pull the carb... but as long as I have understanding neighbors, $5, and this damn laziness... I'm sea foam all the way.