Originally posted by Jason King:
It will only clean out your heads and mostlikely will trip your CEL. SMALL AMOUNTS OF WATER! One of those lil bottled water jugs with the spout top (or gatorade) at a time. If you need your intake cleaned this will not work. What happens is it runs into your motor, on the compression swing it turns to steam and steam cleans your combustion chamber, valves, and exhaust ports.
[b]BE CAREFUL you can disloge large carbon particles causing big problems, hydrolock the motor, and clogg your cat's doing this.[/b]
I undersatand this.
its a 1978 - no such thing as a CEL
the polution controls are this fixed main jet in the carburator and thats it. no EGR, no sensors, no cat, nothing just a carb and an ignition system with pipes to carry the exhaust out.
The old iron engines of yesteryear aren't as finickey and delicate as the advanced aluminum engines of today. Its an old pig, made to work and thats it, uses lots of gas, 8 mpg on a good day. Has toruble going over 65, but will drag 22,000 pound cement blocks at 2mph like they are hay bails.
