2006 EZ Go TXT exhaust

[ThatGuyJake]

Originally Posted by rutro

Just a thought here........ I've been messing arround with small engines all my life. Lately it's been v-6 Mercury boat motors, big 2-cycle carb boat motors. They can carbon up real bad at times and that causes a multitude of problems. I'm just wondering if that's what is going on with some of these 4-cycle cart motas. Since they decided to up the ethanol in our fuel bad things have been happening to the boat motors because of phase separation when untreated fuel sets to long. But that should not affect the 4-cycle motas as bad. What I've learned though is to treat all fuel with a stabilizer and to run some SeaFoam in the boat gas to remove the carbon build up from the heads and rings. Made my ol'Merc run like a new motor. The carbon build up can hurt the 4-cycle motors also. Cause valves to not seat right and sticky rings are never good. Like I said ........ just a thought.
As I was posting this it occured to me that I have a 4-cycle motor that needs to be de-carbed on a regular basis. It's the Onan generator motor in the motorhome. It's a two cylinder 4-cycle carb. motor that is governed for speed so that it runs the same rpm under a varring load. Does this sound familiar.......... It's got a muffler that has a half inch plug in it that needs to be removed every so often to blow the carbon build up out. Then it's got to be fogged with a de-carb spray to clean the heads and rings.........

I don't have much experience with small engines, but I was thinking carbon build up was my problem. Can I run SeaFoam in my cart? I'm wondering if I could add my own plug to my stock muffler? I adjusted my valves...they weren't too far off and it didn't help much. Now that its winter and I have my windshield up...the problem/smell is amplified by 10. Would like to get this remedied, for sure.

[rvkersh]

Seafoam is good stuff, a little the gas will clean pretty much the whole fuel system. It does do a good job removing carbon.

[Chrisdupuis24]

Where can you buy Seafoam. At any outboard dealer?.

[ThatGuyJake]

I found it at tractor supply, Kmart, wal-mart, etc...something you start finding everywhere once you learn about it.