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Big Seafoam OOPS, 79 300TD

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Ok, so my last car was a gas VW Jetta and when I got it, it had an incredibly dirty intake manifold. I did a few seafoam treatments through the vacuum lines and it worked miracles.

I just got a '79 300td (non-turbo) and there's been a lot of blow-by. The air filter and housing is full of dark oil, and the car smokes much more than it should.
My thought was that since I was dealing with a similar problem, I would turn to a similar solution. I sucked a half a can of seafoam through the thin vacuum line coming off of the thick one that leads to the brake booster.

Since the big cloud of smoke didn't come out afterwards I just started to look up Seafoam treatments on these vehicles and found all this scary stuff about hydro-lock. Yikes.

I've only driven about 1/2 mile since doing the treatment, but I'm supposed to be driving almost 300 miles tomorrow (hence the desire to clean out the intake before getting on the road).
SO! Did I fuck things up? What do I do to fix it?
Also, how can I clean out the intake manifold? Will seafoam in the fuel do the trick?

Thanks
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What do you mean by, "take it slowly"?
You mean take it easy driving with the engine, or??
No, he means push the car uphill with the engine off real slowly.
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