cleaning engine
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Charlie Sheen
Armed and Hammered
Natural1
all around duguder
I use Castrol Super Clean, it works well. I spray the entire engine and engine bay with this stuff. I let it sit on the cool engine and bay for a minute or so. Next, I rinse the whole thing off with a common hose nozzle. I lightly wipe everything with STP "Son of a Gun." I have cleaned all my vehicles like this and never had a single problem. Once you coat everything with the STP, it will collect dirt but that dirt will simply wash off with water and not require the cleaner for quite some time.
psycho bob
FISTER
i'm stealing this from a member on another forum. not sure how you all are about posting other forums websites so this is how i am doing it. this is really quite easy the only actual hands on you will be doing is wiping everything down with a rag afterwards..........
Rather than tie up Animals painted parts thread with engine bay cleaning stuff, here's a quick way to take that daily driven engine bay to show room look with minimal effort:
Best way ever is the following, take it for what it's worth, it's tried and true..
Products needed: Simple Green, Turtle Wax F-21 tire dressing, several rags.
Here's a link to F21 so you know what it looks like:
http://www.turtlewax.com/main.taf?p=2,1,3,5
Here's the simple green for those that have never used it:
http://www.simplegreen.com/products_...se_cleaner.php
Start engine, get it warm, not hot, just nice and warm. As an example if the car was fully cooled, run it for 5-8 minutes. Turn off engine.
Cover the alternator and air filter on your intake, Aluminum foil works great since the motor is warm. Everything else can be subject to light rinsing type spray, including the covered fuse panel. All of these areas get hit by water when driven in the rain.
Lightly spray entire engine bay with water from hose, you will see some light steaming, this is good.
Spray the entire engine bay, including firewall, plastic parts, metal parts, loom, coils and hoses with Simple Green. Set the hood down, not fully closed, just to it's safety catch point, and go find something else to do for 15 to 20 minutes. Let the simple green do it's work. Closing the hood let's the simple green interact with the steam you created with the warm motor. This loosens the tough stuff up so you don't have to work so hard in those heavily soiled areas.
Open hood, look for heavily soiled areas, wipe them with a rag, use more simple green if necessary. Rinse lightly with hose.
Spray entire engine bay with F-21, it foams, coat everything just like the simple green coating you did.
Close hood again, walk away for 10-20 minutes or until nearly all the foam has dissipated.
Open hood, Wipe up any areas that water settled and such. Wipe up any areas that the F-21 didn't dissipate on it's own.
You will note that the F-21 restores the black plastic parts to the same oem flat black color they were when new.. It leaves the paint shiney with no streaks on the fenders and fire wall. Best of all, it is not greasey to the touch.
Rather than tie up Animals painted parts thread with engine bay cleaning stuff, here's a quick way to take that daily driven engine bay to show room look with minimal effort:
Best way ever is the following, take it for what it's worth, it's tried and true..
Products needed: Simple Green, Turtle Wax F-21 tire dressing, several rags.
Here's a link to F21 so you know what it looks like:
http://www.turtlewax.com/main.taf?p=2,1,3,5
Here's the simple green for those that have never used it:
http://www.simplegreen.com/products_...se_cleaner.php
Start engine, get it warm, not hot, just nice and warm. As an example if the car was fully cooled, run it for 5-8 minutes. Turn off engine.
Cover the alternator and air filter on your intake, Aluminum foil works great since the motor is warm. Everything else can be subject to light rinsing type spray, including the covered fuse panel. All of these areas get hit by water when driven in the rain.
Lightly spray entire engine bay with water from hose, you will see some light steaming, this is good.
Spray the entire engine bay, including firewall, plastic parts, metal parts, loom, coils and hoses with Simple Green. Set the hood down, not fully closed, just to it's safety catch point, and go find something else to do for 15 to 20 minutes. Let the simple green do it's work. Closing the hood let's the simple green interact with the steam you created with the warm motor. This loosens the tough stuff up so you don't have to work so hard in those heavily soiled areas.
Open hood, look for heavily soiled areas, wipe them with a rag, use more simple green if necessary. Rinse lightly with hose.
Spray entire engine bay with F-21, it foams, coat everything just like the simple green coating you did.
Close hood again, walk away for 10-20 minutes or until nearly all the foam has dissipated.
Open hood, Wipe up any areas that water settled and such. Wipe up any areas that the F-21 didn't dissipate on it's own.
You will note that the F-21 restores the black plastic parts to the same oem flat black color they were when new.. It leaves the paint shiney with no streaks on the fenders and fire wall. Best of all, it is not greasey to the touch.
luckyone
Member
^^^simple green is what I use also. Man that stuff works great. Then just follow it up with some armor all on the black plastic and it will look great.
psycho bob
FISTER
i've never liked armor all. leaves everything greasy attracting dust and dirt
Steedman07
Classified's Moderator:)
I use purple power diluted 50% with water on a warm engine..I also use F-21 and my engine comes out perfect..
I moved it here to help you get more help. That tech racer crowd doesn't know much about keeping their engine clean.
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