Delberts Wallet Posted June 19, 2001 Share Posted June 19, 2001 What is the best/easiest way of cleaing the engine and engine compartment. I have a pressure washer but I'm reluctant to to start pointing it anywhere near the engine just in case water goes into places it shouldn't Cheers Gareth I can get 4 people in my 7 wink.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre Gillet Posted June 19, 2001 Share Posted June 19, 2001 Try WD40 Cheers Pierre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elie boone Posted June 19, 2001 Share Posted June 19, 2001 There are products to degrease your engine or anything else. Just apply with a brush and hose with water, the product will become like milk (but will taste different)blow dry with an airgun and you get a clean engine. Sorry that i can't read the name on the can anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blatman Posted June 19, 2001 Share Posted June 19, 2001 I think Elie means either Jizer or Gunk. I use brake cleaner, from my local accessory shop. 15 quid for a gallon, and I spary it on with a garden spray gun from a gardening shop. The solvent rots the valve in the spray gun trigger, but at 99p, I can stand it! Any oil/grease or whatever that doesn't run off is wiped away very easily, and it leaves almost no residue. Oh yeah, a spray gun full will do the engine bay aproximately twice, depending on how dirty it gets (not very), so it is very cost effective, and nothing has rotted away yet. Some-one will probably pipe up and say that brake cleaner will rot something in there, or causes other problems or somesuch, (and I will learn something newthumbsup.gif), but as I say, so far so good. Edited by - Blatman on 19 Jun 2001 20:53:17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petrolhead Posted June 19, 2001 Share Posted June 19, 2001 Having used both Gunk and Jizer I would recomment Jizer. Gunk is horrible stuff and doesn't wash away as easy. If you want cheaper try parafin. Better to go in a blaze of glory than to fade away teeth.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHRIS CLARK Posted June 19, 2001 Share Posted June 19, 2001 Petrolhead. Having read your 'parafin' advice, I might add that you really need to wash it all off well or you may have a problem on your hands like your sign off; ie, blaze of glory!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul D Jones Posted June 20, 2001 Share Posted June 20, 2001 Before using any of the water based envior freindly cleaners try it out on a peice of scrap alloy sheet as a lot of then attack alloy and also leave bare steel and black bolts rusty I would use the paraffin option.About £2.50 fer 5 ltrs. Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Bees Posted June 20, 2001 Share Posted June 20, 2001 Jizer is a de-greaser. Jizered bare steel will begin to rust in no time at all, such is it's effectiveness. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westfield Posted June 21, 2001 Share Posted June 21, 2001 I like Gunk best. The smell after you start the engine when its clean reminds me of my BSA Gold Star…….. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted June 22, 2001 Share Posted June 22, 2001 Ahhh! Jizer....the Appetiser (hic!) [;-)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted June 22, 2001 Share Posted June 22, 2001 Sorry. When I said [;-)] I meant wink.gif. B****y smilies! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I.Mupferit Posted June 22, 2001 Share Posted June 22, 2001 Tony, such memories! Was it the 500 i.e. 70 in 1st gear? The sound from that distinctive silencer - pure magic!!!!!!!!!!! Oh God I'm really showing my age now. smile.gif Brent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Russell Posted June 22, 2001 Share Posted June 22, 2001 It wasn't just the silencer but that chest-thumping single cylinder, banging away that did it for me...............magical memories......where are they all now? When you think back,you realise just how lucky us 'oldies' really are, to have such wonderful machinery fixed in our memory banks!! Roll on Goodwood Festival of Speed.................more memories to be relived............. Andrew Edited by - Andrew Russell on 22 Jun 2001 16:06:05 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I.Mupferit Posted June 22, 2001 Share Posted June 22, 2001 Andrew yes you are right about the chest-thumping single cylinder which only seemed to fire every alternate telegraph pole! Ahhhhhh these youngsters don't realise just what they missed from the golden age of motoring. Which day are you going to Goodwood and are you going to the Revival meeting in September? I will be going with my 15 year old son who ONLY seems to like the current 18000 rpm screamers and doesn't know what an old Maser sounds like or a GT40 for that matter! That's it I am wallowing in pure nostalgia now!!!!!!!!!!!!smile.gif Brent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHRIS CLARK Posted June 22, 2001 Share Posted June 22, 2001 ........Work twenty seven hours a day, and pay mill owner to work there.............. Try tellin' the children of t'day that and they won't believe you, ay!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FH Posted June 22, 2001 Share Posted June 22, 2001 Get outta here young Chris wink.gif I'm hauling the smell of Castrol 'R'out of my memory banks teeth.gif Mr FH and I will be at the Revival - must remember to take the mothballs out of the sleeves of the mink a little sooner this year blush.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I.Mupferit Posted June 22, 2001 Share Posted June 22, 2001 AHHHHH FH At last we may get to meet dear lady. Glad to hear you are of the more genteel generation who appreciates the smell of Castrol 'R'. And Chris you have no idea what it was like to live in cardboard box int middle o't road! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FH Posted June 22, 2001 Share Posted June 22, 2001 At the risk of incurring the Wrath of Gareth - (a feature movie of some considerable gravitas) - I reply, dear Brent in the true spirit of one who has lived life to the full. blush.gif A convivial assignation in the presumed quagmire of what undoubtedly will be "Revival" seems most appropriate. We are presently undecided as to our chosen mode of vehicular transportation - one has to consider the hat box - but a Se7en will do admirably if the elements allow. FH wink.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHRIS CLARK Posted June 22, 2001 Share Posted June 22, 2001 Ay, and you'll have t' lick road clean wit' tongue!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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