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Guero

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Whats the the best stuff to clean your engine with?

 

urban96

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simple green and either a steam cleaner or pressure washer

 

stprorolla49

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a lotta people like to use simple green....i just took an old armor-all spray bottle or something like that and filled it like 1/4 way with car soap, and the rest with warm water...then closed it and shook it for a while to make a VERY concentrated solution....i found that this took off a LOT of **** that was hard to clean.....

 

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engine degreaser works well

 

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urban96 said:

simple green and either a steam cleaner or pressure washer

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if you use a steam cleaner be very careful. someone did that to mine when I bought it and water got into the distributor and killed the bearing in it. it also sure didn't help the idle pulley either as it went south about the same time.

 

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Steam cleaners are very bad to use, infact I've heard from sountless amounts of people that you should not use a steam cleaner for the reason listed above, and the steam will mess up some electronics.

Just spraying and hosing it off with simple green wont work, and neither will a pressure washer alone. Sure the pressure washer will get the dirt off, but if its oily/greasy then you'll have to scrub it with a degreaser. No easy way around it

 

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Gunks "engine bright" or http://www.autogeek.net/pbapc32.html
I loved it so much I purchased a gallon of it (All purpose cleaner). I have a concentrated bottle for the engine, and an 6:1 mix for cleaning my dash, carpet, and upolstry(sp?).

 

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sade04 said:

engine degreaser works well

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definately +1!!! that **** works awesome!!

 

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wytstang said:

Gunks "engine bright" or http://www.autogeek.net/pbapc32.html
I loved it so much I purchased a gallon of it (All purpose cleaner). I have a concentrated bottle for the engine, and an 6:1 mix for cleaning my dash, carpet, and upolstry(sp?).

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That link is for a Poorboys product.

 

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stprorolla49 said:

a lotta people like to use simple green....i just took an old armor-all spray bottle or something like that and filled it like 1/4 way with car soap, and the rest with warm water...then closed it and shook it for a while to make a VERY concentrated solution....i found that this took off a LOT of **** that was hard to clean.....

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since there was no degreasers at my house, i just did the same. It worked pretty dam good. and i didn't even have to worry bout it getting on the paint.im always scared its gonna **** up the paint.

 

stprorolla49

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Guero said:

since there was no degreasers at my house, i just did the same. It worked pretty dam good. and i didn't even have to worry bout it getting on the paint.im always scared its gonna **** up the paint.

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exactly!!! i use it on the apint sometimes too

 

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5.0_GT_kid said:

That link is for a Poorboys product.

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That is correct Poorboys world APC (all purpose cleaner). Cleanes your tires, engine, dash, seats (leather and cloth), and carpet. All you have to is dilute it to meet your needs.