natehall
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| posted on 4/7/06 at 11:23 PM |
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Engine cleaning
Ok, i have the engine almost leak free 
when i finish the job on either thursday or friday, i want to give the engine a bit of a cleanup and a degrease, as i want to be able to spot any
future leaks before the drive gets them 
so basically - does anyone have any tips on cleaning a very greasy/dirty twink?
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Arthur Dent
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| posted on 4/7/06 at 11:26 PM |
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Take a screw driver or something and scrap off the worst sludge. Then use a degreaser after that.
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wrong goes wrong, it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.' Douglas Adams
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stevebubs
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| posted on 4/7/06 at 11:26 PM |
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Steam...
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bimbleuk
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| posted on 5/7/06 at 05:46 AM |
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Further to cleaning the block. Any good products for cleaning the ally bits? I've got a set ot throttle bodies to clean but don't want to
completely disassemble them as they're nicely balanced at the mo.
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Prez
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| posted on 5/7/06 at 06:28 AM |
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I've always found that cream cleaner is good for degreasing components (the sort you use for cleaning an oven), it's really cheap and does
the job quite well with a bit of elbow grease. You have to take care with aluminium components, if you leave it on too long it will start to eat the
aluminium. That said I managed to clean up an aluminium cylinder head with it with no problems. Just be careful with aluminium!
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RazMan
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| posted on 5/7/06 at 06:59 AM |
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Alloy wheel cleaner for the the alluminium bits followed by a pressure wash. 
Cheers,
Raz
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andyharding
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| posted on 5/7/06 at 08:38 AM |
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White Spirit or Paraffin is the best degreaser I've found. For less severe cases use Autoglym Engine Cleaner.
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Bluemoon
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| posted on 5/7/06 at 09:02 AM |
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Paraffin is what we used, a brush, scrapper and ellbo grease... worked a treat..
But once you have striped all the oil fixed the oil leaks expect it to rust in places, oil leaks have there uses...
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Monkeybasher
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| posted on 5/7/06 at 12:01 PM |
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Nothing beats MR muscle oven cleaner, superb at cleaning engines, gearboxs, etc. Its not too bad at ovens either.
Where gloves though cause the stuff burns your skin leaving it dry and red.
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natehall
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| posted on 5/7/06 at 02:43 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Bluemoon
Paraffin is what we used, a brush, scrapper and ellbo grease... worked a treat..
But once you have striped all the oil fixed the oil leaks expect it to rust in places, oil leaks have there uses...
i know a slow drip has its usages, but it was doing a gallon a week a few weeks ago, got it down to a gallon a month atm, aiming for a figure around a
litre a month, that will suit me 
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coozer
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| posted on 5/7/06 at 06:13 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Monkeybasher
Nothing beats MR muscle oven cleaner, superb at cleaning engines, gearboxs, etc. Its not too bad at ovens either.
Where gloves though cause the stuff burns your skin leaving it dry and red.
My hands are aleady red, dry and flaky. If I dont use gloves will they end more red, bloody with no flaking?
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1980 Z750
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fully sideways
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| posted on 13/7/06 at 06:17 PM |
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I have always washed my engines with petrol and a brush ... followed with some precision parts cleaner...
and this is now the part when everyone tells me the error of my ways ..
Andrew
Is throttle wide open ?
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RoadkillUK
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| posted on 14/7/06 at 11:41 AM |
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We've cleaned ours (and the chassis) so many times, damn that leaky Crossflow. We use degreaser and a pressure washer, does a cracking job.
Roadkill - Lee
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Hellfire
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| posted on 14/7/06 at 01:38 PM |
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Don't bother cleaning it. Get it ripped out and weighed in for the scrap value and stick a shiny new bike engine in it. 
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fully sideways
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| posted on 14/7/06 at 02:25 PM |
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what would you want to do that for ??
Car engines get to go faster around corners !
Is throttle wide open ?
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