what's the best engine cleaner to use? My engine is a bit on the dirty side with old oil from a leaky gasket sat on the block. I'm wanting to clean it up, any recommendations?
Best Engine Degreaser/cleaner
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, Jul 14 2020 07:10 PM
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Posted 14 July 2020 - 07:27 PM
I use Gunk or good old petrol
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Posted 14 July 2020 - 07:30 PM
What sort of Drive have you got.. the products are great for lifting tarmac, as is petrol
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Posted 14 July 2020 - 07:35 PM
il be using the road..What sort of Drive have you got.. the products are great for lifting tarmac, as is petrol
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Posted 14 July 2020 - 07:58 PM
Petrol does the job for me, once you've cleaned the engine give the road a wash with a pale of water to disperse it, or just leave it to evaporate
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Posted 14 July 2020 - 08:03 PM
Petrol does the job for me, once you've cleaned the engine give the road a wash with a pale of water to disperse it, or just leave it to evaporate
Cheers for the advice, il give it a go.
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Posted 14 July 2020 - 08:17 PM
I have used a few bottles of elbow grease from home bargains. Very cheap and a great product.
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Posted 14 July 2020 - 08:28 PM
I have used a few bottles of elbow grease from home bargains. Very cheap and a great product.
Got plenty of that knocking about, the Mrs thinks she's mrs hinch!
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Posted 14 July 2020 - 08:49 PM
Jizer. It has a built in rust inhibitor too. Its ace.
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Posted 14 July 2020 - 10:16 PM
I use brake cleaner spray, we use this at work to clean surfaces on very well used diesel engines.
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Posted 15 July 2020 - 09:00 AM
Jizer. It has a built in rust inhibitor too. Its ace.
+1 for Jizer.
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Posted 15 July 2020 - 09:10 AM
I use paraffin from a garden centre for the heavy work, I recently found I had an old CarPlan engine cleaner aerosol which worked really well.
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Posted 15 July 2020 - 09:28 AM
Jizer. It has a built in rust inhibitor too. Its ace.
Jizer if I can get hold of some. Always was better than Gunk as it didn't leave a residue. Other alternatives are turps/white spirit/gunk. Always wash off afterwards with hot soapy water..
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Posted 15 July 2020 - 11:49 AM
No Nonsense degreaser from Screwfix . Put it in a garden pressure spray bottle ,spray it on leave it to soak in , then wash it off with warm soapy water . Stubborn areas use a stiff paint brush to work it in
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Posted 15 July 2020 - 06:31 PM
Oven cleaner ?
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