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shit to clean engine parts at home?

PostPosted: October 13th, 2011, 11:24 pm
by misk
just wondering what i should use to soak pistons and conrods in to clean off any carbon and what not?

Re: shit to clean engine parts at home?

PostPosted: October 14th, 2011, 6:11 am
by SLO4LT
Carby cleaner? or throttle body cleaner?

Re: shit to clean engine parts at home?

PostPosted: October 14th, 2011, 7:33 am
by NUT347
Brake cleaner.

shit to clean engine parts at home?

PostPosted: October 14th, 2011, 8:09 am
by apoc
I use high grade kero for oily bits, cleans them up good after a week or so. Not sure how it would go with carbon deposits...
Brake cleaner is good stuff though.

Re: shit to clean engine parts at home?

PostPosted: October 14th, 2011, 8:49 am
by AaronEF8
Kero works pretty good on carbon, use a parts cleaning brush or 40 old toothbrushes to loosen the carbon off after it's been soaking for a bit.
If you can find a servo with a kero pump it's under $2 a litre, **** buying bottles of it from Bunnings lol

Re: shit to clean engine parts at home?

PostPosted: October 14th, 2011, 10:12 am
by Parfrey
if you have heaps of carbon to move, gasket stripper does a mad job of it. Just don't get it on anything else lol.

shit to clean engine parts at home?

PostPosted: October 14th, 2011, 10:35 am
by apoc
AaronEF8 wrote:Kero works pretty good on carbon, use a parts cleaning brush or 40 old toothbrushes to loosen the carbon off after it's been soaking for a bit.
If you can find a servo with a kero pump it's under $2 a litre, **** buying bottles of it from Bunnings lol


Yeah it's quite expensive if you buy the little bottles lol.
We managed to get a couple of 44s of chopper fuel for nix, works well enough!

Edit: use a dish washing brush. Works sweet :)