Johnny Knoxville

Need to clean up my cylinder head but i'm too lazy to scrub it with a brush and cleaner

Is there anything i can leave it in over night to get it clean ( costic soda? )

No i don't have a dish washer BTW.

SumpNut

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Mr Muscle oven cleaner, the foaming stuff. It eats the carbon buildups on valves/exhaust ports for breakfast. It also does a kick ass job in general over grimey/oily surfaces.

Just dont expose your hands to it for too long, the last time I cleaned a turbocharger I ended up with yellow finger nails for a couple of weeks afterwards.

Lee_R21Turbo

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Nip into your local resturant & whack it in one of their dishwashers then!! PMSL!!

Charlie Chalk

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Pay someone to do it.

Trist

clean the flat surface by putting a load of valve grinding paste on a peice of glass an rub the head over it in a figure of 8

Johnny Knoxville

Sweet thank you


Pay someone to do it? someone said to get it acid dipped but i think that would eat away at the aluminum.

biglee

wheel acid, if you can get some from a local valeter or sumit... i let my cvh head sit in it over nite and it was minty mint the next morning, then came the jet wash

Johnny Knoxville

How long did you leave it on there for?

SumpNut

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Not long mate, i scrub it as it foams and then wash it off so its probably only on there for 10 mins max.

Another cheap but solution is to buy brick acid - its similar to wheel cleaning stuff but cheaper and available in all DIY type stores. It might be sold as industrial driveway cleaner. Its very strong, you need some sort of container that it wont melt and then leave it in to soak. Beware I've been told it can damage aluminum if left for too long, ive only used brick acid on cast iron blocks/heads before.

-beefy-

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pop don to your local paint supply store , buy a 25 liter drum of thinners ,

cheap plasitc storage box big enough for your head ,

fill till its coverd ,

leave in the box over night and hey presto , no scrubbing needed ,


will even take the burn oil stains on the head ,

just cover the box with a lid , tends to evaporate ,


beef

Johnny Knoxville

Thinners melts some plastics doesn't it?

Oranoco

Dishwasher. Just make sure the missus is out first or you'll get shouted at

rst cabbie

done one a few years bask put it coca cola came up like new all theoil and crap just fell of

rst cabbie

done one a few years back i put it in coca cola came up like new and all the oil and crap just fell of mate

ben_frst

always wanted to try that was told it works a treat lol the cheaper the coke the better

rst in breaking

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i took my old one to a steam cleaner, bit of truck wash, brush, steam it then air line it dry

JamesR1

50/50 TFR and water, leave it to soak for a hour then jet wash it. Worked for me no problems.