DaveEscos

is a steam cleaner the best way to clean the oil and grease from an engine?

Physio

Yes but make sure you cover the electrics up propperly (dizzy etc) Oh & use Gunk

Rick

Meant to be good, uvr used pressure washer too which works very well

DaveEscos

reading up pn the net, seems its not so

apparently Paraffin is the best way to clean ?

Physio

Well, you learn summat new everyday! Gold star for you Dave

S1

Ive always used parraffin. Its only a couple of quid at the most for a gallon and works much better than gunk.

Ginge !

now thats a fooking good post, as im gonna remove ALOT of oil from mine ,

is there a way i can clean it all back up, drain it and use again too

cossymad

or diesel

Ryan

red deisel, nice and cheap too

Jon ERST S2

I used gunk on mine and jet washer worked really well.

RobS

iTrader: (3)

ive used petrol and a paint brush works ok

BillyCabrio

iTrader: (1)

Best to use a proper steam pressure washer and not a run of the mill cold water jobbie.

But yeah Gunk or diesel works well.

Turbo lag

I wouldn't go anywere near my engine bay with a steam cleaner
I just used a gunk copy.

Dave.

K500BHP

i used halfords stuff and managed to take off most or the paint from my rocker cover
but also bought a small steam cleaner off sky about a year ago and that works fine just takes forever

Anonymous

1 match
1 tin of toluene

PGT

cover electric bits (ign amp / coil / map sensor / the connectors for these things) soak it in gunk or similar - leave a couple of hours then blast the c**t with a high pressure washer (wearing eye protection) leave the other sensors (crank pos / temp / etc) for 3 hours, and hey presto, the moisture in the air will have cuased rust to start, but no oil present!