I've heard you're supposed to cover the distributer and alternator. Is this
true? No one has mentioned doing it yet. Just wondering. I still do it by
hand/hose/sponge, no high pressure washer for my engine, given my luck. :-)
Later,
Robert
Tony Sarro wrote:
> Well I recently just clean the engine on my 91 at a local self carwash
> place. It has a special setting for engine degreaser it .75 and I sprayed
> at everywhere under the hood. Then another .75 for the the rinse with a
> good pressure washer and that was it engine came out looking great. No
> problem starting up and going home. But like john said make sure you let it
> cool down.
>
> Tony Sarro
> tonyms@acadiacom.net
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Casall <jcasall@yahoo.com>
> To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
> Date: Sunday, May 03, 1998 8:33 PM
> Subject: DML: Clean my engine!!
>
> ><What is the best way to clean the exterior of my engine and the
> >engine compartment? I've got a lot of mud in there from a little
> >playin' around.>
> >
> >I won't claim this is the best way, but I do it all the time. I wash
> >my truck first (so the engine cools off-despite having driven only 100
> >feet) and then spray one of those engine degreasers everywhere if
> >memory serves me, the stuff made by Gunk is what I use and it works
> >good (cheap and comes in big cans) then I spray everthing off. Never
> >had a problem with truck starting or water getting where it shouldn't.
> > This is a very dusty place (Lubbock TX) and it works well on
> >loosening caked on dust and dirt-gets dirty in places that aren't even
> >oily! If you just hose it off, you'll most likely end up with dirt
> >all over the grease and oil.(would probaly wnat to hose off most of
> >the mud before using the Gunk though)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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-- Mailto:rotrottmann@davidson.edu http://thelma.davidson.edu/rotrottmann/web/default.htm Davidson, NC- Now St. Louis, MO- May 19th 95 Sport 318 Auto 2WD
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