Engine Bay Cleaning/Cosmoline Removal

[15Michaeljoseph]

Ah, sarcasm doesn't come across well in text form.

I'm still looking for something to get this junk off!

My B, i shoulda used a winkie


--Mike

[Panici]

Ah, sarcasm doesn't come across well in text form.

I'm still looking for something to get this junk off!

[15Michaeljoseph]

Wouldn't that strip the paint as well?

I was joking... although maybe they've got some kind of acid that you could get the intake and VC dipped in that would take it off. but


--Mike

[Panici]

+1, only way is acid


--Mike

Wouldn't that strip the paint as well?

[15Michaeljoseph]

Lol... No. You can soak this 25 year old cosmoline for a week in mineral spirits, it won't do shit. Neither will simple green, purple stuff or foaming gunk.

+1, only way is acid


--Mike

[StereoInstaller1]

Lol... No. You can soak this 25 year old cosmoline for a week in mineral spirits, it won't do shit. Neither will simple green, purple stuff or foaming gunk.

[AwakenNoMore]

Natural mineral spirits cut through cosmoline like butter, its what I used to clear the cosmo from my Mosin Nagant, it was well slathered in it.

[Panici]

Sorry to bump an old thread, but my Engine bay is filthy. This cosmoline has to go.

Have you guys found anything that can be sprayed on, and then rinsed off? Engine Degreaser?

[Thizzelle]

it's weird, my 87 325e doesn't have it, my 89 M3 doesn't have it but my cars from 91 both have it.

[Bearmw]

Some day some one will be bragging at a car show that they have the oldest most pristine looking cosmoline.

[susej1981]

IMO for me not worth getting the pricey zymol I'd need gallons of it to do my engine bay

I've tried a steamer and it didn't do shit, the water vapors just danced on top of the cosmoline. acetone on a rag works but it's tedious and you'll probably go insane and high sniffing it all day scrubbing it off

at car meets my engine bay stays hidden no need to embarrass myself with my yellowed ugly cosmocrapped m20

[GThomas]

Did the Zymol ever work?

Ehh not so much.

[browntown]

On the perpetual to do list now that the engine is out of the bay, is to fire up my little wagner steam cleaner and see what it does to the cosmoline/grunge from hell.

[modir93]

Did the Zymol ever work?

[moto650]

" A useful method of cleaning a tool of crusted cosmoline is to allow a penetrating oil (such as WD-40, CRC 5-56, or equivalent) to soak into it for several minutes or hours, which typically restores it to a viscous-fluid state, allowing it to be wiped off " source
Wonder if that works? I've always used zip strip, but of course that also removes any paint.