Engine Degreaser.. the good stuff?

[Skunkworks]

Zep purple and a cheap round toilet brush. are what i use.

Get a brush with less than a 1/2" SHAFT. cut the handle off and put the brush in a 1/2" cordless drill.

Wax the fenders and leave it on.

Spray ZEP full strength, and start brushing away on everything in sight.

hose off and repeat untill clean.

This brush works flawlessly for bottlecaps.

[E30Jigzaw]

Try easy off oven cleaner works great on gunk ...

[Skunkworks]

Try easy off oven cleaner works great on gunk ...

Bad on Paint,Plastic,metal,Dialectric grease.

[AndrewBird]

Mineral spirits works very well. It's what I use in the solvent tank and will eat through any kind of oil-based gunk. Won't hurt your hands either as it is essentially just oil.

[Onizukachan]

Try easy off oven cleaner works great on gunk ...

Ditto on the oven cleaner. EZoff. not the low smell version either.
It's about all that will work when you have a ton of old dirt encrusted gunk. Add in some old carpet scraps as scrubbing pads, or a nylon brush and you can have it cleaned up and looking factory fresh in no time.

After rinsing with water, follow up with simple green.

As mentioned it isn't particularly great for SHINY paint, but if you wax, and get some on the fenders just rinse it off in a minute or two. It isn't going to make the paint suddenly bubble up and slide off like aircraft stripper... geez. at worst you'd merely have to rewax b/c it took some of the wax off.

I used to take my suspension apart and do the wheel wells with it to get rid of all the gunky buildup once a year.


it never hurt my aluminum parts, plastics, etc, and i've been doing it for 20 years.

[5Toes]

I like CRC brake clean. engine degreaser is always disappointing.

I've got an oil pan I need cleaned, it's so nasty that neither simple green, purple power, nor brake cleaner would even break the surface. it's from Germany. So much for the Germans taking better care of their cars.. hah!

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[Timp]

I don't mean to hijack this thread, but what exactly does one do about the runoff created from using degreaser? For example, it was suggested that I spray down my entire engine block in nearly straight simple green/purple power/whatever and hose it down. While I did this, I noticed the greasy water just making it's way down the driveway, and then into a storm drain.

Often these cleaners are listed as 'biodegradable', but what about the crap that comes off with it? Don't storm drains go directly into natural sources of water?

Not wanting to guilt anyone about degreasing in the driveway as I've done it plenty of times - just genuinely curious.

[Onizukachan]

let the city worry about it... and no, generally they do not go directly to water anymore.
if they do they are supposed to be be labeled as such.

[strang3majik]

It flows down to the energy drink factory. They can it, unfiltered, and sell it to you at a premium rate.

Explains the taste and effects anyhow.

[Hey_You]

It flows down to the energy drink factory. They can it, unfiltered, and sell it to you at a premium rate.

Explains the taste and effects anyhow.

I think I have been drinking someone elses waste, because I'm sure RedLine oil would taste better...although, it does have a correlation with RedLine energy drinks

[Vivek]

I don't mean to hijack this thread, but what exactly does one do about the runoff created from using degreaser? For example, it was suggested that I spray down my entire engine block in nearly straight simple green/purple power/whatever and hose it down. While I did this, I noticed the greasy water just making it's way down the driveway, and then into a storm drain.

Often these cleaners are listed as 'biodegradable', but what about the crap that comes off with it? Don't storm drains go directly into natural sources of water?

Not wanting to guilt anyone about degreasing in the driveway as I've done it plenty of times - just genuinely curious.

I wouldn't worry about it. Even years and years of caked on grime is nothing compared to pouring a quart of oil down a drain. And it'll be a few fluid ounces at most diluted in gallons and gallons of water flowing down the drain.

[slammin.e28]

Heavy duty oven cleaner and a power washer.

[SlamedIAm]

let the city worry about it... and no, generally they do not go directly to water anymore.
if they do they are supposed to be be labeled as such.

That's a ridiculous stance to take. It is the city's responsibility to clean up your mess? What ever happened to personal accountability?

[E30 Memorial]

If you don't care what it does to the paint, glass or rubber parts almost anything works great. If you don't want it to do damage to the car, driveway, fish or sperm check out Oil Eater. Works great and available at Costco.

http://www.oileater.com/Household.html

[Robotin]

no, get that purple power cleaner stuff at like the 99cents store. shit works like magic.

then JW welb the whole.