Best way to clean oil-stained asphalt driveway?

[Jand3rson]

My wife's last car, the Explorer (good riddance) hemorraged oil and power steering fluid almost constantly, and now there's a ungodly huge oil stain / dried pile of vital engine fluids on my asphalt driveway. I need to know the best way to get rid of it. I was thinking of renting a pressure washer and just blasting it off, does anyone have any ideas?

[hamann318is]

The pressure washer should do it. God knows how much stuff that gets off of our's.

[Charlie]

How do you see it if it is asphalt?

That being said, pressure washer and some CLR-type solvent would do it.

-Charlie

[uofom3]

castrol super clean... CONCENTRATED, and with a wire brush... all will be well... the degreaser would work fine, but they also make castrol super clean concrete cleaner ;)... it kicks ass

[DSchultz325e]

Yea. Get some plastic wrap, gasoline from the station, and some Tide powder detergent. Have an new oil pan so you can make a mixture of these two together. Mix the Tide in the gasoline until you get a sort of paste, then rub the paste along the stain until it is completely covered. Cover the entire thing with plastic wrap and secure it with weights or what have you. If you let this bake in the sun for a day or two, it should lift up a large portion of the stain.

[Jand3rson]

How do you see it if it is asphalt?

That being said, pressure washer and some CLR-type solvent would do it.

-Charlie

It's old asphalt, Charlie. Not very black.

[KenC]

Just use a 6hp power washer.

[Addissimo]

Just use a 6hp power washer.

It's old asphalt, Charlie. Not very black.

he'll still want a drive way when hes done with it...

[boom-monkey]

Our 11hp Pressure Washer starts to peel concrete with the right nozzle. So I'd say screw the chemicals and man up.

[Jand3rson]

Just use a 6hp power washer.

It's old asphalt, Charlie. Not very black.

he'll still want a drive way when hes done with it...

Well, it's not like 30 years old... It's just not jet-black.

Boom-Monkey, thanks for the info.

[BahnE30]

ether, will work miracles. and if it's a warm day it'll cool your hands off nicely.....

put the ether on it, it'll lift it and about 30 seconds later pressure wash. ether evaporates quite rapidly. so move fast. if you just use the pressure washer the oil will still keep showing through.

[M-technik-3]

Yea. Get some plastic wrap, gasoline from the station, and some Tide powder detergent. Have an new oil pan so you can make a mixture of these two together. Mix the Tide in the gasoline until you get a sort of paste, then rub the paste along the stain until it is completely covered. Cover the entire thing with plastic wrap and secure it with weights or what have you. If you let this bake in the sun for a day or two, it should lift up a large portion of the stain.

sounds like a formula for a b-o-m-b.... aka the how to make one at home.

[Charlie]

Yea. Get some plastic wrap, gasoline from the station, and some Tide powder detergent. Have an new oil pan so you can make a mixture of these two together. Mix the Tide in the gasoline until you get a sort of paste, then rub the paste along the stain until it is completely covered. Cover the entire thing with plastic wrap and secure it with weights or what have you. If you let this bake in the sun for a day or two, it should lift up a large portion of the stain.

sounds like a formula for a b-o-m-b.... aka the how to make one at home.

I was just about to say that, add in some styrofoam and he's got homemade napalm, perhaps some drano..

Wait, I'm under investigation for a lifestyle TS..I can't be saying this.

Don't be a dumbass and try those kids.

-Charlie

[Matto]

Somebody told me to use coca cola to clean oil off the driveway once.

[M-technik-3]

Somebody told me to use coca cola to clean oil off the driveway once.

strips rust off bolts if they sit in a bottle long enough.