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alecvincent1234

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Afternoon All,

Quick questions, what do you all use to clean the head & block? i have bought a block off someone and he has covered it in some kind of sticky clear grease to stop it from rusting in storage. Would you simply just use brake cleaner and a cloth or is there something better?

Also i gave a lot of gasket left on the head, what do you wall use for this?

Cheers.


theoneeyedlizard

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Blade scrapes gasket material off nicely.

Any solvent will soften the grease.

In the 13's at last!.. Just


Joe C

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Thinners is good and cheap, bit fumy though

On 28th Aug, 2011 Kean said:
At the risk of being sigged...

Joe, do you have a photo of your tool?



http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/index.p...9064&lastpost=1

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Petrol. You will have to scrape the gaskets off


alecvincent1234

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Thanks Guys, is it worth buying a gasket scraper, or will say a wallpaper scraper do the same job?


Joe C

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Carlos Fandango

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I usually just use a stanley blade,

anything metal and sharp will do, wallpaper scraper, Ive also used the end of a steel rule before.

as the head and block are iron youve got to go some to damage them,

On 28th Aug, 2011 Kean said:
At the risk of being sigged...

Joe, do you have a photo of your tool?



http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/index.p...9064&lastpost=1

https://joe1977.imgbb.com/



alecvincent1234

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Thanks again!!


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I was out in makros the other day and saw a can of WD40 degreaser... hadn't seen it before.

Its great stuff, anything I've had to clean up so far with this came out pukka... I would recommend...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/WD-40-Specialist-5...r/dp/B006UCJ4S6

I paid £4.99 for a large can, not bad...


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I've got some solvent that you spray on crusty gaskets and leave it for a bit. Partially dissolves them, then they come of easily with a stanley blade.

On 11th Feb, 2015 robert said:
i tried putting soap on it , and heating it to brown , then slathered my new lube on it

*hehe!*


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as a general cleaner i use diesel in my parts tub works grate for getting the normal grease oil dirt thats sort of crap off it also leaves a nice rust preventing film being oil based and all

ive used paint thinners to clean my new inter cooler before fitting works grate thats was an idea sheared by a member = D


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Dishwasher!

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On 6th Dec, 2013 Mr Joshua said:
Dishwasher!


My missus would never clean engine bits!

If something is worth doing, it's worth doing half of.


Rob Gavin

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funnily I was just working out if I could plumb a dishwasher into the shed as a parts washer


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I have a Miele industrial dishwasher plumbed up with a closed loop. Washes with 80 degC, but are 220V 3-phase :) It are good, but not on alu, because it will create a gray shitlayer on everything. In the garage I have a parts washer with Clean-All. Good stuff :)

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Well that's it then, its the mother inlaws dishwasher filled with thinners while she's. Out Christmase shopping........ . . Sound advice if you like her. .not! . . Gets the lob done. . .lol

Edited by BENROSS on 6th Dec, 2013.





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