 Engine Degreaser, What to cover up? |
 Mar 30, 2005 - 1:50 PM
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Enthusiast  Joined Apr 25, '03 From Miami, FL Currently Offline Reputation: 9 (100%)  |
My engine area is VERY dirty. There's a lot of dust and grease all over the place and I found a spray can of degreaser in the storage room of my house. The instructions say to spray everything and then turn the car on and leave it on for 10 minutes. It then says to turn it off and spray the whole thing with water to get the stuff off. How effective is the degreasing thing? Will I see a huge difference? My main concern is spraying the whole thing... I don't think I should spray the whole engine compartment. Some parts must be covered up before I spray the thing... What parts must I cover up that shouldn't get sprayed with degreaser and/or water???
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Mar 30, 2005 - 11:23 PM
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 Enthusiast Joined Feb 25, '04 From Fairfield, CA Currently Offline Reputation: 0 (0%) |
Believe it man, they actually HAD it running! The whole time I'm thinking "this doesn't look good..." A bunch of harness connectors are right on top next to the intake manifold, and after the check engine light came on, I started pulling them apart and finding tiny water droplets in them. I had to shoot them out with a can of pressurized air, and it took a lot of tries to finally get them all to the point where they wouldn't register error codes anymore. BTW, I think these OBDII readers are the coolest! A little expensive (more than the bent paperclip I use to check codes on my celica) but I like the standardized codes.
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JoKeRkId613 Engine Degreaser Mar 30, 2005 - 1:50 PM
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cmorty Yep that works just as well. I've detailed ... Apr 1, 2005 - 4:11 AM |
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