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#24 ·
I wouldn't recommend high pressure water since you could be forcing it into places it shouldn't be. Just a regular hose to clean off the dirt, some rubber gloves, something like a sponge, and a lot of simple green will do the trick. Then when everything is nice and dry shine up the rubber hoses with protectant.
 

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#25 ·
I'm lucky because this coming wednesday i have a motor going in my car. So while it's out, i get to put in motor mounts, remove A/C, put on my PC'd VC, and PC my intake manny. And oh yeah, CLEAN CLEAN CLEAN!

It's going to suck, but i'm going to try to make that bay clean enough to eat off of.
 
#26 ·
I put plastic bags over the battery terminals, intake, and alternator to make sure I didn't f-up any of those...only thing I had afterwards was a squeaky pulley for like 10 miles, then it was gone.

I'm free today, so a friend of mine (he owes me haha) offered to help me clean it today...we'll see how that goes.
 
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..also wouldn't hurt none if you shoot the bay at the car wash, or at home using a Jenny steam engine pressure washer...get a face shield on as well. Cuz, when that spray hits galleys and angles and fires back at you, you gonna get a face full of gunk, or at least another hair wash that you didn't want.
 
#29 ·
i just covered the intake, BOV, and alternator and sprayed with engine clean then high pressure spray......i didn't bother waiting for the car 2 cool down.....lots a smoke from the side hot parts!!!....but it worked fine...no craked block......im guessing because its iron block...maybe if the block was aluminum it would crack
 
#30 ·
I need to get around to this as well. I like the Simple Green idea. On my previous cars I would use the orange Gunk product. Which worked ok. I don't have a good camera but I can take before and after pics when I get around to this. Thanks for all the tips.
 
#32 ·
I cant stand when my engine bay is dirty, I clean it more than I clean my room hahahaha.
I use my old tooth brush and degreaser and it works just fine. I have a pic in my gallery but its at night :[.
 
#36 ·
2nd try, When I first got it,
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Then after some cleaning, using Simple Green, pressure washer, oven cleaner (yes, oven cleaner) on the vc (with vc removed) and a little paint. Still working on cleaning it.
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Oh, I did remove the alt to glassbead and paint. Put new brushes
in it while it was apart.
 
#40 ·
Thanks for the praises, I've had it for about 5 months. It sat with the po for 5 years, he / they couldn't get it to crank, but after 2 weeks and a computer and a cas, it fired right up. Yea, I changed ALL the fluids first, including dropping the gas tank.
 
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