Cleaning my engine

[PHISH]

How do I get the grease off my white OMC? Not the components, but the outter shell. I know the cowl will be easy to clean and shine, but how about the lower unit? It has grease on it and black spots around the exhaust. What would take all that off fairly easy?

[Hot Shot Merc]

Black paint :D ;)

[pyro]

Straight gasoline! :D

[Boz]

Try a fire restoration shop. They will have a degreaser that'll choke you.

[Hottrucks]

Castrol Super clean get it at wally world $6 or so put in in a spray bottle give her a little and sponge it off, Spray with a ton of water to rinish. This stuff will peel the skin off your hand just ask me??

Also removes all your old wax so plan some time to redo that.
Works great on white walls/tires and for anything else you want to degrease I use it to degrease large truck engines and stuff like that best stuff I've tried

[The Big Al]

Simple Green!



Pyro, you crack my up!

[pyro]

Seriously! If it's oily residue, straight gas should clean it up, and it won't dissolve the paint like some of the strong solvent degreasers will.

By the way, Magic Eraser will take black grease and oil stains off vinyl using only water :D

I use lots of solvent chemicals at work. Of all the chemicals pictured below sitting on my workbench, I will always try the most gentle cleaner first, which would be the lighter fluid, V&PM Naptha is the same thing. Xylol (aka Xylene)would be the next stronger chemical. Goof-Off (re-labeled F**k-Off :D ) contains quite a bit of Xylol, as well as some other nastier solvents. Acetone may be certain death to your finish, watch out, it's blended into a lot of those strong cleaners.

I work with this stuff every day.

"These are a few of my favorite things."

EDIT: I was just noticing the can with the paintbrush in it against the wall, I decorated it with a marker when I was 5 years old. I was drawing speedboats with rooster tails. :D

[The Big Al]

Seriously! If it's oily residue, straight gas should clean it up, and it won't dissolve the paint like some of the strong solvent degreasers will.

By the way, Magic Eraser will take black grease and oil stains off vinyl using only water :D

Hey man, tell me about this MAGIC ERASER! I have a few spots on my seats.
Al

[jphii]

Big Al, go to Food Lion and check out the cleaning supplies isle. You'll see the different kinds of Magic Eraser. The stuff works great, and it's pretty cheap too.

[The Big Al]

thanks will give it a try, it will not hurt the vinyle ? correct?


Pyro scares me! LOL!!!!


I can't cpell this morning, (hell i can't spell anytime)

[jphii]

Pyro scares me! LOL!!!!



Now that's funny! No, it works great. I actually use a piece of it to clean the cartridge on my turntable. You can use it on just about anything.

[Scott Gilmore]

Seriously! If it's oily residue, straight gas should clean it up, and it won't dissolve the paint like some of the strong solvent degreasers will.

By the way, Magic Eraser will take black grease and oil stains off vinyl using only water :D

I use lots of solvent chemicals at work. Of all the chemicals pictured below sitting on my workbench, I will always try the most gentle cleaner first, which would be the lighter fluid, V&PM Naptha is the same thing. Xylol (aka Xylene)would be the next stronger chemical. Goof-Off (re-labeled F**k-Off :D ) contains quite a bit of Xylol, as well as some other nastier solvents. Acetone may be certain death to your finish, watch out, it's blended into a lot of those strong cleaners.

I work with this stuff every day.

"These are a few of my favorite things."

EDIT: I was just noticing the can with the paintbrush in it against the wall, I decorated it with a marker when I was 5 years old. I was drawing speedboats with rooster tails. :D

Pyro, glad to see someone FINALLY has a well stocked bar like me !! Don't drink too much of the 3-M products straight, they'll give you a nasty hangover !! Scott

[pyro]

The Eraser is nothing more than a chunk of extremely fine-textured lightweight foam, it acts like microscopic bristles, getting into the texture of the vinyl where rags, brushes and chemicals cannot. You saturate it with water and rub gently in SHORT, BRISK strokes. Basically, as you rub, each time you change direction it lifts dirt out of the surface. Even surfaces that feel smooth have microscopic textures that trap dirt, and this will get it out with only water.

It may dull the shine of the vinyl, but if you buff it with a dry cloth after it dries, the shine will come right back. Now the only problem is your seats will have a clean spot where the grease used to be, and you'll have to buy more Erasers to do the whole interior.

Remember: SHORT, quick, back-and-forth strokes, rub GENTLY, otherwise the eraser falls apart quickly. Use LOTS of water. Rinse and squeeze often, put a rag underneath to catch the runs.

It's a simple concept, and it works well.

As for the grease stains on the white motor, USE GAS!!!

[Alan Power]

How do I get the grease off my white OMC?

Isopropinol, it's meths without the dye!

[PHISH]

Thanks guys.

[Bruster]

Castrol Super clean get it at wally world $6 or so put in in a spray bottle give her a little and sponge it off, Spray with a ton of water to rinish. This stuff will peel the skin off your hand just ask me??

Also removes all your old wax so plan some time to redo that.
Works great on white walls/tires and for anything else you want to degrease I use it to degrease large truck engines and stuff like that best stuff I've tried


Super Clean is probably the best for cutting the grease, rinse well. You can dilute it about 100:1 and it's about the same as Simple Green. I like it @ 1:1 with water, It'll only take 1/2 of ths skin off of your fingers. :eek: Now if you want to burn the shop down, Pyro, has all the right stuff......

[YELLOWXD]

I heard that boat saver was the way to go but i ordered some months ago and they never sent it

[THE FAST ONE]

Gentle Super Concentrated Dawn,dishwashing Det.works On Me & Boat Mota,no Fooling,and Pyro It's Not Flamable! CUTS GREASE LIKE CRAZY :D Lol :d :d Lol--ed

[Ted Stryker]

I always use Simple Green, I haven't found that Super Clean cuts much better or at all and the Castrol can and will chalk aluminum up...Learned that the hard way on my Mustang, and it will also eat the clear finish off of a lot of aluminum products such as automtoive wheels.. Too many side effects and not enough benefits over Simple Green which is completely harmless to aluminum, clear coat or any plastics...Just my opinion..

[Jigsaw89]

brake cleaner

[pyro]

Brake cleaner is mostly Xylene and Acetone, it has a tendency to melt some types of paint.

[dma251]

I second that Magic Eraser recommendation. I've just started using them, but my dad owns a Fire restoration company, and he told me that 3M has offered that product to professionals for years. They just recently got into the consumer market.

These things will clean anything! I tried it out on the water stains on my mid-section, and the biggest problem is it makes things TOO clean! Once you start you have to keep going until everything is spotless!

Try it on a chrome faucet it the bathroom - it's unbelievable how well it cleans! (of course that domestic duty is delagated to my kids...)

[chris_lacey]

For the exhaust housing and gear case use "Gunk Engine Degreaser" from CTC. Spray it on (spray can), let it sit, hose it off with the hose. Dry with a clean cloth.
Magic Eraser is excellant on interior vinyl!