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Best way to clean engine

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Looking at spring cleaning the old girl. Was thinking of giving the engine a good going over try and bring it back to new. I've always used petrol gunk and a good old tooth brush and plenty of elbow.

Not looking to polish up just get rid of crap and bits of corrosion

Any suggestions ?

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Post by furnster »

A dremmel and a wire wheel is good for clean inning corrosion off mate :)
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Post by Archangel »

I used Gunk on mine last weekend.took a hose to wash it off and took a lot of the paint off too! ( Black engine) made it look worse than when it was dirty.... :(
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The best way to clean my engine, I found, was to get my man to do it as it's a nasty horrible job :D

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