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How are you cleaning parts?
How are you guys cleaning the really grimey parts like suspension? I want to clean and paint my front crossmember and arms while it's apart. I don't have a sand blaster. Wire wheel?
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Re: How are you cleaning parts?
ive been using the foaming gunk parts cleaner and a pressure washer.
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Re: How are you cleaning parts?
putty knife, wire wheel, brake cleaner or Easy Off oven cleaner (yellow can) always worked for me.......
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Re: How are you cleaning parts?
Yeah,regular easy off or go to a detail shop and talk them out of some of their degreaser some kind of acid
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Re: How are you cleaning parts?
Easy Off and a power washer
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Re: How are you cleaning parts?
Wire brush, sandpaper, rag.
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Re: How are you cleaning parts?
scraper first, then oven cleaner, then power washer.
If you don't have a power washer, you can go to the coin op car wash... just clean up after yourself. |
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Re: How are you cleaning parts?
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Re: How are you cleaning parts?
"Grease Eater" works well to get the oily grease off the parts. Spray it on wait a while and hose or pressure wash it off. Some guys here are using it in their hot tanks to clean engine parts.
Costco usually has a good deal on it. It also works great to clean grease spots off garage floors and driveways and is biodegradable. |
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Re: How are you cleaning parts?
I just did my whole front suspension. I used a pressure washer with degreaser. Then i used brake cleaner, rag, putty knife, and a wire brush. If i would do it again, i know for the amount i spent in cleaning chemicals and rags, i could have had my stuff blasted locally. I know a lot of us are on a budget, but it's worth looking into.
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Re: How are you cleaning parts?
The oven cleaner is the trick as said before just scrape off the big chuncks first and then let sit out in the weather to remove all the oil residue off the metal. I sent my frame out to the blaster once the thing was cleaned they wouldn't take it with grease on it.
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Re: How are you cleaning parts?
scrapping, wire wheel, degreaser then pressure cleaned!!!!
lots of patience!!
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Re: How are you cleaning parts?
That's weird, i talked to a guy about soda blasting, he told me i could bring it as is no pre cleaning required.
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Re: How are you cleaning parts?
Super clean, wire wheel, and lots of rags.
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Re: How are you cleaning parts?
Hope this doesnt cause an issue....
But heres a good how to that a buddy of mine posted on another forum http://www.blazinlow.com/forum/showt...t=rust+removal
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Re: How are you cleaning parts?
dragginass, that looks really good. Effortless and effective! I still prefer something that takes less than a day.
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Re: How are you cleaning parts?
8 to 10 cans of 99 cent store oven degreaser, and a pressure washer. Takes a few applications but it works. May need a scraper in between applications.
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Re: How are you cleaning parts?
8 to 10 cans of degreaser....
or 3 to 4 cans of oven cleaner... try it... it works! |
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its all about the +6 inches
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Re: How are you cleaning parts?
I feel for you. I live in a semi crappy part of town, and the junk I see in the bays at the coin op always surprises me.
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Re: How are you cleaning parts?
i thought i had just about seen it all, until the other day i see a lady throw some quarters in the fragrance machine and commence to hose herself down with it! i didn't even want to go over and take a look at how bad she was. wow. sorry for the hijack.
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Re: How are you cleaning parts?
if i am gonna strip to metal to paint muratic acid but I DONT RECOMMEND it to others then i will hit it with phosphate of some kind..if i am dealing with rust i use this stuff. http://www.blulightning.com/
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Re: How are you cleaning parts?
Thanks for all the tips. I've used degreaser and a pressure washer but it didn't seem to do enough for me. Maybe I'm impatient. I'll try the oven cleaner.
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Re: How are you cleaning parts?
easy off the small parts and press washed i dipping my frame.
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