[s-cars] cleaing the engine bay

[Matt Molyneux]

I have a pretty clean engine bay but I didn't use a hose to wash it. I tried
that once before and ended up with a failed POS due to the "steam" that came
off of the engine parts. If you know how much those things cost, you'll
think twice about spraying water in there.

I first cleaned it using an entire tube of Armor-All cleaning wipes (for all
the metal, hoses, plastic, and rubber), and then made all the plastic look
like new using a few Armor-All protectant wipes. The hoses all look great
now and are probably less prone to cracking as a result. It takes an hour or
two to do it all, but after you do it once, you only need to spend about 10
min going over the major stuff every car wash to keep it that way.

On 10/5/05, forrest bradshaw <sola4est at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> I've seen some clean engine bays from listers and am wondering
> what are recomndations for cleaning out the engine bay, mine is fairly
> dirty and I am contemplating power washing it at the car wash. or should I
> use a degriming agent and then carefully rinse it off.
> got some dirt caked in the lower parts.
> just want er ta bling inside too
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Matt Molyneux
Washington, D.C.
1995 UrS6
MTM Stage 1+, EDU 6-speed