Cleaning donor Parts
 

What do you guys think is best for cleaning the engine and gearbox etc? gunk, jizer or anything else?

Gunk is pretty good, alot of it depends on how far you want to go u cant beat a full strip down and wash then rebuild.

just wanna clean the gearbox so it looks good and the engine so i can paint it:)

I used Gunk to clean my donor parts, brushed it on , left it a while then wire brushed everything, came up a treat, dried it then painted it....looks the business :D

mind you tho, watch out for splashes, it hurts like hell in the eyes :eek: :rolleyes: ... i soon started wearing goggles after that :o

cheers
andy

Personaly, I never use anything else but Jizer

Jizer will wash away with water nicely & will air dry very well.

Never been a big fan of Gunk .... Mind you I have not tried it for years & the formulation may have changed since then :confused:

Parafin ( Kerosene ) Used to be popular with us older folks :o


These day's, I remove the worst of the grime with a scraper, brush well with Jizer & leave for 20-30 mins, give another good brush with Jizer & then give it a good going over with the pressure washer ( A garden hose will do ).
When I am in a hurry, i'll blow dry with compessed air. ;)

If you are ultra lucky & have access to a steam cleaner, with the right detergents parts will come out super clean :)

I used a wire cup brush in a drill to clean up my gearbox and it worked nicely. I guess adding some cleaning fluid would help no end.

TT

I used parafin to get it clean (so i had thought), when i got all my parts back from my local engineering firm, they had steam cleaned all the parts, what a deference that had made.

I have a little portable steam cleaner, but it is rubbish although it does a good job it would take the rest of the year to do just the gearbox and it's not that oily, just 20 years of road dirt

you can buy jumbo electric toooth brushes for wheel cleaning, they may be a help. I used a Braun Barbie Pink toothbrush in combo with gunk and steam cleaning on a V6 I did in 2004.

TT

do you think the steam cleaner that halfords sell would be any good for the job after soaking the part in jizer/gunk?