Anyone used Auto Glym engine cleaner?

Mattbigwood · Post by **Mattbigwood** » Thu Sep 18, 2014 12:38 pm

I bought a bottle off Amazon as it has good reviews to clean up the engine bay of my Lude as it is a bit oily and generally dirty. The instructions say spray it on, rub it round with a brush, then hose off. I'm a bit concerned about the hosing part though in terms of getting electrics wet. Any advice?

Post by **lewd lude lover** » Thu Sep 18, 2014 2:42 pm

imho just get in there with a few little wire brushes and a pot of petrol and then pressure wash the whole thing.

General guideline is to cover the obvious electrics with a bag and go steady. Dont douse anything obviously not wanting to get wet and make sure the engine up the temp to evaporate residual off nice and fast.

Mattbigwood · Post by **Mattbigwood** » Thu Sep 18, 2014 2:54 pm

Cheers, I thought I might try a hose instead of a pressure washer as I can't do as much damage with a hose (I hope).

Post by **lewd lude lover** » Thu Sep 18, 2014 2:57 pm

you put down about 1/20th of the water with a pressure washer though. hose is a massive amount of water and only rinces off. pressure washer is minimal water and removes much dirt...

pressurewasher is safer imho but if it ends up clean and it still starts its counted as a win

Post by **Donald** » Thu Sep 18, 2014 3:35 pm

^this, bubbles reduce density but are very effective. Less water more action baby.

Post by **Asacei** » Thu Sep 18, 2014 6:40 pm

I recently used Autoglym Machine Clean and one of those handheld steam cleaners to good effect on a particularly oily/greasy/caked in general nastyness gearbox.

Not sure how different the Machine clean is from the engine cleaner though

Mattbigwood · Post by **Mattbigwood** » Thu Sep 18, 2014 8:31 pm

Asacei wrote:

Cheers - the bottle is labelled Engine/ Machine Cleaner so I guess it is the same stuff.

CARRisma · Post by **CARRisma** » Sat Sep 20, 2014 1:46 pm

White spirits / turps & paint brush.

farlow · Post by **farlow** » Sat Sep 20, 2014 8:03 pm

I used a water based degreaser diluted with water in a spray bottle, work it in with a paint brush then pressure wash it off. Definitely need to cover the electrics though and don't use the pressure washer on the rocker cover, sounds obvious but I found out the hard way and my aerodeck developed a misfire. I got water in my spark plug hole and frazzled one of my kv85's

Post by **Donald** » Sat Sep 20, 2014 8:26 pm

From another thread:

Donald wrote:
SPYDOR wrote:Depending on the material and/or coating of the exhaust tip you ideally want some strong cleaners and a scouring pad or some steel-wool if it is bad as you need to get rid of the build up before you start polishing the exhaust
Something easily obtainable and cheap... such as trisodium phosphate will remove most carbon residues 8 tablespoons to 5l of water should be the right proportions to make a fairly strong cleaner IIRC, some people bump it with some bleach too (approx. 250ml). Just don't get it on your skin, eyes or clothes as it's pretty alkaline and it will do damage I don't want the blame for anything going wrong, it is a tried and tested method though.

Excellent degreaser but no blame if you drokk something up please