Cleaning undercarriage
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Racer
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From: Pensacola Fl
Cleaning undercarriage
What is good to help remove the build up of crud underneath the car? My wife was under there with some simple green for a while and made some progress. Is there anything better to use?
Melting Slicks
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Simple Green is a really good degreaser. Gunk works well too, but I'd imagine just getting your wife under the car was enough of a herculean task without having her smell like a refinery too. If you have really thick crap to cut through get a jug of mineral spirits, put it in a spray bottle and scrub it in with a scotch-brite pad, then you can finish cleaning it with Simple Green or Gunk. If you can get your hands on a pressure washer that can take a lot of the elbow grease out of the job too.
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Racer
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From: Pensacola Fl
Originally Posted by birdsmith
Simple Green is a really good degreaser. Gunk works well too, but I'd imagine just getting your wife under the car was enough of a herculean task without having her smell like a refinery too.
Le Mans Master
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Non-lye type oven cleaner.
If your wife wants sidepipes, she might not know what oven cleaner is.
Easy-off in the blue can (fume free) to cut through the crud ... then simple green.
http://housekeeping.about.com/gi/dyn....easyoff.us%2F
A small power washer would help much after each cleaner has done it's job.
I didn't use this helpfull tip. I used kerosene with a scrub brush, followed by
Castrol super clean (purple stuff). Kerosene works well, but messy.
Castrol is a great (albeit corrosive) cleaner - don't breath it in (cough cough).
I had my body off - on a dolly and jacked up for the cleaning.
http://nhvette.homeunix.com/ftp/in/v...body_dolly.jpg
You can see the clean underside starting here, and other pix by changing the "01" to 02,03 .... 10.
http://nhvette.homeunix.com/ftp/in/v...n_belly_01.jpg
Not only clean, but I also applied POR15 (silver) to any exposed metal.
If your wife wants sidepipes, she might not know what oven cleaner is.
Easy-off in the blue can (fume free) to cut through the crud ... then simple green.
http://housekeeping.about.com/gi/dyn....easyoff.us%2F
A small power washer would help much after each cleaner has done it's job.
I didn't use this helpfull tip. I used kerosene with a scrub brush, followed by
Castrol super clean (purple stuff). Kerosene works well, but messy.
Castrol is a great (albeit corrosive) cleaner - don't breath it in (cough cough).
I had my body off - on a dolly and jacked up for the cleaning.
http://nhvette.homeunix.com/ftp/in/v...body_dolly.jpg
You can see the clean underside starting here, and other pix by changing the "01" to 02,03 .... 10.
http://nhvette.homeunix.com/ftp/in/v...n_belly_01.jpg
Not only clean, but I also applied POR15 (silver) to any exposed metal.
Last edited by NHvette; Jun 26, 2006 at 07:34 PM.
