cleaning engine

[57s98Camaro]

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by hockeyman:
I had a bad experience once with my 76 T/A back in 1991. It overheated one summer day, and I shut it off and poured cold tap water into the radiator because the coolant level was low...CRACK -went the block!
Yes, the engine was shut off, but that day I vowed to never pour anything cold onto/into a hot engine again. It was a hard lesson learned on my behalf. I was young and stupid, but that was a mistake I'll never repeat again.
Not saying that spraying cold water on a hot running engine will crack the block, but I dont want to take a chance like that again. ;)

-Marc<hr></blockquote>

Ahhhh, I was just going to say that might happen :/ Learn from this man, I'd rather ruin wires than crack the block.

[Ted]

Sam I completely agree with you. I beleive a lot of people give advice here and a lot of people take it thinking it's right. There's so much wrong advice here I try to help other's out. For example, I don't know if they came out with some special formulated simple green out now, but lots of people keep recommending simple green for engines, the regular simple green we used to use at my old jet maintenance job corroded the hell out of metal and ate paint off over time, maybee not at first, so I always tell people not to use it, at least go with spray nine. Simple green has been proven to corrode. I want to see our v6 community thrive, which is why i post here a lot and help others out with what I know. If I don't know much about something I don't answer, i only help with what I know a lot about. I've worked at a lot of jobs and right now i've been working at one of the best bodyshops in my county. I do 4-5 cars a day and they've been doing cars 20years the way I mentioned, it's not just one of my personal preferences. Probably total i've washed over about 100 car engine's this year at least, and i've never had a problem yet. So I just wanted to jump in before someone gave advice to leave their car off when washing their engine. Theres a good chance it won't start if you ruin a plugwire or a coilpack, and if you were at a doit yourself carwash or somewhere, it wouldn't be good. Especially for the guys who have wraparound manifolds. Just thought i'd give some right advice out there since I took a lot of wrong advice from this board before, live and learn I guess.

[ May 21, 2003: Message edited by: Ted ]</p>

[2K1Camaro428]

people people people. I have the best way of cleaning the whole engine compartment without the risk of cracking the block. But it will only work it you are not stingy.
1)go out and get a phone book
2)sit down in your favorite chair
3)find a place that rents steam cleaners
4)get 60 bucks and go rent the steam cleaner
5)open your hood and blast away

steam is hot so you wont crack the block and it will get all the grease and grime out from under the hood trust me i do it all the time and you cant even tell that my car has been driven