hot tank after honing?

[Henchman]

I cleaned the intake off my old SHO (big arrangement for those who don't know) but we lived in an apartment at the time and I did not have access to a pressure washer, altho it just occured to me know, 10 years later that I could have taken the intake to the self car wash.

Next time,

Ian

[sdwarf36]

I've worked for 20++ years as an automotive machinist-currently building mainly hi dollar vintage race motors. what I do is use acatone or paint thinner and clean paper towels. I wet the towel-wipe in a circular (following crosshatch) pattern. do this a couple of times untill you can take a fresh towel and see nothing  on it. I have used the hot water + dishsoap  method (works fine-just make sure you wipe it down with wd 40 after) or just used wd 40 + keep wiping till a clean one show no residue( might take 3 or 4 times).

[monomer]

What kind of tide? Liquid, powder?

Powder, you mix it into a paste and brush it in. I completely forgot about this old school trick. It cleans hands awesomely after a day in the shop. There is one catch though, you know where all your cuts and scratches are.

Yup.



I knew the machineshop I dropped the block at to get machined was ok - I saw a box of tide sitting on the windowsill when I walked in.

[Rabbit on Roids]

Water plus TIDE laundry detergent



TIDE is high in phosphates and clean nicely. It's a nice little trick I learned from my shop's tolken mopar guy.

use that in your radiator too when you blow a head gasket. the granules kinda scour the radiator and clean it spotless too!