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Clive
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« on: April 28, 2013, 08:06:48 PM »
Anyone got any top tips for removing excessive carbon build up in engine parts?
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« Reply #1 on: April 28, 2013, 08:23:00 PM »
blunt scraper ,, or sometimes good old  ,coke a, cola works  Wink
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« Reply #2 on: April 28, 2013, 08:35:32 PM »
Cheers buddy, can't get a scraper in there, it's a heat riser on a VW engine!
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« Reply #3 on: April 28, 2013, 08:57:42 PM »
If it's steel soak it in caustic.
Always good to remove carbon.
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« Reply #4 on: April 28, 2013, 09:26:53 PM »
It's had four lots of caustic soda mix in it so far!!!!!!
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« Reply #5 on: April 28, 2013, 09:28:52 PM »
But for how long,It does take time.
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« Reply #6 on: April 29, 2013, 06:05:15 AM »
Overnight each time!
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« Reply #7 on: April 29, 2013, 06:39:04 AM »
If the carbon is very oily the caustic doesn't always work well. On two stroke exhausts we used to burn the oil off first with a blow torch.
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« Reply #8 on: April 29, 2013, 07:55:21 AM »
Quote from: Old Newbie on April 29, 2013, 06:39:04 AM
If the carbon is very oily the caustic doesn't always work well. On two stroke exhausts we used to burn the oil off first with a blow torch.

Yep that's exactly what we used to do in the day.

But it you send your two stroke ex to a plating company they will soak it in hot caustic for day's,
Maybe a week,They must be clean before they will put them in the tanks.
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