Alloy Cleaner

[corollaart]

Hi can any recommend a good cleaner for alloy, like gear box housings.

 

or heads etc,real groty and oily ones.Every bodys got one or more in

 

the shed :dance:

[trav_555]

degreaser works the goods for me :dance: get it from anywher i got mine from crazy clarks in a spray can for like 2 bucks

[coln72]

carby or brake cleaner for the win - just don't get it on your paint

[Budowski]

mag wheel cleaner after a degreaser for a final finish maybe

[JayJay]

theres a chemtech product called BLITZ thats a really good cleaner for alloy, comes ina 1 lt bottle , can get it at autobarns

[JiP]

carby or brake cleaner for the win - just don't get it on your paint

+1

[corollaart]

Thanks guys will try some of these,i tryed some new environment friendly degreaser it was rubbish.

 

Environmentally friendly is code for it doesnt work that great,unless you use 10 times the amount.

 

thanks again rob

[JiP]

Anything environmentally friendly that "Cleans" means you need to do alot of manual scrubbing.

[philbey]

Gasket Remover. Usually used to get crusty head gasket of heads and blocks, but I used it with great sucess to get a stack of oil and grime off a rocker cover the other day.

[marksKE25]

hey i have a friend that works for autologic, and their degreaser is the best i have ever come across, it cleaned all of the really dity oily stuff, however....

you can use it neat but it not advisable, as if you leave alloy to soak in it, it will melt it and neat.

 

cleaning products

[coln72]

hey i have a friend that works for autologic, and their degreaser is the best i have ever come across, it cleaned all of the really dity oily stuff, however....

you can use it neat but it not advisable, as if you leave alloy to soak in it, it will melt it and neat.

 

cleaning products

 

 

Holy shit - dissolving the alloy!!!!!!!! mmm lightened alloy components for the win :no2:

[philbey]

Yeh alkaline/caustic substances will eat Aluminium (shouldn't call it Alloy - Steel is an alloy too!)

 

I'm not sure what the gasket remover was, It must be aluminium compatible because of the number of aluminium blocks/heads out there. Do a test patch with whatever stripper you use, it'll be fine!

[coln72]

Yeh alkaline/caustic substances will eat Aluminium (shouldn't call it Alloy - Steel is an alloy too!)

 

I'm not sure what the gasket remover was, It must be aluminium compatible because of the number of aluminium blocks/heads out there. Do a test patch with whatever stripper you use, it'll be fine!

 

Me bad - as a metallurgist by qualification I got lazy.

[Trev]

Sugar soap apparently does the same job as mag wheel cleaner and there is a product from the sierra range called DMA or something.

[superbmobile]

quality degreaser and pressure washer can't go wrong..