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best way to clean engine compartment?
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WOW Green that Simple Green stuff is AWESOME !!!
I cleaned the engine bay this weekend with the stuff and I couldn't be happier. I didn't have any Armor All at the time, but hopefully this weekend I'll get some and spray everything down. Do I have to watch what I spray with the Armor All, or do I just blast away?
Thanks again for the tip !!!
I cleaned the engine bay this weekend with the stuff and I couldn't be happier. I didn't have any Armor All at the time, but hopefully this weekend I'll get some and spray everything down. Do I have to watch what I spray with the Armor All, or do I just blast away?
Thanks again for the tip !!!
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Not a problem man. I would say stay away from the belt so you don't get any squealling and stay off of the electrical. Never tried that myself though so IDK. Oh and that stuff is just as good in your house for heavy duty cleaning and not all stinky like bleach and ammonia and other sh*t like that.
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Speaking of car washes. I found a little trick that works on most car washes.
If you got a old sub laying around or anything with a huge magnet on it take it up to the car wash and slide it across the coin hole in a sideways or up and down motion. If its a digital car wash that shows you the time, then it will start beeping and should give you like 80 mins to wash your car, dont go over 100 or it will error out and reset. If the car wash is not digital and just has a coin slot with no time limit, just keep moving the magnet back and forth like 5 times and it should be enough to clean your truck and your friends cars lol.
Some places this works and others it doesnt, depends on the carwash and how strong the magnet is. Just go around and search for ones, ive found about 5 with in like 25 miles of my house.
That way you can sit there and clean your engine for an hour if you want, and get it looking perfect for $0.
I clean my engine with the tire/engine cleaner its green goop, and i let it sit and then i wash it off with high pressure rinse, and then some spot free rinse. and walla its done.
EDIT: O ya you dont need the whole damn subwoffer, just break off the magnet on the back and you can use that. We where just jacking around one day and smashed a sub into 4 peices and we all took a magnet and the damn magnet so strong it can do alot of things. Just get a nice powerful magnet and thats all you need.
Also when i wash my truck its useally never running. While i do the engine bay. So meh?
If you got a old sub laying around or anything with a huge magnet on it take it up to the car wash and slide it across the coin hole in a sideways or up and down motion. If its a digital car wash that shows you the time, then it will start beeping and should give you like 80 mins to wash your car, dont go over 100 or it will error out and reset. If the car wash is not digital and just has a coin slot with no time limit, just keep moving the magnet back and forth like 5 times and it should be enough to clean your truck and your friends cars lol.
Some places this works and others it doesnt, depends on the carwash and how strong the magnet is. Just go around and search for ones, ive found about 5 with in like 25 miles of my house.
That way you can sit there and clean your engine for an hour if you want, and get it looking perfect for $0.
I clean my engine with the tire/engine cleaner its green goop, and i let it sit and then i wash it off with high pressure rinse, and then some spot free rinse. and walla its done.
EDIT: O ya you dont need the whole damn subwoffer, just break off the magnet on the back and you can use that. We where just jacking around one day and smashed a sub into 4 peices and we all took a magnet and the damn magnet so strong it can do alot of things. Just get a nice powerful magnet and thats all you need.
Also when i wash my truck its useally never running. While i do the engine bay. So meh?
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Most things that need quaters to run, have a little piece inside of them that goes up and down when a dime, quater, nickle or w/e hits it. the magnet moves that peice up and down without the use of change. Thats who it works,
if you get a big enough magnet you can also do it with coke machines, and anything else that uses change to operate.
if you get a big enough magnet you can also do it with coke machines, and anything else that uses change to operate.
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Well, I gave it a shot .... kinda.
I had a pretty busy weekend this weekend ( I was in a wedding ) so I didn't have a ton of time, but I DID try it on a newspaper box. I don't know if it just didn't work there or what, but i DID hear something clicking around when I moved the magnet around. I'm REALLY dieing to try this trick out now !!!
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I had a pretty busy weekend this weekend ( I was in a wedding ) so I didn't have a ton of time, but I DID try it on a newspaper box. I don't know if it just didn't work there or what, but i DID hear something clicking around when I moved the magnet around. I'm REALLY dieing to try this trick out now !!!
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