Thread: 258 breather/pvc blow by problem

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Originally Posted by MelloYello

FWIW, he's gonna sell it ASAP but wanted to try and trouble shoot this first - - - - - One more QUESTION if I may inject it here - - - - WHAT DEGREASER do Y'all recommend for cleaning up this kind of mess????

Em

IMO, the easiest is to drive into a bay of your local spray it yourself car wash, put a plastic bag over the distributor and duct tape it, and let high pressure hot soapy water do the trick, but in some places you may want to do it later in the night, when they don't have an operator there. Lots of them have a "degreaser" setting (which tells you they have a grease trap on their drain), but spraying it down with Simple Green, Purple Power or something like that, and letting it soak for five or ten minutes works, too. You can do much the same thing with a pressure washer in your driveway, but it's cold water and you'll have all of the greasy mess to deal with.

Originally Posted by rspears

IMO, the easiest is to drive into a bay of your local spray it yourself car wash, put a plastic bag over the distributor and duct tape it, and let high pressure hot soapy water do the trick, but in some places you may want to do it later in the night, when they don't have an operator there.

Reminds me of a older guy, who tried to strip paint off a International truck in the 70's, put a slurry of lye and water on it, drove it 10 miles to a out of town car wash and plugged the drains with all the paint that came off, somebody came by and asked what he was doing and he said " This things got to much pressure, its blowing off all my paint" He swears he drove it home in bare metal afterwards. (I tried it on a enamel paint job out of desperation but it did nothing but heat up my sheet metal)