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Little trick for cleaning parts on our 6.5's

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This is alittle experement I tried and it work way, way better than I had hoped for.
Basicaly I took a crawfish boiler (Big pot) and a propane burner and boiled my parts.
The crawfish boiler came with a big strainer for the pot. I bought it brand new for $35. Already had the burner.
I mixed 50/50 water and Purple Power. Let it come up to a raging boil for as long as you need.

If you add alittle tony's seasoning the parts don't taste that bad either.:D

The parts came out sqweeky clean. You can even do wire harnesses.
 
Sounds like a good idea!

You just have to always remember which pot is for oily parts and which one is for food. If not your food may have a little bit of a Diesel taste to it. ):h
 
Ive tried this once in the camper with a pot on the stove, didnt work to good.

On another forum there was a guy who took one of these and used it to boil water out of hydraulic fluid. I said are you going to dunk a turkey in it? He gave me a good lecture on how you cant use hydraulic fluid to deep fry a turkey. I guess the thought I was serious.
 
Good tip. I have used boiling water to rinse parts before and the really hot water evaporates nicely so rust and corrosion is not as bad as you would think.

How much of a rolling boil was it? I think the bubbles and heat do wonders on melting, cleaning the goo and crud. It would be nice to have a big sonic cleaner but the heat is the ticket I think.
 
schiker said:
Good tip. I have used boiling water to rinse parts before and the really hot water evaporates nicely so rust and corrosion is not as bad as you would think.

How much of a rolling boil was it? I think the bubbles and heat do wonders on melting, cleaning the goo and crud. It would be nice to have a big sonic cleaner but the heat is the ticket I think.
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I can only desribe it as a "raging boil" The parts are so hot when they came out they almost dry themself. The heat and agatation of the boiling made them perfectly clean

Turbine Doc said:
Oil is oil, only a "girly man" would worry if it had a tinge of Diesel fuel taste, heck tell folks that is the secret sauce :D
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Hell on the teeth though. :grin:

Michaeljp86 said:
Ive tried this once in the camper with a pot on the stove, didnt work to good.

On another forum there was a guy who took one of these and used it to boil water out of hydraulic fluid. I said are you going to dunk a turkey in it? He gave me a good lecture on how you cant use hydraulic fluid to deep fry a turkey. I guess the thought I was serious.
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I bet using Purple Power was the difference? With a propane burner made for boiling 10 gallons I was probably getting much hotter?? My parts were dirty, grimy. You know how valve cover bolts, intake bolts get? Made them look new again. I did all the internals of the engine also and they came out perfect
 
Another tip, when washing down your engine/enginebay, hook up to the drain on your hot water tank, makes the purple power or simple green work more better if using even just bathing temp hot water, plus you are supposed to open that drain from time to time to get out the sediment at the bottom of your HW tank but few ever do
 
Turbine Doc said:
Another tip, when washing down your engine/enginebay, hook up to the drain on your hot water tank, makes the purple power or simple green work more better if using even just bathing temp hot water, plus you are supposed to open that drain from time to time to get out the sediment at the bottom of your HW tank but few ever do
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Yep, good tip TD, :iagree:I've been doing this for years, -and yes, what a huge difference hot water makes.

I use a 25 foot air-rated hose (300 psi) and have an adapter I made up with brass parts from the plumbing section at depot. My adapter screws directly to the hose-bib and has a brass QD fitting on it for the air hose to plug into. I hook directly to the hot water hookup for my clothes washing machine. I use a standard air-nozzle on the end of the hose as a spray nozzle. I tend to run my gas water heater hotter than most (160F).

This trick coupled with some tide laundry detergent (and a scrub brush) works absolutely incredible for cleaning automotive carpets. The hot water does the trick (leather goves REQUIRED cause it gets HOT!), and a good shopvac to suck as much of the water back out as possible.

Cheap and accessible to anyone with a good water heater and who can screw a few brass fittings together.
 
When I tried to boil parts I used dawn dish soap, I doubt the little camper stove got as hot as that big cooker.
 
iv been thinking with the amount of leaked out oil in the enigne bay and the underside of my truck that i really need to get it clean so i can see where the leaks are coming from. plus iv started to notice the smell of raw diesel after the truck has been sitting for a while so i need to see where that is coming from as well. is wasing the engine of a diesel the same as washing a gasser( stay clear of alternator and intake) dumb question but its easier to ask then mess stuff up

ganna borough the hotsy machine from work to clean it all up with. anyone got any other sugestions on how to get 16 years of oil and grease off
 
chevyCowboy said:
iv been thinking with the amount of leaked out oil in the enigne bay and the underside of my truck that i really need to get it clean so i can see where the leaks are coming from. plus iv started to notice the smell of raw diesel after the truck has been sitting for a while so i need to see where that is coming from as well. is wasing the engine of a diesel the same as washing a gasser( stay clear of alternator and intake) dumb question but its easier to ask then mess stuff up

ganna borough the hotsy machine from work to clean it all up with. anyone got any other sugestions on how to get 16 years of oil and grease off
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Just did it myself actually. It took me about 5 times to get it as spotless as it can get. I used the Engine Degreser gel, let it sit for a while, then wipe it off with rags. Get plenty of rags. Do that a few times to get the bulk, then more engine degreaser and hot water. (Washing machine hot hooks right up to a garden hose).


After bulk is gone, then purple power, or similar works good. Again let it sit 15 mins or so, then either wipe with a rag then rinse, or rinse or whatever you want.

For the first few attemps I found it works better to rag off the bulk, vs spraying it with hot water just makes it a drippy messs for a while, and you can't really get in there. Plust the rag grabs it, and disposes of it all at once.

Compressed air helps get the crud out of the crevices and hard spots.

I actually recommend trying to blast off the grime first it may fly off in chunks. If you have a really high pressure air compressor with a really small and long blow gun, you can blast and poke at grime and it will fly off. Use safety glasses.

Lay cardboard down if you have some............

I did this over a 6 month time, but each time you do it, you're so impressed with the results you think its good. Then next time same thing... lol
 
If you guys blow all that greasy mess off then your trucks will rust.

In high school auto shop when a leaky car came in we would spray the engine/transmission with gunk then hook the powerwasher up to the hot water faucet. It worked great, I wish I had a car lift so I could do that.
 
ok ganna takle the dirty girl this weekend got some purple power and ganna hook up to the hot water line for the washer and run it all through my pressure washer (rememberd that the hotsy is wired for 250 3phase and i aint got that at home) are there any areas that i need to avoid with the P washer obviously the i dont want to spray directly into the alt or air filer but any thing i dont know about ???
 
Just be easy with it, don't blast anywhere near wiring harneses. Use it for the frame and diffs and stuff. I woulnd't blast the block all too much with it.
 
Michaeljp86 said:
If you guys blow all that greasy mess off then your trucks will rust.

In high school auto shop when a leaky car came in we would spray the engine/transmission with gunk then hook the powerwasher up to the hot water faucet. It worked great, I wish I had a car lift so I could do that.
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Clean engines run cooler :) After all the grime and crap is off. Then the rust inhibiting paint comesa into play.
 
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