Aeresol cleaner

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DusterDaddy

DusterDaddy

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Who makes an aeresol spray cleaner that can be used to clean minor oil leaks of a newly built and detailed motor? What's going to do the job but not wreck my paint?
Any help is appreciated
Thanks
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Simple green, any sort of brake cleaner will eat fresh paint. A few squirts of green stuff and a quick water rinse and paint will stay put. Dont use purple power or super clean, super clean lifted paint on my toolbox....
 
Saw a guy at a small town garage not long ago that had a spray cleaner that worked like brake cleaner, but it didn't eat fresh paint. It kinda worked like brake cleaner. Didn't think to ask what it was. Simple green or dawn in a spay bottle is cool tho
 
Uhh. Someone needs to state the obvious here. That's a great looking engine bay!!!!! Well done.
 
mccoymail said:
Uhh. Someone needs to state the obvious here. That's a great looking engine bay!!!!! Well done.
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Thanks. Not bad for a retired carpenter turned IT guy if I do say so myself. Still some stuff to do but it turned out as I had hoped. It's a low budget build with a nod to the stock look. I am planning on putting the flamethrower HEI module inside a Mopar ignition box and put the ballast resister in there for grins. I won't do any of that till I work all the bugs out.
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For cleaning in my engine bay I use Windex window cleaner, works for me.

I don't think the ballast in a box is a good idea. They tend to run very hot, so air moving around them, helps keep them half way kind of cool. On my ballast I use extra long mounting bolts, and put 5/16 nuts, in back of them for a spacer, and it keeps air moving all around them.
Buy the way nice engine bay. Me likeee.
 
Simple Green will not damage any paint surface anf is what I use. DO NOT use Royal Purple or Purple Power or any other product with the word Purple in it! You will be sorry.
 
barracudadave67 said:
For cleaning in my engine bay I use Windex window cleaner, works for me.

I don't think the ballast in a box is a good idea. They tend to run very hot, so air moving around them, helps keep them half way kind of cool. On my ballast I use extra long mounting bolts, and put 5/16 nuts, in back of them for a spacer, and it keeps air moving all around them.
Buy the way nice engine bay. Me likeee.
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He's going to be running the HEI, so the ballast resistor will be just for looks and not functional.
Just a guess.:D
 
TrailBeast said:
He's going to be running the HEI, so the ballast resistor will be just for looks and not functional.
Just a guess.:D
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I think barracudadave means it's not a good idea to put the HEI Module in the box, although he said ballast. I have the HEI on an aluminum plate now I don't see how the hollowed out Mopar ECU box will hurt anything....

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The ballast resistor gets friggin hot, thats how it dissapates its energy. Id leave it out if you need it at all, if you dont need it, no use hiding it. I like the HEI in the case but it needs a heat sink as you have and a GOOD ground on that plane. Very nice.....
 
I figure I'd have the ballast there for the purists, even though it wouldn't be doing anything....
 
DusterDaddy said:
I think barracudadave means it's not a good idea to put the HEI Module in the box, although he said ballast. I have the HEI on an aluminum plate now I don't see how the hollowed out Mopar ECU box will hurt anything....

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The HEI modules are inside a 200 degree distributor normally anyway, but as long as they have something to dissipate the heat to through conduction it should be fine.
 
My bad I thought he was putting the ballast in a box also, But I see now where he is just using it for a stock look.
 
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