Solvent for cleaning oil pump and oil screen

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Hilderbrand1983

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The FSM on my 1967 Dodge Dart (slant-6 225cid) says that, after removing my oil pump and oil screen from the engine, I should soak them in "solvent."

What kind of solvent are they talking about? Any brands you'd recommend?
 
I brush apply gasoline to remove most of the gunk from any carbon covered parts, then a final spray cleaning with carb cleaner. I once had a parts cleaning tank with a pump, and bought bulk solvent five gallons at a time from NAPA, but it didn't seem to work any better than gas. The water based material I tried the last time was nearly useless.

I don't do enough cleaning now to justify a tank, and I'm sure the EPA has outlawed all effective solvents for home use, so I do it the simple way.
 
I burn the screen clean with a cutting torch. Oxy' blow trigger pulled, not to cut, just flame blast.
 
Mineral Spirits for cleaning (less stink than gas) followed by brake clean(dries fast)

P.S. Love the 67 Dart.Owned 3 of them over the years. All slants,my favorite !
 
any cleaning agent that is banned from sale in commiefornia should do the trick
 
The FSM on my 1967 Dodge Dart (slant-6 225cid) says that, after removing my oil pump and oil screen from the engine, I should soak them in "solvent."

What kind of solvent are they talking about? Any brands you'd recommend?

You may want to replace the oil pump with a new unit. I have great success with that Purple cleaner from Casto. The same guys that make the oil products. It's biodegradable, effective and rinses with water. If you live in a cold climate, warm the parts and solvent up. It works better when warm. A final rinse with brake cleaner helps too.
 
Soaking in purple power seems to work OK if you're patient, kerosene works for Me followed buy brake clean, carb clean for stubborn stuff.
If you have a bunch of parts to clean, see how much a local mach. shop will hit you
for puttin' them all in the tank/cabinet, then pick 'em up.
 
Be sure to pick any pieces of valve stem seals, timing gear pieces and left over chunks of RTV and old gasket material out from under the tin cover on the pick up tube.
 
Yeah, ^^^^ do the rattle test after cleaning the pickup.Tap it on the work bench a few times,,If when you shake it and hear rattles,,it's not clean yet.
 
Be sure to pick any pieces of valve stem seals, timing gear pieces and left over chunks of RTV and old gasket material out from under the tin cover on the pick up tube.
Yeah, definitely. When I removed it from the block and turned it upside-down, hard stuff started falling out of the pickup. It wasn't pieces of machinery, just old junk.
 
I agree with many posters on here regarding various chemicals that will work well including gasoline, kerosene, mineral spirits, laquer thinner, etc. The thing I would ad is dwell time in the solvent. Let it soak! I've found soaking it for 24 hours does a lot to soften hard deposits for removal.
 
I agree with many posters on here regarding various chemicals that will work well including gasoline, kerosene, mineral spirits, laquer thinner, etc. The thing I would ad is dwell time in the solvent. Let it soak! I've found soaking it for 24 hours does a lot to soften hard deposits for removal.
I ended up soaking it in oven cleaner overnight two different times, and that seemed to do the trick!

Personally, I'm much too nervous about using gasoline as a cleaning agent. It's far too volatile for me. I thank everyone for their feedback, but I found that oven cleaner did what I needed to be done. Easy-Off pretty well gave it the hot-tank treatment sans the hot tank.
 
I'm a big fan of oven cleaner myself for removing heavy gunge buildup. Easy -off is the best. Some of the generic substitutes just aren't as good.
 
Oven cleaner does wonders.This stuff wouldn't come off with a jack hammer..Oven cleaner overnight loosened it right up.

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