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Message started by MotoBuddha on 12/05/10 at 12:54:29

Title: How can I clean this?
Post by MotoBuddha on 12/05/10 at 12:54:29

There's crud down in the head, including around the spark plug hole. What's a good way to clean it up? I already scraped a lot out with a screwdriver wrapped in shop rags.

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Title: Re: How can I clean this?
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 12/05/10 at 14:19:17

& how are you protecting it from stuff falling in the plug hole?

Title: Re: How can I clean this?
Post by splash07 on 12/05/10 at 14:19:51

I suggest simply breaking the whole jug down then thouroughly soaking the parts in a degreaser and presher washing em clean. then maybe a fast spraydown in the bead blaster and a coat of flat black engine paint before reassembly. Then the next time she is dirty it wont be as noticeable and it will be alittle easier to clean.

Title: Re: How can I clean this?
Post by Oldfeller on 12/05/10 at 14:23:50

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Scan down the post, this is not the first time this has happened.

Title: Re: How can I clean this?
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 12/05/10 at 14:24:20

So? Who cares, its a machine, get it runnin & Ride it.

Title: Re: How can I clean this?
Post by spacepirates on 12/05/10 at 16:08:43

243B3D3A2720112111293B377C4E0 wrote:

So? Who cares, its a machine, get it runnin & Ride it.

everyone knows that bikes run faster/better after a nice wash and wax ;)

Title: Re: How can I clean this?
Post by 12Bravo on 12/05/10 at 16:39:11

626170727461786370657462110 wrote:

[quote author=243B3D3A2720112111293B377C4E0 link=1291582469/0#4 date=1291587860]So? Who cares, its a machine, get it runnin & Ride it.

everyone knows that bikes run faster/better after a nice wash and wax ;)[/quote]
Yes but those dirt seals are hard to come by ;D

Title: Re: How can I clean this?
Post by Boofer on 12/05/10 at 16:53:56

Put a spark plug in that hole! Now, that that's fixed I'd just spray some dollar store engine cleaner on it and hose it down after covering up the cam and valves. OR use Dawn dishwashing liquid. Use about 75/25 mix with water being the 25. Let it set overnight. Mild and works great. And quit putting the scary pics on here with crud about to fall in the cylinder. :'(

Title: Re: How can I clean this?
Post by MotoBuddha on 12/05/10 at 17:04:46

The head and cylinder are coming off anyway.

Title: Re: How can I clean this?
Post by MotoBuddha on 12/05/10 at 17:07:34

5C4345425F5869596951434F04360 wrote:

So? Who cares, its a machine, get it runnin & Ride it.

Because I'm going to paint it.

And because it's easier to tell if something is leaking if it isn't already covered in crud.

And because I like clean things.

Title: Re: How can I clean this?
Post by Boofer on 12/05/10 at 17:18:44

Thanks for gettin' back to me. I feel better now.

Title: Re: How can I clean this?
Post by bill67 on 12/05/10 at 18:13:48

Wal Mart has a bicycle chain cleaner that real good for cleaning off dirt and oil.Its in a spray can.White Lightning Easy Clean.

Title: Re: How can I clean this?
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 12/05/10 at 19:43:58

Cool, if that head is still on the engine, how are you keepin stuff outta the spark plug h=ole?

Title: Re: How can I clean this?
Post by MotoBuddha on 12/06/10 at 05:06:14

57484E4954536252625A48440F3D0 wrote:

Cool, if that head is still on the engine, how are you keepin stuff outta the spark plug h=ole?

Magic.

Title: Re: How can I clean this?
Post by justin_o_guy2 on 12/06/10 at 05:27:43

Good, long as nothing goes in there, it'll be cool.

Title: Re: How can I clean this?
Post by Routy on 12/06/10 at 05:45:50

Its so hard to stay outta stuff like this, but I know I should,....because I have to be missing something :-/

But if the head is coming off anyway, why are we worried about cleaning it now. Wouldn't we wait till the head is off, then either spray it w/ carb cleaner, or if you want it bare alumunium, take it uptown and have a commercial "hot tank" it ? But here I am again, ...back to logical thinking,.....I should know better by now. ::)

Title: Re: How can I clean this?
Post by MotoBuddha on 12/06/10 at 06:23:51

I asked now because the situation presented itself now. Sure, it can wait, but I'd still need to know how to clean it. And sometimes it takes a while to get a viable answer. Better to have the answer now than to be waiting for it later.

Title: Re: How can I clean this?
Post by Boofer on 12/06/10 at 16:22:44

MB, Answers come fast and furious on here. But the Truth...well that's a different matter. ;)

Title: Re: How can I clean this?
Post by MotoBuddha on 12/06/10 at 17:19:55

Ain't that the truth.

Title: Re: How can I clean this?
Post by Routy on 12/07/10 at 06:27:57

Truth ?? Next time say so !
Ok, find a pot in the kitchen big enough to submerge the head in,...yeah, the crab pot will do it.
Dump a couple cups of your favorite laundry soap into it, fill it w/ water, stick it on the crab pot burner, or a burner on an electric range works best, and bring it to 180 degrees, and let it set 6-12 hrs, then hose it off.
DON'T use caustic soda in the pot... on aluminum ! It will start foaming, and your head will be a lb or 2 lighter in 8 hrs :o But caustic soda works great on any steel or cast iron.
Oh yeah, I used to have a rental hot tank business years ago. I had 2 types of tanks, 1 for aluminum (kinda like tide soap only different) and the other for steel (caustic soda)
Well, story was,... this one customer mistakenly hung 8 rods and pistons on a wire in his caustic soda tank overnite, removed nothing but the rods in the morning!!
Highly exaggerated for the story I know, but it did ruin the pistons :'(

Title: Re: How can I clean this?
Post by serenity3743 on 12/07/10 at 07:56:09

775A5A535047350 wrote:

But the Truth...well that's a different matter. ;)

"YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!" - Jack Nicholson in "A Few Good Men" ;D

Title: Re: How can I clean this?
Post by Boofer on 12/07/10 at 17:52:12

Serenity, I have been put in my place. And I never saw it comin'. :-[

Title: Re: How can I clean this?
Post by stinger on 12/08/10 at 10:06:40

spray it with some oven degreas r then just hose it off

Title: Re: How can I clean this?
Post by Boofer on 12/09/10 at 16:18:29

stinger, oven cleaner is sodium hydroxide (lye). It can etch the aluminum and make it porous which, in turn, makes it harder to clean. Someone used it on my daughter's TRX 300. Ugly motor. Runs fine. And that's the Truth as far as I can tell.