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Exhaust and Motor Cleaning Technique?
06/08/09 at 08:43:14

I was talking to a customer at work yesterday about riding around the paving road work near the store. He told me he uses Easyoff oven cleaner to get road tar and grease off his exhaust and motor case whenever he's around that type of work. Anyone else ever heard of this? I could see this working on the exhaust but I was surprised because oven interiors are coated with baked porcelain. I didn't think the engine's paint would hold up to it.

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srinath Serious Thumper Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 5349	Re: Exhaust and Motor Cleaning Technique? Reply #1 - 06/08/09 at 09:03:54 Oven cleaner is some caustic crap, it does work, but sooner or later it will get into the aluminum pores and eat them or some crap like that. Cool. Srinath.
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Gort Ex Member	Re: Exhaust and Motor Cleaning Technique? Reply #2 - 06/08/09 at 10:30:49 'Easy Off' attacks aluminum, and the directions tell you not to put it on aluminum or paint. WalMart sells a good engine degreaser for under $2.00. It works well for me. I remove tar with lacquer thinner, although gasoline works also, but not as fast.
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Reply #3 - 06/08/09 at 11:26:26

I'd been using the McGuire motorcycle cleaning products. Effective but slow. I bought a trial bottle of some custom wash at a bike show with a form to buy more over the internet, but with a white bike a lot of products smear badly. I'll just have to take my time cleaning up and reroute my path to work.
You never tell a customer he sounds like he's full of it, (unless he's such a pita you don't want him back) but this one just sounded WAY out there. You kind of confirmed what I was already thinking.

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sakara Senior Member 2005 No Login Offline Thumpalicious Posts: 313 Lockport, NY Gender:	Re: Exhaust and Motor Cleaning Technique? Reply #4 - 06/08/09 at 11:45:07 easyoff works well on exhaust; bad for the engine, though.
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