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Cleaning Your Engine (Cont. from pg. 14) inside your plastic covers. Remember shooting the water onto a surface will cause the water to go upwards, so be aware of your plastic and not to get water up there. Also if the inside of your engine compartment is painted, do not put the wand too close to the paint, it could strip it off. Once you are satisfied you have taken out as much dirt as possible (this go around), set the wand to rinse. The rinse water usually has a softening agent and will rinse the chemicals out of the engine. A word of warning, GUNK works great but smells horrible. If you use GUNK, do not do this on the same day you are going to use the car for a date or tour. It takes a couple days for the smell to go away. There are other engine cleaners out there (see list above) , I have tried the Citrus ones (they smell better), WD-40, and GUNK. For the nasty jobs I use the GUNK, for the easier ones (like the newer car) I use the Citrus engine cleaners. When you are finished rinsing the engine out shut off the wand. Now take the rags you brought with you and wipe down the engine. Make sure you use some pressure on the rags while wiping Be careful of painted surfaces. Clean under oil filter/filler it down. The grease has softened because for the heat of the water and will come off easily in your rag. When you are finished with one rag (because it is too dirty or wet) put it in one of the plastic trash bags. Keep wiping down until the engine is rather dry or you run out of rags. Next take the towels off the deck lid and fenders. Wipe down the paint with the part of the towels that did not get wet or exposed to the chemicals. When done with the towels, put these in the other trash sack. Now you are ready to get the engine ready for starting. First take ALL the plastic, plastic wrap, tape and rubber bands out of the engine. Next reconnect the coil wire and make sure there are not any other foreign objects in the engine, like towels, toothbrushes or gloves. Check your notepad to make sure you got all your protective wrapping out. You may want to put a few more quarters in the machine and rinse down the area you have been working. Chances are some of your greasy gunk might be on your shoes or get on someone else’s, be considerate. Sometimes our new cleaned cars do not want to start right away after an engine washing, make sure you give it plenty of time to start and take care not to flood the engine. If you protected you electrical components from water, your car should not have any problems starting up. If you should have a problem, push the car into the sunshine and open the deck lid. Within a few minutes the components should dry out and you’ll be on your way. Let the car warm up before driving in traffic, and then drive it several mils to let it dry completely. All put back together and ready to go - not too shabby huh? In Part 2 we will dig deeper into the engine to get those detail areas. If your engine was really bad, you may have to do the engine wash a couple times to get the worst junk out. Bear in mind, the grease and gunk took years to get there and it will not give up its home easily. Bev has been showing her 1970 911E Targa for many years and the car has won at many Concours event. The car now has about 440,000 miles on it and keeping the engine clean is pretty easy. Just an hour of touch up and it is Concours ready, it is the maintenance that is the key and really worth it when people go ooohhhh when you show them the engine. I originally wrote this article a few years ago. Most of the tips are still good today, but I have tweaked it to be more relevant for today. Let me know if you have any questions, I can be reached at bev@tcsgarage. com Bev Gould has been involved with PCA since 1978 participating rallies, racing, concours, and much more. She owns TCsGarage.com together with her husband Tom. For great parts, accessories, cleaning products, this article, plus more tips and tricks, visit their website at www. tcsgarage.com. SEPTEMBER 2009 17
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