I've been using Easy-Off oven cleaner along with a power washer & wire cup
brush on
an angle grinder----easy-off and washer get most of it off.
----- Original Message -----
From: WR Teto <monadnoc@crystal-mtn.com>
To: Ole Trucks <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 1:23 PM
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Gunk
> Barry, I've been bouncing around with an assortment of things, from carb
cleaner, kerosene, Castrol
> Super Clean, acetone, yadda yadda. Mostly mixed results, though the carb
cleaner and Super Clean if
> left to soak then followed by a water wash, works reasonably well. If you
have access to a power
> washer, that might be worth a shot as well. But you hit the nail on the
head with the "scraper and
> wire brush" detail which is the best though not always feasible. If they
made roads out of that
> junk, we'd have no more potholes here in the northeast!
>
> Wally / Templeton, MA
> 53 3100 rod project
> 72 Chevy Malibu
> Free 92 Saturn w/ blown head gasket
> 96 S-10 (daily transportation)
> Cannondale bicycle (in a pinch)
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>
> Has anyone found a
> > solvent that will soften the gunk that has been
> > accumulating and baking on over the 50 some years this
> > thing has been alive. I don't mind doing the grunt
> > work of scraping and wire brushing but as you well
> > know all places aren't accessible.
> >
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> oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
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