) along with plenty of little bits of broken, brittle wire harness. I'd really prefer not to let any of that junk fall down into the cylinders when I change spark plugs.
Good call, I had somehow forgotten about Simple Green but it's good stuff!oragex wrote:What I will do on mine is remove all the little electric and sensor stuff, give it a clean with something like Simple green, then paint it. I paint the intake manifold while it was out for the PCV job and it looks clean
I picked up a bottle of it at AutoZone along with a can of Brakleen (the red can, non-flammable) and a couple rolls of shop towels.
I usually use a decent cloth rag and a screw driver. You can vacuum that plastic up.petermetzger wrote:
I've tried jamming a rag down into the recesses atop the engine.
I also replaced the tailgate struts which had worked fine in warm weather but always fell down when the temperature got a little cooler. Going to get back to the engine work this afternoon to try getting everything cleaned up there!
