Engine Cleaning

[Hucksta]

Good Morning All,

I regularly clean my engine (3.9 Petrol) with a light wash with water and a bit of CT18 cleaner after worshipping the mud beast. I've read that somewhere that certain hoses and other bits and peices should be sprayed or re-coated with some sort of wax type stuff. Is this necessary and if so can someone tell me what i should be doing under the bonnet to look after my baby......any suggestions would be very helpful.

Cheers

[101RRS]

Good Morning All,

I regularly clean my engine (3.9 Petrol) with a light wash with water and a bit of CT18 cleaner after worshipping the mud beast. I've read that somewhere that certain hoses and other bits and peices should be sprayed or re-coated with some sort of wax type stuff. Is this necessary and if so can someone tell me what i should be doing under the bonnet to look after my baby......any suggestions would be very helpful.

Cheers

My D1 engine was covered in wax from new and had a sticker under the bonnet saying the engine was to be rewaxed after each steam clean. The problem with the wax is that ot looked awful and when driving with a hot engine on the beach when the wax became soft with the heat, the sand stuck to the wax and I could never remove it.

Garry

[Rovernaut]

I think that only applies when new.:D
After a couple of years Land Rover naturally secrete Oil over the engine to protect things. Land Rover call it auto protection, we call it oil leaks:p

[B92 8NW]

Its perfectly acceptable to allow it to air dry naturally and then spray it with a protectant of some description. I used to spray it with Briggs and Stratton "Liquid Lanolin Spray" in the can, I guess WD40 would suffice. Or Lanotec liquid Landolin, but then you need a garden sprayer unless you get the small spray bottle. Lanotec - Natural Wool Lanolin Products | Products (http://www.lanotec.com.au/?link=3)

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[Bradtot]

Use a can of wd 40 or similar it protects and stops rust...I do this all the time and have had no problems except for the dust that sticks, however its always very easy to clean off and redo again after a trip.
Brad:cool:

[Michael2]

INOX is pretty good. One auto shop guy I spoke to used it for display aluminium parts (carbys etc) to stop the alum oxidising. He reckoned one spray lasted for months.

[Hucksta]

Ha Ha Ha, I liked the oil leak one, that was funny.

I've been using WD40 on some of the small electrical contacts and other little bits so that's good. I will give the other products a try as i go and see how it pans out and use the one that suits me best.

Thanks for you tips, they are always vedry helpful

Hucksta

[feraldisco]

speaking of which, I feel a bit nervous about spraying the Td5 whereas I had no such qualms about the 200Tdi...I presume this can be done safely with the use of some plastic over key electrics and then a bit of WD40 before starting...

[Blknight.aus]

almost any lanolin based product will look after the ally quite nicely. and dont be too scared of using it on the TD5 so long as you dont bath the engine in it then spray it with graphite you'll be fine.

[lro11]

I don't use anything on my D2 but it doesn't go anywhere. But on my honda outboard I use CRC silicone spray 7 years old and still looks like new I found that lanotec spray stained

[RichardK]

I've also used silicone spray......very good for protecting the electrics and brings the engine up nicely

[BMKal]

speaking of which, I feel a bit nervous about spraying the Td5 whereas I had no such qualms about the 200Tdi...I presume this can be done safely with the use of some plastic over key electrics and then a bit of WD40 before starting...

I give the engine by of my Disco with TD5 a blast with the gerni gun regularly and have never had any problems. Admittedly, I'm careful where I point the thing - do not aim the jet directly at anything electrical.

Then a quick squirt over some areas with Lanotec or similar.