degreaser

i use caltex "kwick-d-grease", excellent stuff... costs about $50 for 20 litres, i get it from SEQ fuels caltex at the beachmere turnoff...

where you get steam cleaner from?

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Originally Posted by Mick-Kelly

Rightio folks, recommendations on a good degreaser. I spent today spraying the cheap crap on followed by a steam clean and so far ive got one side of Elsa's gearbox clean. Now ive just got the rest of the gearbox followed by the bellhousing and the engine to do and there has to be a simpler, easier way to do this. :mad:

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A product called GAMLEN, we used to use it when I worked at the swimming pool in Balmain, being a Tidal pool we used it to cxlean up any oil spills that got into the pool, not only destroys the oil but neutralises it and makes it bio-degradable. It's a semi-thick liquid, brown in colour, sprays on white, I used it for years on my trucks and it is without a peer, Google it and see if it is still available, Regards Frank.

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Originally Posted by incisor

where you get steam cleaner from?

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The linen cupboard, but dont tell the wife :p :p :p :p
Wheels should be good to be dropped off/picked up this week. Can bring them to your shop if you want.

With grease as thick as you have described, it's my experience that there is no easy way.
Maybe get as much as you can off with pressure & chemicals but at the end of the day it's down to a range of assorted width & shaped scrapers, & work your way through it.

A final clean up with pressure & degreasers will then work, imho.

CT 18 truck wash says on the side oif the bottle that it can be used to degrease stuff, haven't tried it myself, but if it says on the bottle............

Geck

The only time I had a problem like this, I was helping steam clean the underside of a train. We had a steam cleaner with a diesel heater blower thingy.

You put the undiluted product in one side, hose the other pressed the trigger and held on to the lance with both hands!! (You had to use a full face sheild and raincoat as the blow back was incredible)

It took all the grease off, the paint, rust, and just about anything else!.

I fact after drying, we could directly paint it! But I cannot for the life of me remember what we put in it.