Ho do I clean this mess

Post by **AYKBOBCAT** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 10:52 am

I bought a T2 and the gears were "lubricated" with some black grease! How do I clean this up? Can I just use dish soap?

AARRGH

Post by **qctires** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 11:22 am

Dish soap will no deolvethe gease totally. If you can buy a litr or smaller container of denatured alcohol, it will work great on those greasy parts. And it will not hurt the material you ae cleaning. It is flammable though so be careful and do it outdoors.

Post by **AYKBOBCAT** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 11:24 am

OK

Why do they call it "denatured"?

Post by **badhoopty** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 11:25 am

people here are prolly gonna yell at me, but i use carb cleaner on that type of stuff.

Post by **scr8p** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 11:28 am

badhoopty wrote:people here are prolly gonna yell at me, but i use carb cleaner on that type of stuff.

i use lacquer thinner.

Post by **AYKBOBCAT** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 12:27 pm

So looks like any alcohool based stuff would work I guess...

Post by **noony** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 2:42 pm

I use motor spray to clean my difs so i would guss it would work on that also.

Post by **knucklebuster** » Sat Jan 13, 2007 7:06 pm

badhoopty wrote:people here are prolly gonna yell at me, but i use carb cleaner on that type of stuff.

Yeah, forgot to mention in another post... B12 Chemtool is carb cleaner.

Post by **shodog** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 6:05 pm

Carb cleaner and laquer thinner is some rough stuff. I found that Mineral sprits AKA paint thinner works killer for degreasing.

Post by **scr8p** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 6:40 pm

shodog wrote:Carb cleaner and laquer thinner is some rough stuff. I found that Mineral sprits AKA paint thinner works killer for degreasing.

ya, but ya feel good afterwards.......................

Post by **qctires** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 6:58 pm

Home depot has one called ODORLESS SOLVENT. Sells by quart or gallon . It has a yellow colored label. Go to the paint section.

Post by **AYKBOBCAT** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 2:39 am

qctires wrote:Home depot has one called ODORLESS SOLVENT. Sells by quart or gallon . It has a yellow colored label. Go to the paint section.

Ahem... I live in the Netherlands.... It's a long way to home depot

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