cleaning?
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From: East TN
Originally posted by Kai
as long as it is not to humid (I'm guessing Kali is far from humid) it should be OK.
You may want to get some heavyweight oil (20W50) or some MMO or something, and put a wee bit into each cylinder and turn it over by hand a couple times. That should get a nice oil layer on the cylinder walls and prevent pitting if it is going to sit a while.
as long as it is not to humid (I'm guessing Kali is far from humid) it should be OK.
You may want to get some heavyweight oil (20W50) or some MMO or something, and put a wee bit into each cylinder and turn it over by hand a couple times. That should get a nice oil layer on the cylinder walls and prevent pitting if it is going to sit a while.
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Can't believe nobody mentioned having it professionally cleaned.
Any machine shop in your area can either hot-tank it, or glass bead it. To hot-tank, they basically submerge the head/parts in a tank of nasty caustic shit that eats away ANYTHING. Glass beading involves blasting it with high-velocity bits of glass or something, almost like sandblasting. Works great, and it'll get anything off.
IMO it's not worth trying to clean your own engine parts. A tanking/beading costs all of 30 bucks, takes no effort on your part, and gets it about 10x cleaner than ANYTHING you could ever hope to do on your own.
My local machine shop charged me 40 bux to tank AND bead a head I brought in. Here's before and after pix .. you be the judge.
Try doing that on your own.
Any machine shop in your area can either hot-tank it, or glass bead it. To hot-tank, they basically submerge the head/parts in a tank of nasty caustic shit that eats away ANYTHING. Glass beading involves blasting it with high-velocity bits of glass or something, almost like sandblasting. Works great, and it'll get anything off.
IMO it's not worth trying to clean your own engine parts. A tanking/beading costs all of 30 bucks, takes no effort on your part, and gets it about 10x cleaner than ANYTHING you could ever hope to do on your own.
My local machine shop charged me 40 bux to tank AND bead a head I brought in. Here's before and after pix .. you be the judge.
Try doing that on your own.
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Holy cleanliness batman...
I would have recommended that but it didn't seem like he was dismantling his that much until I re-read the original post about him planning to take apart the head....
good advice:thumbup: .. yeah... yeah... what he said^
I would have recommended that but it didn't seem like he was dismantling his that much until I re-read the original post about him planning to take apart the head....
good advice:thumbup: .. yeah... yeah... what he said^