Hey what do you guy's use to clean your Valve Cover? Mine is getting some oil deposits around the edges and around the screws.

Thanks

-Frank

 

why would that ever happened ??!!

u mean engine oil?? or dirt oil??

 

bah, let it get dirty, give is characture

 

Very simple you take the cover off enough time and it will happen.

Engine Oil.

 

burn it to the ground

 

Armour All - all purpose cleaner

 

just take it off and use the break cleaner to spray them off the cover, and get

some new valve cover gasket set to replace the old one~ other wise its gona

be oily still......

 

Very informative.

 

HTH

 

I wonder if Simple green will do the job. Mine hasn't gotten that dirty yet.

 

Brake clean will slightly discolor the shade of red.
Carb clean will make the paint flake off.
SO will Throttle plate cleaner.

Haven't tried simple green... but if you want to be 100% sure it looks brand new when you're done, wash it with regular dish soap or some kind of hand soap, and let it air dry.

 

I use simple green a and a 2" paint brush. do this when the engine is cold. cover up anything you don't want getting water on.. alt, dist, etc. rinse the cover with water, spray the simple green on, scrub with the paint brush, rinse off with water when done. take off the coverings, start and run car around the block. cover should be looking good as new. I do this to my entire engine bay with no problems. I also spray the engine bay down with armorall when I'm done to make it look shiney and new. good luck.

 

fock clean valve covers.

 

DAWN "takes grease out of your way

Will
-who has not cleaned his yet....

 

try more driving.......less cleaning.

 

Dude are you retarded?

 

I took the advice off a post a few weeks ago and used Vaseline on my valve cover. It worked really good.

I did not apply the vaseline to the valve cover with it on the car. I put a cut valve cover on there in the meantime so i can install and tune the cam gears. OEM valve cover look brand new now. BTW, make sure you clean it good with degreaser first and then use the vaseline.

Mike

 

In before the lock

 

No. Nick, like myself, doesn't give a rat's *** what his motor/car looks like and would rather spend the time driving the car on the track/street/whatever. I agree with him 100%. If having a clean car is your thing, do it, that's cool. He was just stating his opinion, nothing wrong with that.


[Modified by FL n NC rock j00, 4:40 PM 3/18/2002]

 

yeah, what he said....

stunnas, and car shows suck.

 

I love you Dave.

 

Another reason not to visit south florida again.. lol

 

I use Simple Green.

 

To those that don't clean 'em, remember, dirt adds weight...

Don't use simple green. It strips the Cadmium plating off bolts. (those lovely golden ones...)

I use the stuff we have at work... Not that this helps anyone at all...

 

hmmm... I haven't had this problem using simple green.