1)with a cool engine, spray engine degreeser all over
2)wait 15mins
3)wash it off with low pressure water
4)spray tire shine all over engine bay
5)close hood and drive for 30mins
6)stop and pop hood and take pics

before

after

 

lol sounds easy.. is it really that easy? j/k looks good

 

Hmmm, simple, but yet effective NICE

 

There is actual engine detailer in a can at Autozone, forgot what the brand was.. but the stuff works great.

 

Id keep an eye on your timing belt. I did that a while back and my timing belt started drying out awfully quick to the point where I had to replace it 2 months after the cleaning!

 

Is there anything I should avoid spraying?

Is that a dohc zc?

 

wheres the water tank for thw wipers
???

good job

wich tire cleaner u used??
i remember back in the days mycousing used WD40 all over the place and made the engine shinny

 

Isn't it bad not to have the timing belt cover on? I mean not only is ther a cover but the covers have rubber gaskets to keep out any dirt/oil/water.

Just asking because i see so many people without them.

Vince

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by AgentJam &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Isn't it bad not to have the timing belt cover on? I mean not only is ther a cover but the covers have rubber gaskets to keep out any dirt/oil/water.

Just asking because i see so many people without them.

Vince</TD></TR></TABLE>

Once you get new cams and camgears, it makes easier to adjust your valve timing w/o having to take the valve cover off.

 

You forgot to tell them to cover the intake and the dizzy

Hey some thing yall should all look out for is getting that eng. cleaner/water down in the spark plug this means you got proplems

This happen to my boy like 2 months ago and to me last night

if this happens to you get a vacum and a a small tube (i pulled the copper out of a wire and used that) stick the line in where the spark plug is, dont let this cleaner get down in the piston i say you put a nice lil hole in your piston, put the othere side of the line on the vacum and put your hand around it to suck up the water.

^ dose any one know what i just tried to say there? ^

Any ways we both had to repalce the wires and plugs

And what kind of tire shine?
is this a ef or crx?

 

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Once you get new cams and camgears, it makes easier to adjust your valve timing w/o having to take the valve cover off.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Yes i know why people do it...so no one see's a problem with it? Or feels uncomfortable?

 

I use Eagle One Tire Shine Wet. I've also noticed the citrus gunk seems to work better than engine brite or regular gunk.

 

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Once you get new cams and camgears, it makes easier to adjust your valve timing w/o having to take the valve cover off.</TD></TR></TABLE>

yah but on a zc you dont have that problem, you just take the stupid plastic cover off so you can adjust, so in reality you shouldnt remove it.

i have the edjust of my valve cover shaved off, but no part of the belt is 100% exposed, rock and **** can fly up and land in your belt

 

my car got stolen back in thanksgiving weekend last year. and the dudes stole my cf hood and cut my windshield washer nossles. and i havnt been using my washerfuild since. and never did so while i was at it i removed the tank.

the timing belt cover for the zc rubs my hood and pushes the cover down agesnt the timing belt with even wears the timing belt out even more.

i got alot of water sitting in the valve cover valley on top of the spark plug boot, i was worried it would go down the spark plug hole. but it slowly driped off. and with the dizzy and spark plugs. you guys are trippen i went ape with the cleaner, tire shine, and water. and the engine fired up like nothing. only the alternator belt gave a little squeel during start but everything is normal.

btw. i dont think that plastic timing belt cover would do any justice with water. water can still creep up under it like it would with the spark plug boot.

 

Anytime you have something that isn't water tight, and have large surfaces that are closely mated you will get that 'creeping' of water. Pretty much any liquid for that matter. It's called capilary attraction. The surface tension of whatever liquid is present, is strong enough to pull itself along the surface of whatever object is there. Ta-daa!! I can't believe I remembered that.....

 

nice job

 

and btw i did plug up the intake and valve cover crank case vent with paper before doing this

 

Just bought a spray apllicatiopn bottle of Simple green, better be worth the 4.99

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by lamchop0000 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">and btw i did plug up the intake and valve cover crank case vent with paper before doing this</TD></TR></TABLE>

Plastic bag, cover the distributor too... I don't know how many times my car died after an engine cleaning because there was water in the cap.

 

Im a tech at a Gm dealership i just go back to detail and use all there stuff for engines :D :D :D :D

 

Used simple green to just clean mine, just sprayed it on nice ans swet everywhere, let it sit for 5 min and drip/dry away, washed off as much as I could, was looking good but the intake and valve cover needed some more so I just sprayed the whole engine again and let it sit for 15 min this time

Hosed everything down, waited 15 min incase I got any water near the intake or whatever, car started up and ran around the block fien, dont have any tire shine though

Did tape/bag anything off, just avoided the dizzy as much as possible

 

About getting water everywhere... It should be ok, if you give it long enough to dry right? Like with the distributor and stuff? I mean if I unplugged my computer and threw it in a swimming pool, then dried it out and didnt start it untill it dried, you wont have any problems, same with this. With the the timing belt, you could spray some of that timing belt can ****, so it doesnt dry out n crack or something.

 

I wash my engine at the car wash with every car wash (approx once a week). I use the tire and engine cleaner witht he engine off, spray the whole thing down (it has that nice minty scent). Leave it for about 3-5 minutes, then spray it off with high pressure rinse. Then start the car and let it run while I wash the rest of the car to heat up and thereby drying the engine. Then Black Magic Tire Wet is used on the valve cover, intake tube, intake box, main fuse box, clutch cable, hoses, and just about every other thing under the hood. I have done this since I have had the car (about a year and a half), the engine bay looks as good as it did rolling down the assembly line.

I have never covered anything or had any problems. As long as the spark plug wires are down tight on the plugs, water won't seep in. That rubber on the wire that covers the hole is meant to hold out moisture, that is it's purpose.

Perfectly clean engine bay year round. Never leave home with a dirty engine.

As for the timing belt cover, I had a Honda dealer order and install a new one after a mechanic broke the front plastic screw hole (the part that protrudes to have the screw hold it together to hold the two sides of the cover together). For me, the cover is a must for protection. The Honda engineers put it there for a reason and I will trust their judgement over the average 16-yr old kid that takes it off because it looks cool. (I know that with certain setups there is a valid reson to not have the cover and I don't mean that anyone here is a 16-yr old ricer, but from what I have noticed that looks is the main reason for removal. Leaving the cover on is THE MOST PRACTICAL for a daily driven road car. Race car that needs constant adjustment, leave it off. Commuter car driven around town, leave it on. Rocks don't like your engine and are present everywhere.)

P.S. I wax the inside of the hood and engine bay along with the car for that shiny, clean, new look.




Modified by johnclaunch at 2:16 AM 6/17/2004

 

post pics

 

I just cover the inatake and distributer, duct tape the wire cover. First I hit the bad spots with Brakleen, then I Super-clean the whole underhood and let it sit for ten minutes. Then I hose it off with low pressure. Works like a dream. Then I hit all the rubber stuff with Armor-all Detailers Advantage.