G'day folks.
My gearbox\tranfer has been weeping from somewhere for sometime and I have neglected it. It is now time to find out what it is that's leaking so to do that I need to clean it. It is covered in that thick greasy grime shit and over time it has coated everything near by.
So far I have sprayed 250mm of undiluted degreaser over it and put $5 in the local DIY carwash and gernied the fuck out of it. Got rid of alot but there's still plenty there. It's now soaking in another 250mm of degreaser and I will gernie that lot shortly.
Any other tips?
Is there anything that it is most likely to be?
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Cleaning a grease/grime off a gearbox
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Re: Cleaning a grease/grime off a gearbox
Brake cleaner works awesome on cleaning up grease on tools or benches.
be the same on the grime stuff id say
be the same on the grime stuff id say
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Re: Cleaning a grease/grime off a gearbox
Gunwash thinners
Re: Cleaning a grease/grime off a gearbox
Kenco Shift it or
Subaru upper engine cleaner
Subaru upper engine cleaner
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Re: Cleaning a grease/grime off a gearbox
turbo gu wrote: Subaru upper engine cleaner
Is there anything that shit can't do?
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Re: Cleaning a grease/grime off a gearbox
Well it's not a very good personal lubricant and it's a terrible pie topper.
Re: Cleaning a grease/grime off a gearbox
What sort of pie are we talking about here?
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Resident Terrorist
Re: Cleaning a grease/grime off a gearbox
Well we are talking about greasy boxes aren't we?
Re: Cleaning a grease/grime off a gearbox
It would clean a dirty box nicely but there might be a lot of noise out of it for a while afterRAY185 wrote:Well we are talking about greasy boxes aren't we?
GU 42td wagon for touring
GU ute for the fun stuff
http://www.allterrain4wd.org.au/
GU ute for the fun stuff
http://www.allterrain4wd.org.au/
Re: Cleaning a grease/grime off a gearbox
Gold!!RAY185 wrote:Well it's not a very good personal lubricant and it's a terrible pie topper.
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Re: Cleaning a grease/grime off a gearbox
Warm coke believe it or not works a deadest treat
After seeing it in action, I stoped putting it in my bourbon
After seeing it in action, I stoped putting it in my bourbon
Re: Cleaning a grease/grime off a gearbox
"Warm coke believe it or not works a deadest treat "
Some years ago, I was arranging for some machining of heavy and large Hydro turbine components. These normally needed a vertical boring machine and there aren't many in the country. I went to Crib Point Engineering in Tyabb (Vic) to review their facilities. They had just refurbished and machined the split faces in the turbine housings for a large steam turbine. They had to be flat within 0.05 mm from end to end, and no more than 0.02 mm step where they had to restart machining. They tried all sorts of cutting fluids with their end mills, but the best they found by far was Coke. Appaerently it caramelises at the cutting tip and provides effective lubrication. If you drop a small pebble into a bottle of coke, it dissolves it very fast too.
Some years ago, I was arranging for some machining of heavy and large Hydro turbine components. These normally needed a vertical boring machine and there aren't many in the country. I went to Crib Point Engineering in Tyabb (Vic) to review their facilities. They had just refurbished and machined the split faces in the turbine housings for a large steam turbine. They had to be flat within 0.05 mm from end to end, and no more than 0.02 mm step where they had to restart machining. They tried all sorts of cutting fluids with their end mills, but the best they found by far was Coke. Appaerently it caramelises at the cutting tip and provides effective lubrication. If you drop a small pebble into a bottle of coke, it dissolves it very fast too.
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