Hey everyone, Now I'm not the brightest when it comes to car mechanics, but I like cleaning cars... It's what I do for a living, seriously

Anyways, me and a friend are still in the process of rebuilding my engine which is a 3.1 V-6. I found that carb cleaner worked great for cleaning out my throttle and plentum. Tonight I used it to clean parts of the engine bay to get the dirt and black gunk off. It seemed to work very well. I did spray some over a few sensor parts that are still plugged in. I didn't get anything into the water jackets and other open areas.

Now my question is this, the engine bay looks really clean, but did I do it the stupid way where I could have screwed something up?

Thanks for any help, Firebirdjoe

 

You've ruined everything!




But no seriously, you should be okay. Have you driven the car since then? Anything act funny??

 

LOL... no the top half of the engine is still in the rebuild stage. I have the heads at shop getting milled, I am going to pick them up tomorrow. It should be another week before we fire it up. I have a problem of doing things before thinking

 

Your can check out pics of my car and the rebuild process here

 

Carb cleaner will take off the paint, won't it? Or am I thinking of brake parts cleaner.

 

I don't think either will actually. I know brake fluid itself will destroy paint, but I'm pretty sure the cleaners won't.

 

I dont think you've messed anything up, it just pretty expensive to clean every part with carb cleaner. Thats why it is not recommended...

 

I think I heard that carb cleaner is not good to use in the throttle body. Something to do with a coating on the inside.

I play it safe and use throttle body cleaner.

 

its because throttle body cleaner also lubricates.

 

I can speak from experience on the brake fluid thing.......

 

Dont go to crazy with that carb cleaner. It will eat paint (ask me how I know) It will dull it really bad and if the paint isnt all that good it will bubble it up and it will flake off. I like simple green myself for grease and stuff that has paint under it. Works pretty good and doesnt mess the paint up.

 

Dont go to crazy with that carb cleaner. It will eat paint (ask me how I know) It will dull it really bad and if the paint isnt all that good it will bubble it up and it will flake off. I like simple green myself for grease and stuff that has paint under it. Works pretty good and doesnt mess the paint up.

 

Simple Green works great. I used it on all my tpi parts when i was rebuilding. It cuts the grease well. It's the bizatch.