[ROVERNET - UK] De-coking a rover V8
Kent Kinard
kkinard at swbell.net
Wed Feb 8 01:47:31 GMT 2006
Hi Gavin,
Almost anything strong enough to soften carbon will damage aluminium. I
noted that there is a caution on this pressure pack also against use on
aluminium, but I have never had problems with this product. I also
haven't let it sit for more than half an hour without flushing and
reapplying. The only contents I could find said "contains
monoethanolamine." I would hesitate to use anything that is not an
identical product so we better just say forget it. Sorry for the time
wasted.
Roverly,
Kent K.
Gavin.Walker at csiro.au wrote:
> Hi Kent,
> I took a look through woolies yesterday and could not find "easy off
> blue". Oven cleaners were pretty much all in pressure packs. Most
> contained significant amounts of NaOH. One claimed to be "non-caustic",
> however the back warned of strong alkaline salts. Since when are strong
> alkaline salts "non-caustic"? Other cleaners for stovetops were citrus
> based but warned against used with aluminium. In the "easy off" line
> woolies stocked "bam" and "degreaser", the later cautioning used with
> aluminium. Got me confused, so I haven't bought/tried anything yet.
>
> The V8 upper cylinder kit I bought comes with silvered tin head gaskets.
> Why should I remove the silver coating? It also came with gaskets for
> both SU and Stromberg carburettors. Having played with both I'm
> struggling to see where I use some of it. The kit contains little round
> rubber washers, o-rings, copper compression rings. No idea where the
> latter would go. Didn't come with any exhaust manifold gaskets, though
> I kept asking the shop about those, will have to get them separately.
>
> Lastly I finally got the EGR valve out. It wasn't connected and just
> got in the way. Now have a suitable replacement bolt.
>
>
> Gavin Walker
> Canberra, Australia
>
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