Re: Intake manifold cleaning

["Ben Rogowski" <bgr13@mn.rr.com>]

The only problem with steel wool is that it will cause the aluminum intake
manifold to corrode more readily.  It does a great job cleaning, but the
leftover steel particles react with the aluminum.  I learned that the hard
way on some motorcycle fork legs.  They looked great for a few weeks, but
soon looked worse than they had before the steel wool treatment.  A very
coarse Scotchbrite pad *might* be a good alternative.

If you're going to take the manifold off to clean it, (you are right?) I
still think it's best to have a shop sandblast it.  There's no way they'd
charge more than $10 to do it.

Ben R
'79 Scirocco 1.8 16V
'86.5 Quantum Syncro Wagon
'00 Suzuki SV650


----- Original Message -----
From: <Captnbr@aol.com>
To: <aarons16v@hotmail.com>; <scirocco-L@scirocco.org>
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 10:44 PM
Subject: Re: Intake manifold cleaning


> In a message dated 2/16/2001 12:52:43 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> aarons16v@hotmail.com writes:
>
> << Does anyone have any cleaner they recommend for cleaning the intake
>  manifold?  >>
>
> Some steal wool and a lot of patients works very well.  Simply green
cleaner
> does ok but not as well as steal wool does in my opinion. have fun.
>
> Brian 86 16v
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