How to Clean your Engine

This is quite possibly the easiest way to clean your engine and engine bay.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• 1 Bottle Simple Green
• 1 Roll Aluminum Foil
• 1 Regular Garden Hose

1. Park your vehicle so the front faces the sun

2. Open your hood

3. Cover the fuse box with aluminum foil, try to wrap the foil around the box as much as possible

4. Cover the distributor with aluminum foil (where all your spark plug wires come together)

5. Cover the coil with aluminum foil (one wire should lead from your distributor to your coil)

6. Cover the carburetor with aluminum foil (if your engine is EFI don't worry about it)

7. Now it is time to use Simple Green. Make sure the bottle is on the "Spray" setting and not "Stream"

8. Spray your entire engine compartment down thoroughly everywhere using up about half a bottle of Simple Green (full bottle for really dirty engines)

9. Make sure you get the firewall and fenders (they clean up real nice)

10. Let sit for 10 minutes (Simple Green is a degrease and takes some time to eat through the grease)

11. Turn on your garden hose

12. Wash off your engine (do not use a pressurized spray nozzle)

13. Leave your hood open until engine is dry (approximately 2 hours)

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    Admire your really clean engine

Tips & Warnings

• Do not start your vehicle until the engine compartment is dry

[listenhere101]

on 3/17/2009 This is a wonderful article. I did know you can clean an engine with simple green. That is something new. thanks for the information. 5 stars!

[DoctorSnot]

on 3/11/2009 My engine really needs this! Great article! 5 Stars!