How-To: Cleaning your engine bay
Those are some great ideas on how to do the engine bay cleanup thing with the least effort and best final results.
Being an old fart with little else to do, I take a different approach to the whole engine bay thing:
Step one: Do something to engine; do it wrong.
Step two: Forced to remove engine due to step one, leaving engine bay open enough to climb inside of.
Step three: Sit inside engine bay area with lotsa rags and a couple of toothbrushes.. compressed air nozzle and strong vacuum cleaner helps with this step.
Step four: Choose otherworldly color scheme from PepBoys rattlecan selection, get storng buzz, and empty cans of paint onto engine and associated parts.
Step five: Assemble the wretched mess again, and hope PepBoys still carries same spray paint colors by next time engine goes "kablamo".
Step six: Take digital pictures of results, upload to photobucket, and post so many times that people no longer remember your screen name but can identify your bay from a lineup of usual suspects.
TaDa!
Being an old fart with little else to do, I take a different approach to the whole engine bay thing:
Step one: Do something to engine; do it wrong.
Step two: Forced to remove engine due to step one, leaving engine bay open enough to climb inside of.
Step three: Sit inside engine bay area with lotsa rags and a couple of toothbrushes.. compressed air nozzle and strong vacuum cleaner helps with this step.
Step four: Choose otherworldly color scheme from PepBoys rattlecan selection, get storng buzz, and empty cans of paint onto engine and associated parts.
Step five: Assemble the wretched mess again, and hope PepBoys still carries same spray paint colors by next time engine goes "kablamo".
Step six: Take digital pictures of results, upload to photobucket, and post so many times that people no longer remember your screen name but can identify your bay from a lineup of usual suspects.
TaDa!
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Thanx, J-bob.robert 'bob' paulson wrote:^every time i see that pic, i have to chuckle.
Unfortunately the really funny image would have been a vid of me setting up the camera and scurrying under the car in time to pose for the 10 second time delay.
No easy feat for a 50 year old guy.
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Drool engine bays!
I will get some before and after pictures up of my motor tonight.
But its not a before I cleaned it after I cleaned it...
...its a 10mins after I bought the car, to today after I have done a few things to it
I will get some before and after pictures up of my motor tonight.
But its not a before I cleaned it after I cleaned it...
...its a 10mins after I bought the car, to today after I have done a few things to it
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