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Ernest: I don't know about cleaning rotors but I can tell you about a high dollar oil cooler (and this one was built like a tank.) No rebuilder in the country would touch it, as they all said it had way too much carbon build up. When returned to me, I bought a couple of gallons and a five gallon bucket of carburetor cleaner and soaked and cleaned the stuffing out of them. I then hosed everything off, let dry and sprayed full of oven cleaner. Hosed off and out again (might have done twice, don't remember - didn't do no baking, etc.; though) and carburetor cleaned again and when returned same unit to rebuilder for rebuild, he asked why I had sent him either a new or re-cored cooler, when told not done by mistake but because I wanted pressure tested and tagged, he only charged me about a third of normal price for those two tasks. It obviously cleaned the things as well as new. It has since run a good while in good shape; right now they are having to cover to keep from excessive cooling; but, who isn't ? <g> I like it and think it (oven cleaner and subsequent carburetor cleaning) works fairly well. You could perhaps leave on too long and damage some things but I didn't test until destructive point reached. JWID
jofarr, soddy tn
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ernest Christley" <echristley@nc.rr.com>
I've heard several comments about cleaning carbon. I don't know if I'll have that problem, but I wanted to share an idea that I got off of one of those DIY shows. The topic was about cleaning a grill, and several options were given:> 1--oven cleaner
2--wrap in paper towels, spray down with ammonia, seal in aluminum foil for several hours.
3--wrap in aluminum foil and back on high heat for several hours
Would any of these present major drawbacks to cleaning a rotor without all the elbow grease?
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