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randyveach
Joined: 24 Aug 2014
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Location: Round Rock, Texas
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 Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2014 1:29 pm Post subject: Painting the Plenum |
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The valve cover was leaking oil (cork gasket), so I thought I would replace the gasket. While I was doing that I thought, why not paint the valve covers with VHT flat aluminum paint. And since I needed to remove the plenum to get to the valve covers, paint the plenum with VHD red fire paint. I then started removing stuff and preparing it for painting by cleaning. The black tar stuff inside the plenum is the worse. How clean does it have to be? Do I need to take it to a machine shop to be cleaned? It there a product I can use to clean it myself? Thanks for the advice.
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plumkrazy
Joined: 27 Jul 2005
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Location: Ann Arbor Michigan
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inside the intake i would not worry about.
Sounds like a nice project but next will be the a/c ,alt and p/s brackets to finish it off. lol when done you should post some photos before and after |
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HELMUT RONER
Joined: 24 May 2012
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Location: Tampa, FL
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| Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2014 7:35 pm Post subject: |
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| A couple of cans of carb cleaner will dislodge a lot of that carbon buildup. Get as much of the gunk out before spraying to be more effective. Every so often run half a can of Seafoam into the intake via the brake booster hose. |
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ChuckG
Joined: 07 Apr 2009
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Location: Ann Arbor,MI
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| BG44k and GM's Top End cleaner are good calls. That gunk isn't good. |
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