Hey Guys! Welcome back to Detail Garage So today we have a 1969 Camaro Super-sport.
We are going to be cleaning the engine on this car.This car's engine has a 350 CC 8 cylinder engine.
It's a little bit dirty it's carbureted. so there's a few things that we need to be aware of...
What products are we going to use to get this clean Matt?
So to clean away all the grease and oil that's splattered all over the engine, we're gonna use All-Clean Plus.
All-Clean it is a specialty degreaser. It's mild enough to use inside or outside the car...
But we're gonna dilute it about 5 ot 6 to one.
We're going to need it nice and strong to help us cut through some of the grease and grime on the top of the engine.
Yeah, so on this engine there's a few things to be aware of.
It is carbureted so you can't just go ahead and use a pressure washer.
And the age of the vehicle some of the wiring is original and can be delicate.
With time you have the wiring starting to bend and crack.
The last thing we want is a pressure washer, you know washing away the covering on the wires ruining the wiring harnesses.
So we're going to be covering up the carburetor, distributor, parts of the battery.
We're gonna be using a water hose to water it down after we already saturated with All-Clean and agitate it.
Absolutely, so to go ahead and get into the engine bay,we're gonna be using a few brushes and a few tools to get the job done.
So,we have a couple part cleaning brushes. These are the Best Detailing Brush.
It has a plastic handle a plastic farrell and these nice boars hair bristles.
So it's naturally resistant to chemicals but also very durable and very stiff.
It's going to help us get a very deep clean all throughout the engine bay.
We have a couple wheel and body cleaning brushes with flagged tips. These are nice and soft.
We have an assortment of bags and some tape
This will help us block off any sensitive areas where we don't want to get a lot of water saturating electrical connections.
Lets get started!
So, the first thing we did is cover-up the distributor with this plastic bag.
You wanna make sure to cover and protecting it from getting water inside it.
If you get water inside you're gonna get misfires and you can have a bad day.
Then we covered up the carburetor with another plastic bags little bit bigger.
We wanna ensure that there is no water going inside thats going to damaged engine.
Newer cars have air boxes so it's fine you don't have to cover it up.
But for these older cars you have to cover us the carb.
Then we covered up this cord right here to make sure it doesn't get damaged because the owner does have this on a trickle charger..
So to make sure to protect his investment .
See, a lot of people miss this right here.
It's a little breather . Make sure to cover that up and make sure no water gets in there damages the filter itself .
After we have everything all covered up and secure we start rinsing off the vehicle.
You can see we're not using a pressure washer.
Just using a gentle stream of water to knock off any loose dirt.
Make sure we don't accidentally damage any engine components.
After the engine is rinsed down its time for use to start spraying our All-Clean Plus.
It's already been diluted so we just start spraying it anywhere we see a lot of oil or nasty build up.
You wanna make sure to get in between every little crack and crevice
After you want to leave that All-Clean Plus sit on there few moments.
You wanna start agitating any kind of loose dirt or oil particles.
This is there we get our soft-tip bristle brush and start agitating.
We also use our Best Detailing Brush to get into the harder areas to get.
Once you agitate all the loose dirt with the All-Clean Plus, it's time for us to start raising that off.
Again we're using a gentle stream of water because we don't want to damage any engine components or wiring.
The final step, is for us to knock off any loose water that may be sitting on the engine block or in the crevices.
So, that's where this Master Blaster right here really comes in handy.
The last and final step is to remove all the plastics that we used to cover up engine components.
The last thing you want to do is turn on this vehicle when there's a carburetor with a plastic bag around it.
So the final step of engine bay detailing is dressing .
Now, Alex and I are spraying down all the plastic, rubber and vinyl parts on the engine bay with Black-on -Black aerosol dressing.
You can see the aerosol mists and atomizes very finely.
We get great coverage over all these rubber lines and hoses and the plastic parts around the engine.
Which is great because we are restoring a deep-black new look at all those pieces.
So now you see how easy it is to clean and detail an old engine.
This V8 came full of grease and grime as well as tons of oil that had leaked all over the place.
Alex and I we went in with some All-Clean Plus and a couple of brushes and we were able to take away years of caked-on grease.
So now you see just how easy it is to make an engine look great.
We even went ahead and put on some Black-on-Black Dressing, made it look awesome.
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