Re: [T3] Best way to clean an oil cooler?

[Ben Doughney <ben_d@clear.net.nz>]

<x-flowed>On 10/09/2004, at 2:36 PM, Steven Cooper wrote:

> I've just been through this process and it is quite time consuming.  
> The
> only way I could find to clean the inside was to fill it with solvant
> degreaser and let it soak for several hours, then rinse it out.  Keep
> repeating this process until the stuff you flush out is clean.  It 
> took me a
> couple of days to do this.  If anybody has another method or a 
> particular
> brand of cleaner/degreaser they find effective, please let us all know.

I have had good results by letting it soak in solvent and then taking 
it to the local washworld and blasting it out with their high pressure 
sprayer.

Ben Doughney

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