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| Pat Garvey |
  Apr 16 2008, 09:33 PM
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Do I or don't I...........?  Group: Members Posts: 5,899 Joined: 24-March 06 From: SE PA, near Philly Member No.: 5,765 Region Association: North East States  |
Suggestions please, for cleaning the air filter for an early 914 that sat for years with oil in it.
The upper surfaces are about as close to perfect as one can get, with some minor hose "rash", which is easily fixed. Script is perfect & the entire assembly will polish up nicely. Problem is, this was sitting in old oil for 20 years! It's really gunked up (the filter). Any ideas? 2 week soak in Simple Green, etc? Pat |
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| JeffBowlsby |
Apr 16 2008, 09:41 PM
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914 Wiring Harnesses Group: Members Posts: 8,510 Joined: 7-January 03 From: San Ramon CA Member No.: 104 Region Association: None 
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Did you receive my recent email Pat? Coincidently it was about the air cleaner.
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| tracks914 |
Apr 16 2008, 09:45 PM
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Canadian Member Group: Benefactors Posts: 2,083 Joined: 15-January 03 From: Timmins, Ontario, Canada Member No.: 153 Region Association: None  |
First - Castrol Super Clean is the best degreaser you can get off the shelf.
Second - clean it up nice and put it on the shelf. Third - find yourself a '73 1.7 air cleaner with a paper filter element and install it on your car and never worry about the gunk again. Fourth - if you wan t it to look original see this thread. Air Filter Conversion |
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| orange914 |
Apr 17 2008, 08:15 PM
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http://5starmediaworks.com/index.html Group: Members Posts: 3,371 Joined: 26-March 05 From: Ceres, California Member No.: 3,818 Region Association: Northern California |
QUOTE(tracks914 @ Apr 16 2008, 08:45 PM)  First - Castrol Super Clean is the best degreaser you can get off the shelf. Second - clean it up nice and put it on the shelf. Third - find yourself a '73 1.7 air cleaner with a paper filter element and install it on your car and never worry about the gunk again. Fourth - if you wan t it to look original see this thread. Air Filter Conversion it may sound funny or counterintuitive but i've loosened some pretty stuborn and aged dirt/oil/grease by soaking it with w/d for 24hrs. +. let it sit and pressure wash it off. it also leaves the origanal paint looking like new (oils soak in i guess). some may cringe but i've done this with great sucess under hood on EVERYthing, paint, rubber, plastic ect... AND it doesn't have the drawbacks that some detailing products have such as too harsh or causing dirt to cling later (pressure or steam clean off of course). mike |
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| Pat Garvey |
Apr 17 2008, 09:08 PM
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Do I or don't I...........? Group: Members Posts: 5,899 Joined: 24-March 06 From: SE PA, near Philly Member No.: 5,765 Region Association: North East States |
QUOTE(Jeff Bowlsby @ Apr 16 2008, 09:41 PM) Did you receive my recent email Pat? Coincidently it was about the air cleaner. Jeff, Just checked - got it. Benn so busy with other things & hate AOL so much that I haven't checked in. Yeah send me the pdf & thanks! I'll post something new about the "thingy" in the other forum. Pat |
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| Pat Garvey |
Apr 17 2008, 09:10 PM
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Do I or don't I...........? Group: Members Posts: 5,899 Joined: 24-March 06 From: SE PA, near Philly Member No.: 5,765 Region Association: North East States |
QUOTE(tracks914 @ Apr 16 2008, 09:45 PM) First - Castrol Super Clean is the best degreaser you can get off the shelf. Second - clean it up nice and put it on the shelf. Third - find yourself a '73 1.7 air cleaner with a paper filter element and install it on your car and never worry about the gunk again. Fourth - if you wan t it to look original see this thread. Air Filter Conversion Thanks! I'll try #1 first. Pat |
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