Thats how they clean intake manifolds on TDIs when they get all carboned up.
I'm not sure they use carb cleaner, I think they just heat them until the
carbon catches fire, its all oil soaked anyway...
The videos are pretty cool.
-Curt
On Friday, March 2, 2018, 12:35:39 AM EST, Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes
<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
I think you can squirt some carb cleaner in, light it on fire, then feed it
compressed air from a gun until all the crud is burned out. I posted a
video link to it one time.
On Feb 27, 2018 11:19 AM, "Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes" <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
I have 5 new glow plugs that need a new home. Let me know offlist if
interested.
On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 1:35 PM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
> Yeah I should get that thing and try it out. I have a 12-2 mtg on
> Thursday so can't make lunch then but we can get organized at some time.
I
> guess I should just put it back together and see how it runs, then deal
> with the plugs if it doesn't run well.
>
> --FT
>
>
>
> On 2/27/18 11:11 AM, Meade Dillon via Mercedes wrote:
>
>> Have you tested the GPs? I've got an ammeter rigged up with heavy wire
so
>> you can watch the current spike and then drop as they heat up. We should
>> do lunch, maybe Thursday, and I can loan you the tool.
>>
>> Drop off the manifold for a hot tank dip to clean it out? I wonder if
>> Star
>> Motors has one, Simmons Machine Shop is also on your side of the rivers
>> and
>> they've got one for sure. Personally I don't think that is required in
>> most cases, but for piece of mind it would be fun. My old 123.190 had a
>> really gunked up intake manifold, but the stuff would slowly migrate to
>> the
>> intake valves and so occasionally it would suck in a bit, and expel
chunks
>> out the exhaust while sounding pretty rough and missing a bit.
>>
>> -------------
>> Max
>> Charleston SC
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 10:30 AM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes <
>> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>>
>> So I took off the manifold and cleaned up the EGR and got it working OK
>>> (at least it opens and closes with vacuum, not sure if the car systems
>>> are
>>> working to make it do that). It was throwing EGR and glow plug codes, I
>>> read some other reports that suggest the EGR might somehow lead to the
>>> generation of GP codes, so if that is the case then I probably wouldn't
>>> need to fool with the GPs. Not sure why bad GPs would make the car run
>>> bad
>>> once it starts anyway, it starts mostly OK with a good charge on the
>>> battree so that suggests the GPs might be mostly OK too.
>>>
>>> There is also a bypass method to jumper some wires on the EGR so it
won't
>>> be EGRing and doing all that business, I might do that too if the car
>>> still
>>> doesn't run right.
>>>
>>> I have not put the manifold back on yet, I was waiting to get some Kroil
>>> and keep dosing the GPs with it, but the suggested procedure is to run
it
>>> and get it hot to make them easier to get out, which means the manifold
>>> needs to be on there for the car to run, and it would have to come off a
>>> hot engine which would not be a lot of fun, but it is mostly easy except
>>> for the clamp holding the turbo output tube onto the manifold.
>>>
>>> Albore's LIST MOM's opinion aside, I guess I should just put it back
>>> together and see if it runs better now, and if it does then not fool
with
>>> the GPs. I'd have to do that anyway, so I guess I will.
>>>
>>> BTW the EGR was completely buggered up with diesel soot and crud, took a
>>> lot of scraping and brushing with little wire brushes and degreaser to
>>> get
>>> it clean. I put some purple degreaser stuff in the manifold and let it
>>> sit
>>> for a coupla days, not sure that loosened anything out of the manifold,
>>> but
>>> I managed to scrape some stuff from the ends I could reach. What I
>>> poured
>>> out was pretty nasty though, so maybe something came out of it. If I
>>> had a
>>> pressure washer I probably could have blasted a lot out. It is not
>>> completely clogged so I think it will be OK. The EGR concept is
>>> completely
>>> stupid.
>>>
>>> This was something of a pointless sharing, but I guess it got my
thinking
>>> thought through.
>>>
>>> --
>>> --FT (who likes the recent local warming thought it is making the tree
>>> pollen go crazy now, and my respiratory system go crazy)
>>>
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