Nice trick to get rid of WD40

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Nice trick to get rid of WD40

Postby HJ2 » Fri 09.01.2009, 19:09

Today i finished reassembling my block after a coolant hose swap. Since i planned to do some wastegate porting as well, i WD-40-ied all the bolts & nuts on the turbo.
However, the hose swap took me a lot longer than the 6 hours i read somewhere else on the forum. I had to clean EVERY bit from the reddish rust-goo that was all over the enginebay since multiple hoses failed.

So i took the car for a quick spin to see if all is watertight again (it is so far) But after a couple of minutes white smoke from under the bonnet! This of course was no surprise, since the turbo heated-up even if not in use. (the engine uses it as a heat sink :-)

Then: A quick spray on the (cooled) turbo with brake cleaner. You can see the Cleaner evaporate WITH the WD40.
Thought this was a nice trick to share.

Be safe: Do not use on a hot engine / turbo though....
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