Engine bay clean up!!

[s car go]

Hi all
I've currently got the engine out and stripped from my "other" 4x4xfar,and would like to clean up the engine bay a bit!!
Question is what have you guys used to sparkle it up!! It seems to have been srayed with laquer in the past and now its brown and dirty,but if you scrape it with a finger nail it reveals nice clean paint! Obviously I don't want to scrath the whole engine bay with my finger nails!!

Regards

Mark

[Rustinho]

Gunk, a scrubbing brush and water?

[s car go]

Yeh I was thinking somthing like that,but here its "Dégraissant".I was hoping somone would say I've used xx product, spray on,go for a cold one,come back,and its all done!!
Looks like it's going to be good old fashioned hard work!!!

Best
Mark

[POPEYE]

No easy way unless you have an industrial type steam cleaner, save some old spray bottles (cillitt bang etc, they dont last long with degreaser) buy a gall of gunk or similar water soluble cleaner, give it a spray and leave to well soak in, another spray and scrub with an old paint brush jet wash it off and repeat is theres any shoit left, if the paints good a quick buff up with some car polish and it will look like new,

[DaveHMS]

I've used commercial truck cleaner in combo with a hot water pressure washer. I wouldn't want to do it too often - the stuff seems corrosive.

[BIG GENERAL]

Autoglym engine bay cleaner very good results.

[s car go]

No easy way unless you have an industrial type steam cleaner, save some old spray bottles (cillitt bang etc, they dont last long with degreaser) buy a gall of gunk or similar water soluble cleaner, give it a spray and leave to well soak in, another spray and scrub with an old paint brush jet wash it off and repeat is theres any shoit left, if the paints good a quick buff up with some car polish and it will look like new,

Yep thats the way I'm going to go! I can't get my new block delivered till next week anyway,so I've got a week to get it done.

Thanks all for the replies

Regards

Mark

[dieselboy]

Jizer works a treat on greasy things. May be worth a try!

[s car go]

Jizer !

Hope this is something different to what I used this word for as a school boy!!

[dieselboy]

Hope this is something different to what I used this word for as a school boy!!

No thats Jizz! Unless they bottle that stuff up these days?

[dieselboy]

http://www.axminster.co.uk/jizer-par...9/?src=froogle