Cleaned the engine

danwatt

danwatt

Doing stuff.
Totally washed, degreased, and partially detailed (time started running out) the engine of my Mercedes 90' 300SE. Used a few cans of Gunk Engine Brite foam, gel, and original. The foam is great for really cluttered areas, like around my throttle body. Really gets into the crevices. The gel is good areas around sensitive electronic parts, because it sticks where you spray it. Also good for areas with heavy grease, since it won't drip off right away. Used the original liquid stuff for the bigger, broader areas (like the engine itself). Also did the front undercarriage, but I never got around to taking pictures of it. Scrubbed it in with a combination of tools, but my toothbrush and sponges got most of the action. The great thing is that my car is huge... it was really designed for a v8, but I have an inline six in there, so I have plenty of room to work with.



Took out a lot of parts, like the headlights, coolant reservoir, air filter housing, fan shroud, alternator, and a lot of the electronic stuff. Unbolted and swung aside things that I didn't have timefor /wasn't capable of removing completely, like the ABS servo unit, ac compressor, air injection pump, and pretty much anything held in by clips. This was, I was really able to get into all the nooks and crannys, as well as clean individual parts in a tub. Next time I'm going to take out the radiator, aux cooling fans, and ac condenser, as they really get in the way.



Afterwards, I polished and waxed the paint, and dressed all the rubber/vinyl/plastic parts with tire dressing and the like. I really wish I had more time to do this, as I would polish all the brake lines, coolant hose clamps, bolts, etc. Maybe I should do it in stages?



Anyways, here are some pictures.



Before:



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Covering all breather openings and sensitive equiptment:



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Removal of a bunch of stuff:



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Let the degreaser flow...



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Rinse...



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Finished product:



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EnduroExpertFSR said:
looks great man but i think the removing stuff was a bit of overkill?
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Of course it is. 99% of the stuff done on this site is overkill, but you can't say it isn't worth it.
 
haha yea i detailed the engine on my accord a while ago but the only stuff i needed to remove was the plastic motor cover and some skin on my hands and arms some stuff in there was sharp
 
DanoWatt said:
Of course it is. 99% of the stuff done on this site is overkill, but you can't say it isn't worth it.
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Of course it is, you certainly added some value to that car. Looks great, job well done. :up
 
I would only consider it value if I thought of my car in monetary terms. I would never sell this car. Hell, it will probably outlive me (and I'm not exactly all that old).
 
liquidtiger720 said:
w126?



very cool. I need to try that some day.
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Chassis designation. I could swear BMW uses them too. Mercedes naming designations are damn confusing, so most MB owners refer to them by chassis designation and engine designation (for example, I have a w126 chassis with the m103 motor... somebody with a 1987 190E 2.4 12 valve has a w201, m102 motor). Before Mercedes based their models on a class system (like today's S-Class, E-Class, R-Class, etc) they would identify the car by abbreviations of German words. A 300SE means Sonder Einspritzung: Special class, fuel injection. The 300 designates the engine size... in my case, 3 litres. But then a carburated version of my car would just be 300S. And then you also have the roadsters which used the SL designation: Super Licht (light). So just because it has S, doesn't mean it's an S-Class. The only thing you can be sure of is that if there is a D, it means diesel. The model designations are just too damn confusing for us English speakers.



Please note, I probably mispelled or completely screwed up everything in German. I'm Irish American for godsakes.
 
They're primarily used to distinguish between generations of types of car. For example the first BMW 3 Series was E30, then E36, then E46 and now the E90 has just been launched. They're all three series, but the code number just helps establish their approximate age.



Same with Porsche - all the 911s have been 911, 964, 993, 996 and now 997 etc.



Ben
 
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