Steam Cleaning Engine Bay

[rmagictastic]

Hi all,

Do we know if its ok to steam clean the engine bay??


Thanks

Nick

[jonrx7uk]

I\'ve never dared, but i know others have with no ill effects...

Cheers
Jon

[Martiny]

Done it many times ( I hate having dirty hands), no ill effects. I warm up the engine first, so that if water does get anywhere it shouldnt, hopefully it will evaporate quicker.

[jonrx7uk]

What if cold water gets onto the hot turbo/exhaust manifold, will this cause it to crack?

[Oedipus Rex]

I can\'t see it. I would have thought that it would have just heated up the water and evaporated it pretty much on contact. I reckon you\'d need a very sustained supply of very cold water to even get anywhere near doing that. I still think it would probably just slowly bring the temp down though, rather thancracking it.

[Oedipus Rex]

and as for steam cleaning, can\'t imagine it would do any harm, but I would just warm it all up a bit first.