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) >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> >> > -- > --FT > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com