What's best to clean Intake runners/manifold with?

[F22HB]

Its a blue jelly. You put it on, scrub it lightly and then let it sit for about half an hour then scrub lightly again and rinse.

[RJBleick]

solvent should do the trick pretty well, with a wire brush of some sort. but that stuff is a bit spendy, so if your only going to be cleaning that i would also suggest brake cleaner or carb cleaner.

[Losiracer2]

That Oil Eater stuff I know for sure works but I thought it was only available comercially. We used to have this big 5 gallon bucket of this concentrate to clean the floors of the garage, back when I was a lube tech at this local garage. It basically ATE the oil, you poured it on and bam the oil was breaking apart.

I just don't know where to find that in a handy spray bottle.

[Leung]

i've always had good experiences with oven cleaner, i mean the thing is off the car anyhow and you're going to rince it out.

Just spray some in, don't breath it in though, let it soak for a while, even better over night and then come back and rinse.

[chrischhorn]

I got it from Costco......its $9.99 for the bottle full + a 1 gallon refill jug.

[Losiracer2]

well, Carb Cleaner, a toothbrush and a couple shop towels did the trick! it looks MUCH better now, especially that EGR port, NASTY before.

[alifeva]

hey thats nice job man. was it a fairly easy job? were you comfortable removing the entire manifold? what are some pointers you can suggest?

[kelton]

Even though you already cleaned it I will say that f22hb intake mani. looked brand new after using aluminum jelly.

[Losiracer2]

hey thats nice job man. was it a fairly easy job? were you comfortable removing the entire manifold? what are some pointers you can suggest?

well removing the entire manifold is a quite tedious task by itself. But since I had to replace a head gasket on my car, I took off the intake manifold w/ it since once you remove it, you'd have to replace that gasket for it. And I did so w/ a better Bisimoto heat shielding one.

Basically, there's a lot of vacuum lines and little stuff you have to unplug.

[Leung]

Basically, there's a lot of vacuum lines and little stuff you have to unplug.

so you're saying make sure to label everything well??? lol

[Losiracer2]

so you're saying make sure to label everything well??? lol

haha yeah, the reason why it took my 7 hours to remove the cyl. head and intake is b/c I put masking tape around all the important vacuum lines and I have about 7 little ziploc baggies written on them w/ a sharpie marker. Well maybe if I was moving fast it coulda taken 5 hours, but since this was such a huge undertaking for me, i went slow.