# What do you use to clean your engine bay? **URL:** \ **Category:** SON240sx Automotive\ **Created:** [November 24, 2003, 4:57pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-do-you-use-to-clean-your-engine-bay/80299 "2003-11-24T16:57:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GreyFox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/eada6e/32.png) [@GreyFox](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/GreyFox)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 4:57pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-do-you-use-to-clean-your-engine-bay/80299/1 "2003-11-24T16:57:40Z")
As the title says… what automotive gunk cleaning product do u guys use to clean ur engine bay? [http://www.240sx.org/faq/articles/degreaser.htm](http://www.240sx.org/faq/articles/degreaser.htm) When preparing for the spray and wash down what do u guys cover up? air intake, electronics, sparkplug sockets? cheers ---
**Author:** ![SHIFT\_KA24DET](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9bd4f/32.png) [@SHIFT\_KA24DET](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SHIFT_KA24DET)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 6:46pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-do-you-use-to-clean-your-engine-bay/80299/2 "2003-11-24T18:46:10Z")
Unless you have acone filter you dont need toover anything. ---
**Author:** ![jjm\_240sx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b77776/32.png) [@jjm\_240sx](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jjm_240sx)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 6:52pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-do-you-use-to-clean-your-engine-bay/80299/3 "2003-11-24T18:52:13Z")
I cover my cone and away I go with the power washer. As for the chemicals that I use, i would say just the power washer, then if it starts getting really durty I will go get a can of gunk (the stronger one) and when it was really bad i used 2bottles of simple green (The big bottles) and about 4 roles of rags to clean it out. (thats when it was parked for the winter 2 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Rudy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@Rudy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Rudy)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 7:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-do-you-use-to-clean-your-engine-bay/80299/4 "2003-11-24T19:07:38Z")
For little touch-ups I use Fantastic Orange. works well and gets rid of grease ---
**Author:** ![iQuAGoD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@iQuAGoD](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/iQuAGoD)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 9:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-do-you-use-to-clean-your-engine-bay/80299/5 "2003-11-24T21:38:06Z")
I never formally clean my engine bay, sometimes I use some Armorall when I am already cleaning the car to clean the valve cover, stb, etc. I am just lazy though, but the Armorall helps rub the dirt off and makes stuff shine so meh, good enough. ---
**Author:** ![polex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@polex](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/polex)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 9:46pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-do-you-use-to-clean-your-engine-bay/80299/6 "2003-11-24T21:46:42Z")
You guys have it all wrong - keep all of that oil and grease on, it prevents rust! :lol: ---
**Author:** ![GreyFox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/eada6e/32.png) [@GreyFox](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/GreyFox)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 11:28am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-do-you-use-to-clean-your-engine-bay/80299/7 "2003-11-25T11:28:43Z")
> [@JJWILKS240](#): > > [quote=Rudy]For little touch-ups I use Fantastic Orange. works well and gets rid of grease ur engine bay is fugly dirty, IM the one that was using the orange cleaner. works great and its like $3 for big bottle at home depot and it smells good too, doubles as air freshener[/quote] mmmmm greasy orangy smell 😃 ---
**Author:** ![dip](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/dip/32/5479_2.png) [@dip](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/dip)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2003, 1:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-do-you-use-to-clean-your-engine-bay/80299/8 "2003-11-25T13:28:22Z")
I just cleaned my engine bay this weekend, scrub it with gunk, till its pretty clean then spray teh whole engine bay and let the gunk sit in there for about 45minutes and powerwash it all out it looks brand new, well except for the rust ---
**Author:** ![\_M\_aurice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/c5a1d2/32.png) [@\_M\_aurice](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/_M_aurice)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2003, 1:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-do-you-use-to-clean-your-engine-bay/80299/9 "2003-11-29T13:58:55Z")
hey derek - did you use t on the interior too? lol