AlbertDefender90 · Oct 11, 2014

Hi all,

I'll soon be looking at cleaning up various aluminium parts on my rebuild including the transfer box, inlet manifold plus other Ali castings. Does anyone have any advice on what the best methods are to get back to nice clean Ali again?

Dragonwalker · Oct 11, 2014

AlbertDefender90 said:
Hi all,

I'll soon be looking at cleaning up various aluminium parts on my rebuild including the transfer box, inlet manifold plus other Ali castings. Does anyone have any advice on what the best methods are to get back to nice clean Ali again?

Dishwasher.

AlbertDefender90 · Oct 11, 2014

Dragonwalker said:
Dishwasher.

Lol, seen that done before, might get shouted at for putting the transfer box in it

Dragonwalker · Oct 11, 2014

AlbertDefender90 said:
Lol, seen that done before, might get shouted at for putting the transfer box in it

Do it overnight.

AlbertDefender90 · Oct 11, 2014

Dragonwalker said:
Do it overnight.

would that bring off all the scale and crap off the parts? I might be able to sneak some smaller parts in

peterdbrave · Oct 12, 2014

hows about soda blasting

Graynub · Oct 12, 2014

I've been cleaning mine while it's on the landie. If it's off it would be much easier, I used engine degreaser and wd40 and a hose and some rags.

aaronmorris · Oct 12, 2014

It takes a while, But I scrape all the oily crap off, Then use brake cleaner and a rag to get the worst off.
After that I use a wire brush on the drill to get the rest off.
Comes up pretty good to be honest, But time consuming. But if you had a jetwash/steam cleaner you could skip the first couple of steps and it'd be a lot quicker.
I've just rebuilt an lt77 and a transfer box and did both the above way. Both look a darn sight better than they did.
Transfer box output housings, One done/one not

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lt77 before I started.

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They're not perfect, But a lot better than they where and I'm very happy with the results.

AlbertDefender90 · Oct 12, 2014

aaronmorris said:
It takes a while, But I scrape all the oily crap off, Then use brake cleaner and a rag to get the worst off.
After that I use a wire brush on the drill to get the rest off.
Comes up pretty good to be honest, But time consuming. But if you had a jetwash/steam cleaner you could skip the first couple of steps and it'd be a lot quicker.
I've just rebuilt an lt77 and a transfer box and did both the above way. Both look a darn sight better than they did.
Transfer box output housings, One done/one not

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lt77 before I started.

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They're not perfect, But a lot better than they where and I'm very happy with the results.

They're looking good, fortunately I have access to a diesel steam cleaner which should sort the crap out. Does the wire brush leave any deep marks at all as some of the stuff I'm cleaning will be on show

aaronmorris · Oct 12, 2014

AlbertDefender90 said:
They're looking good, fortunately I have access to a diesel steam cleaner which should sort the crap out. Does the wire brush leave any deep marks at all as some of the stuff I'm cleaning will be on show

Ah, That's handy then, I recon the steam cleaner will bring most if not all of it off anyway.

Wire brush doesn't really leave marks as such, But if it's awkward to do it looks uneven.
Look at the gearbox extension casing and it's like that as it's hard to get in.
Transfer box looks the same all over.
So I'd give that a go first and see how you get on.
You may not even have to do that as the steam cleaner should do a very good job to begin with.

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