{"id":173,"date":"2008-09-07T10:42:57","date_gmt":"2008-09-07T08:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/?p=173"},"modified":"2008-09-07T12:11:33","modified_gmt":"2008-09-07T10:11:33","slug":"the-best-way-to-clean-parts-just-dont-tell-the-misses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/?p=173","title":{"rendered":"The best way to clean parts (just dont tell the misses)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One morning i woke up with an idea. I have been thinking of ways to turn my greasy old motor parts into nice clean motor parts without me needing to get to dirty or smell like petrol for another month \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2804-large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-185  aligncenter\" title=\"img_2804-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2804-large-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2804-large-500x375.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2804-large.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2804-large.jpg\"><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Oh yes the wondrous Dish washer, doing some research i found that the best tablets to clean the motor parts with are the Coles home-brand ones (like 15 in a packet). Supposedly these don&#8217;t have anything but soap in them and don&#8217;t harm metal stuff.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #551a8b; text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2806-large.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2806-large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-186\" title=\"img_2806-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2806-large-375x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2806-large-375x500.jpg 375w, http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2806-large.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Trial 1, These parts. In short this didn&#8217;t work too well \ud83d\ude41 But i decided to try it on something else..<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ee; text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2825-large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-188\" title=\"img_2825-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2825-large-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2825-large-500x375.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2825-large.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yes its a disgusting (yet beautiful) 1600 dual port case.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #551a8b; text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2826-large.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2826-large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-189\" title=\"img_2826-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2826-large-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2826-large-500x375.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2826-large.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>After 20 minutes of being in the wash.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ee; text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2828-large.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2828-large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-191\" title=\"img_2828-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2828-large-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2828-large-500x375.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2828-large.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>All clean,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ee; text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2827-large.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2827-large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-190\" title=\"img_2827-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2827-large-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2827-large-500x375.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2827-large.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I plan on giving the other side of the case a wash in petrol to try and compare the results.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ee; text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2829-large.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2829-large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-192\" title=\"img_2829-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2829-large-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2829-large-500x375.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2829-large.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Using wire brush to get some more dirt off the case.<\/p>\n<p>Now what i must quickly explain is if your going to do this make sure you have some WD40 handy for the distributor gears (ideally you should take them out but i couldn&#8217;t get mine out). I left it for a Day before putting WD40 on it and it almost seized up, but all in all i am now on a look out for a decent free washing machine to wash the various parts. (after finding out that the oil in the motor can normally be carcenagenic).<\/p>\n<p>I also put the washing machine through with a clensing tablet after. Its also great for when the misses comes home she hears the dishwasher on and thinks your doign house work.. just dont let her open it to get a knife out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2886-large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-205  aligncenter\" title=\"img_2886-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2886-large-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2886-large-500x375.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2886-large.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To be continued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One morning i woke up with an idea. I have been thinking of ways to turn my greasy old motor parts into nice clean motor parts without me needing to get to dirty or smell like petrol for another month \ud83d\ude1b Oh yes the wondrous Dish washer, doing some research i found that the best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,8,7],"tags":[34,38,39,40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215,"href":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vwgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}