Engine carbon cleaning?

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Engine carbon cleaning?

Post by dan00001 » Mon Jun 13, 2016 1:12 pm

Anybody heard of this or had it done before?

A friends son has bought a machine that cleans/de-carbons your engine and I was interested if its something worth doing? I had never heard of it before a week ago.
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Re: Engine carbon cleaning?

Post by zook123 » Mon Jun 13, 2016 2:19 pm

Not worth doing it, could make it worse!

I'm sure someone will come along and explain better, a bit like a blood clot, moving around your body....
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Re: Engine carbon cleaning?

Post by Anton » Sun Jun 19, 2016 8:37 am

Redex and a good old italian tuneup every now and then. Otherwise, strip the engine down to the bare block, clean everything and reassemble the engine with new gaskets, stem seals etc.
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Re: Engine carbon cleaning?

Post by RickUK » Sun Jun 19, 2016 9:02 am

A good old bottle of Redex in the tank and occasionally just screw the conkers off the engine cleans it out,have always used Redex in the fuel and STP oil additive in a engine,never had any major problems thus far.
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Re: Engine carbon cleaning?

Post by Jordi » Sun Jun 19, 2016 12:55 pm

Just stick a tin of engine flush in when changing the oil.
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Re: Engine carbon cleaning?

Post by r-nottz » Sun Jun 19, 2016 6:46 pm

Terraclean?

Its good on newer more powerful engines but I have herd some horror stories.

Older engines up to say 2000 is a waste.of time, good old squirt of redex and hi octane fuel combined with some Italian driving is all you need.
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Post by dan_2k_uk » Mon Jun 20, 2016 1:06 pm

I only ever drive Italian so mine must be fantastic:)
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Re: Engine carbon cleaning?

Post by zook123 » Mon Jun 20, 2016 1:30 pm

Ha, my cars have never failed emissions tests either!
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Re: Engine carbon cleaning?

Post by twiss » Mon Jun 20, 2016 2:04 pm

I've been told that you can spray small amounts of water (from a mister/spray bottle) into the engine while keeping the revs up and this will de-coke the engine surfaces
Not sure if it's an old wives tale...
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Re: Engine carbon cleaning?

Post by zook123 » Mon Jun 20, 2016 2:14 pm

What about if I take the air intake off and pour sand in, that will polish the innards! Port and Polish for the price of a bag of sand!
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