cleaning the valve cover

[canadian_ice]

What is the best way to clean the valve cover on a 4 cylinder engine (1994)? I'd prefer not to take it off. I just want to get it nice and shiny, like it used to be 8 years ago!<P>Thanks!

[Guest]

Yeah, I would like to know how too. I tried using engine detailer and cleaner, but that didnt do much work, it still looks dull and dirty.

[mazdaspeed002]

You might wanna try some metal polishing scotch brite or allow/metal polish made by mothers. you can get it at walmart for a few bucks....Thats what i've used on alloy rims before and it's not too bad. Watch out with the scotch brite though, if you get too heavy duty you'll have scratch marks.

[powerman_5000]

I made my valve cover nice and shiny, looks pretty good. I have some pictures, but I don't have a server to post images off of.

[canadian_ice]

powerman - How'd you do it?<P>You can send me the pictures if you like: mike_self18@hotmail.com

[powerman_5000]

Hey your e-mail address doesn't work.

[kuruption1983]

send it to me <BR>i will post it!<BR>my account limit is unlimited, sooo doesnt matter how big the pics are<P>kaveh@yasna.com<P>take care<BR>i wanna do da same tooo, soo plz send me some nice instructions!<P>thanx bro

[canadian_ice]

powerman - should work now. stupid hotmail!

[claude matte]

hey all <BR>i dont know how clean you want it but i used some egale 1 all purpous weel cleaner on mine<BR>and it came out realy clean <BR>later

[powerman_5000]

Here are some links to the pics:<P><A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/holy_gorditas/DSC00081.JPG" TARGET=_blank>pic 1</A><A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/holy_gorditas/DSC00079.JPG" TARGET=_blank>pic 2</A><BR><A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/holy_gorditas/DSC00080.JPG" TARGET=_blank>pic 3</A><P>Basically all I did was take some simple green(degreaser/cleaner) cleaned it up and then took some very fine sand paper and sanded it down a bit. After it was to the point were I thought it was good enough I took some blue magic metal polish and shined it up.<p>[ August 03, 2002: Message edited by: powerman_5000 ]

[kuruption1983]

ummm basically these are da pics of the bro who was unable to post! they are pretty good actually eh!<P> <BR> <p>[ August 03, 2002: Message edited by: kuruption1983 ]

[mzdspd]

copy paste this into your nav bar and the pic should work <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/crystalxman/DSC00080.JPG" TARGET=_blank>www.geocities.com/crystalxman/DSC00080.JPG</A><p>[ August 08, 2002: Message edited by: mzdspd ]