Exhaust de-coke how?....

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Exhaust de-coke how?....

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Hi Guys, just after some info, is there a good way of de-coking the inside of the exhausts? i read on another thread that martin used caustic soda? but i'm not sure if it worked, or he had a problem with it, he didn't sound to pleased with the result? (maybe you could clarify it for me?) Would there be a better way to go about this task. I Know you lot will have the answer as always :) , Cheers Mark.
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I used caustic soda... seemed fine... got loads of crap out... This is how I did it...

1) Drink two bottles of nice wine.... :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: And save the corks

2) Plug the silencer end with the two corks

3) add caustic soda to water in a watering can... DO NOT add water to caustic soda, it will get very hot and give off bad fumes

4) Fill exhausts with your caustic soda solution... and leave to dissolve the crap

5) repeat points 3 and 4 until what you tip out is cleanish

Piece of cake... I wouldn;t do it in a closed area and be careful with your eyes, skin etc etc....

oh and if your on a sceptic tank, dont pour it down your drains :mrgreen:
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As above but if not a wine drinker use two spuds :lol:
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and caustic soda eats aluminium - don't forget to take off your end cans!!
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Cheers guys how long would you leave it? say 15 min's or is this to long ?, now let me see where's them their bottles of wine.......... :)
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defo take the cans off. tried that once. never again . what a pratt
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Red Devil 777 wrote:As above but if not a wine drinker use two spuds :lol:
I used spuds aswell. :lol:
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what about the KR1 1989 is it ok to do the same process?

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Matty21 wrote:what about the KR1 1989 is it ok to do the same process?

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Should be as IIRC the endcans are steel as well, but be carefull not to dislove the exhaust packing in the cans. personnally I would put something long down the end to bloke the cans off
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Post by mgtkr1 »

i use the oxy-aceteleyne to get the shit out. never used caustic soda, is it more effective
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Post by dirk »

Hi Glock,

the best way is you come to Germany and drive with full speed over the "Autobahn".
This ist the best testet "how to decoking exhaust"
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Glock 19 wrote:Cheers guys how long would you leave it? say 15 min's or is this to long ?, now let me see where's them their bottles of wine.......... :)
Depends on how strong you make the mix , but can take a couple of days !
And then might need to repeat the process .
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Post by KwakOn »

dirk wrote: and drive with full speed .....


:lol: tried it.... the endpipes can blow off the cans :-k
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The best/most dangerous way is to heat up expasion chambers so that all of the metal has been red hot, this burns and dries out the carbon which then becomes brittle and easy to remove.

You can use a handful of nuts n bolts or gravel shaken around or a piece of steel cable in the end of a drill with most of the cable inside exhaust and then spun around :twisted: (beware)

Takes a while to heat up metal with a blow torch but does a good job
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