Terra clean good practice?

[Norretal]

Originally Posted by Burnzybubbles

I didn't see your reply until after I posted

But yea we're on the same wavelength, terra clean can probably be good in some instances on certain engines but the v10 isn't one of them, even so you'd probably have the same results from using a big can of sea foam in the engine

No problem at all, like I said, you summed it up well, your response was spot on

[ainarssems]

never really getting up to temperature

They do have electrical heating element in them so should be getting up to temp anyway.

Like others say terraclean will not do anything to intake on FSI engine as it will be injected directly in the cylinder. There are other cleaning methods that electrically split water into oxygen and hydrogen and feed in in the intake but I don't know how effective they are. Best effect probably achieved by mechanical cleaning.

[Delboy]

Does anyone know what the third option shown does on the terraclean link posted.

It claims to be a system for cleaning DI engine like the fsi engines.

Even if it does, where does all that crap go, if it loosened a big lump of carbon that would have to go past the valves get compressed during compression stroke then fired out the exhaust and then meet the cat's???

I do think mechanical cleaning is the only sensible way to go and I may invest in a setup to blast the posts in mine.

It also allows the access to determine the health of the change over flaps at the same time.

[Mechcanico Lee]

Mitsubishi do a machine for cleaning the backs of the valves for there GDI engines that suffered with valve carbon build up , it is a air fed pressure nozzle that uses .... wait for it ...... crushed nuts .... crushed Brazil nut cases to be exact , close the valves give em a blast then vaccum out any debris .

Don't want dirty valves or dirty manifolds ?? Get rid of the Black Death maker ..... EGR

[tc4332]

My end of October MOT only had one advisory and that was verbal:-

"PUT YOUR BLOODIE FOOT DOWN, your wife is killing it on these school runs"

SWMBO has been shown how to hold it in first on the local dual carriageway.

[Norretal]

Originally Posted by tc4332

My end of October MOT only had one advisory and that was verbal:-

"PUT YOUR BLOODIE FOOT DOWN, your wife is killing it on these school runs"

Pretty much the same as me, but no wife and no school runs to blame.......guilty as charged

[Borys]

Hmmm
Last month I did 278miles
My trip to work is lesst then 5 miles one way
I bought a petrol to avoid flaps, dpf,egr problems
Whole scenerio is weird....don't buy a diesel if you do short runs now even petrol !!!!!
Come on it doesn't make sense
I'm not really a fan of put your foot down idea-in my opinion this is when things go wrong with the car
Need to buy a Punto ha ha

[David's8]

Originally Posted by Mechcanico Lee

Mitsubishi do a machine for cleaning the backs of the valves for there GDI engines that suffered with valve carbon build up , it is a air fed pressure nozzle that uses .... wait for it ...... crushed nuts .... crushed Brazil nut cases to be exact , close the valves give em a blast then vaccum out any debris .

Don't want dirty valves or dirty manifolds ?? Get rid of the Black Death maker ..... EGR

Crushed walnut shells was the standard way of cleaning the main engine gas turbines (2 x Olympus and 2 x Tyne) on Her Majesty's war canoes fitted with that GT propulsion systems. Fired through when the GT was running at idle. Got rid of salt and other deposits on the turbine blades. Its a pity they didnt use chestnuts then we could have had roast chestnuts..... As a matter of interest the turbines were run on marine diesel not aviation kerosene.

[Delboy]

So we can run the crushed walnut through the engine when its running, that will save me buying the blasting kit.

Just invert the air inlet and pour in

[Lee S]

Something to do with all those Christmas time walnut shells left over.... don't bin 'em... crush 'em up and stick 'em up your intakes... just don't stand by the exhausts or you'll get sandblasted..