How to clean manifold

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I have just removed my egr and throtle body from my tdi and some of the crud was 3-4mm thick ...lol. Saw while i was there inlet manifold needs doing.

Now i managed to get all of it off egr and throttle in a about 2/3 hours but it was all easy to reach. Wynn carb cleaner (just happened to have) did not really shift anything. That halfords Gunk degreaser never made an impact really and I had some of that bike cleaner 'muc off' which was ok but i used too much for the small bit I cleaned.

The manifold is 2-3 times as big and 5 times as awkward...lol. What the best thing to clean this with. ...thx
 
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10k boost (diesel)

use this in the taxis every now and again and it works wonders


easy enough to use, just split the intake after the AFM and spray it in
 
Carb cleaner, toothbrush and lots of patience, I've done a few V6 Mondeo's this way. I've thought of using a small brass brush, but as long as its a softer material that the manifold it'll be fine.
 
I had to do this and all I had kicking around was Paraffin, left it to soak and attacked with a toothbrush, and that seemed to shift 20 years of crud (Old Citroen BX 19 GTi)
 
White spirit 5L from b&q plus a bottle brush (wear goggles) and a bucket.

Make sure you rinse it completely clean of the spirit before you put it back.
Is it a LR by any chance (tdi)? You may as well soak the intercooler too (really rinse the WS out of this one and dry thoroughly using hair-dryer or similar).

Then blank off the egr so you have no more treacle stuffing up your inlet manifold/valves etc.
 
Remove manifold from engine and soak with petrol/white spirit for a while then steam clean the whole shebang internally at full steam.

Try and remove as much crud manually first.
 
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