Whats best to clean my engine with... also missing rubber?

[vdubstar]

Hello i've got bit of a oil leak and I dared to venture under my van with haynes manual in hand! i was very proud however all i could see was dirty old oil and lumps of it all congiled type stuff SO being typical me! I want to clean it all off then have the theory oil leak will be easier to see! So how is best to (and if possible the easiest!) way to clean all the old rubbish off the underneath bottom of my engine?

Also i noticed at bustypes that alot of peoples hightops had a rubber around the roof...... Mine hasn't.. I'm always have leaking problems and maybe this doest help! SO perhaps mine needs one? not tha ti can see where it fits onto...

Any help would be grateful recieved many thanks

[Grumpy Midget]

The only suggestion I can give you is get the ar-e end as high as possible ie axle stands or ramps and chock the front wheels to stop any forward movement,==== .
Then get underneath and remove any sump gards or Tinware, Then put a pair of safty gogs on an Spray with any hand held common garden spray bottle with a degreasant and poke or scrub with a 1inch brush, repeatedly hose or jetwash off,-----------


Have Fun-------------------------------

[kevtherev]

Hello i've got bit of a oil leak and I dared to venture under my van with haynes manual in hand! i was very proud however all i could see was dirty old oil and lumps of it all congiled type stuff SO being typical me! I want to clean it all off then have the theory oil leak will be easier to see! So how is best to (and if possible the easiest!) way to clean all the old rubbish off the underneath bottom of my engine?

Also i noticed at bustypes that alot of peoples hightops had a rubber around the roof...... Mine hasn't.. I'm always have leaking problems and maybe this doest help! SO perhaps mine needs one? not tha ti can see where it fits onto...

Any help would be grateful recieved many thanks

Gunk... available at most motor factors.. cleans oily engines quick
you're gonner get dirty doing this ..be prepared

you don't say if you have a factory conversion or not.
mine has no rubbers on the sides .
Sykaflex is the sealant you need.

[Grumpy Midget]

Also i noticed at bustypes that alot of peoples hightops had a rubber around the roof...... Mine hasn't.. I'm always have leaking problems and maybe this doest help! SO perhaps mine needs one? not tha ti can see where it fits onto...
Can you be more specific as to were the rubber strip fits onto the Hightop, Front.-=Rear----- Near Side-----Offside ??????????
Reason I asking as I have a Hightop. an E.M.C and I was also at Bustypes. But I dont have any Rubber on my hightop and it dont Leak either,

[vdubstar]

Thank you all for your replies, i've heard of GUNK before actualy so will try that route i think, just not parked on my driveway(rented house n landlord already not happy with odd oil drip!) I'm not worried about getting dirty or hard work just learning how to do stuff and decieded to start doing things myself!

As for the rubber i saw it went all the way round the hightop where it meets the van above windscreen back window and just above the rain gutters, I was just cuoius why mine didn't!

I have had mine sikalflexed before but they filled my gutters with it too! and it has bubbles wholes n wells for rain to leak thru so i think i need it re doing can't go around with duck tape on it all the time!

Thanks for all your help x
kim

[T'Onion]

Kim
What engine is it ?
Go steady when cleaning the engine , loads of rubber seals under there ( if its a petrol A/C or W/C) , and you need to be extra careful around the push-rod tube seals ,
Could just be the sump-washer needs replacing ,which can be done at service time. Unless its pea'ing out I'd leave it alone. You could make it worse.

[The Reverend Pimp Daddy]

and DON'T use Gunk anywhere near tarmac, it disolves it

[Grumpy Midget]

and DON'T use Gunk anywhere near tarmac, it disolves it

Come on Reverand, He lives in Pottery - Land, dont ave Tarmac there not like in Nantwich---------
They ave Cobbled or Porcelain Drive ways------------------------

[The Reverend Pimp Daddy]

and DON'T use Gunk anywhere near tarmac, it disolves it

Come on Reverand, He lives in Pottery - Land, dont ave Tarmac there not like in Nantwich---------
They ave Cobbled or Porcelain Drive ways------------------------

Not getting sexist, but you do mean SHE....lol...Sorry Kim

Wedgewood has Porcelain drives ???.....I must have broken them up with my coach when I visited a few times, next you'll be telling me the footpaths are lined with gold

[vdubstar]

Nothing sexist there rev! I am a she yes! its ok used to getting presumed a he! Mr vdubstar colin took the mic for ages! I am infact Miss Vdubstar should add that to my signiture! Dunna bother me tho! and thanks for the hint about melting my drivway don't think my landlord will like that! Think may just wipe it clean with a cloth for now see if that makes it self known! Seems bit to complicated for a women! LOL

Am getting oil and filter change and enginue flush tuesday so will see about that sump seal too. Thanks for all your input guys!