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Decarbon exhaust
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 1:36 pm
by mopeds4sale
Can you really use a gas grill to decarbon the exhaust and if so how? What temp needs to be reached?
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 3:47 pm
by Kenny_McCormic
I prefer a campfire, you need to reach temperatures that will turn carbon to ash.
Plugging the muffler end and filling it with draino is another option, lye eats carbon.
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 4:03 pm
by toboggan
Kenny,
Could you possibly provide a step by step for the lye?
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 4:55 pm
by evilone
Plug the end of muffler and fill with draino or other "lye" substance and wait. That's it, how long you wait depends on how much time you have. I'd go a few days or more.
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 8:26 pm
by Kenny_McCormic
Dont go too long or you will eat the muffler, Put the highly caustic mess in a heavy duty container, seal it in concrete, and drop it in the ocean near some nuclear waste.
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 8:42 pm
by CharlotteSpreeRider
I destroyed the baffles in a muffler last summer with lye. Lye and aluminum do not mix, kids. Ended up having to buy a NOS muffler off eBay, works great.
-aseigler
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 8:48 pm
by toboggan
So, about how long should you leave the lye in? In approximate hours?
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 5:17 am
by evilone
I guess i over do it!. Go a few hours at least.
Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 3:47 pm
by Kenny_McCormic
CharlotteSpreeRider wrote:I destroyed the baffles in a muffler last summer with lye. Lye and aluminum do not mix, kids. Ended up having to buy a NOS muffler off eBay, works great.
-aseigler
I thought the muffler is all steel excluding some glass packing in the down tube end? Maybe you had some bad corrosion held by carbon?