How To Clean Oil Off Ceramic Coated Headers

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How to clean oil off ceramic coated headers.

How to clean ceramic coated headers. Park the car over a large sheet of plastic or tarp. Try soaking the header in anti freeze. If you ever have any oil burned on or surface deposits from water or other liquids more aggressive measures will need to be taken.

May take some agitation or coaxing by scraping with a wooden stick on the surface. Worked great on my coated headers with years of dried oil on them. We used to do this with our r c cars pipes after a long main event. But if you can get the goof off into the surface of whatever your trying to remove it usually will soften and allow you to wipe it off.

Took a little more off but not all. I will make my way over to the local ceramic coating shop and see what they have to say. Jump to latest follow 1 11 of 11 posts. I don t know how much of a difference ceramic coating header will actually help or how big of a difference there is with coated vs.

Wipe the tubes down with an environmentally safe orange cleaner degreaser or mild soap warm water and a soft cloth dry thoroughly. I tried stronger cleaners such as windex and even carb cleaner. This will void your warranty if they catch ya fastss396man brian. And sometimes laquer thinner will work.

Once they get oilstained you are done. When storing your car for an extended period of time some precautions must be taken. Ceramic coated polished ceramic coated headers stainless. I however should have cleaned it off right away cause it got through the coating and now shows many chips underneath.

Never tried it on normal oil though. All the pitstops caused fuel with oil of course to get onto the pipe and burn onto it. The anti freeze loosened it up nicely and normally you could get the pipe looking good as new.