What if I have $3, some time on my hand, and don’t want to risk damaging my engine parts with oven cleaner? The oven cleaner was left on for six hours. Check out how clean this guy’s transmission got thanks to Oven Cleaner.Īccording to this transmission owner, there was 30 years of grease, oil, and caked on diesel covering this transmission. If the part your using it on is not aluminum, does not have paint (or you don’t mind getting paint stripped) and you’re 100 percent sure oven cleaner will not react with the metal, the results speak for themselves. this was on a factory motor that was about 10 years old at the time.īut, if the part you’re cleaning has paint and you don’t mind it being stripped to bare metal, by all means, go ahead and use Oven Cleaner. I sprayed it on the engine & before I could go get the water hose to rinse it off, the foam was starting to turn orange, I finally got it rinsed off, less than 5 minutes total time, it removed the paint from the top of the engine, intake, valve covers.
As mentioned by that chemist above, the strong alkaline nature of Oven Cleaner will strip the living heck out of any paint, even if you put the stuff on for a couple of minutes.Ĭonsider the experience this Chevelle owner had when he sprayed Oven Cleaner on the engine bay of his Chevelle. For the love of all that’s holy, DON’T BREATH THE SPRAY ITSELF! Do not use on painted surfacesĭo not use Oven Cleaner on any engine parts that have paint on them.
Easy off oven cleaner skin#
…The non-wuss version is all essentially lye based – pH above 11.5, will eat aluminum and paint with time, dissolves eyeballs at an ALARMING rate and skin somewhat slower (fun fact, it’s turning your subcutaneous fat into SOAP! YAY!) So wear heavy gloves and eye protection, and a respirator in enclosed spaces. The active ingredient in Oven Cleaner is sodium hydroxide more commonly known as caustic soda.Īccording to an actual chemist when the question was asked on Grassroots Motorsports,
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