I just went to the Junkyard today and found this great 9 inch from a 92 Explorer, its got a TON of grease/grim on it and tomorrow I'm gunna clean it all up and take a look inside. Can anyone give me some tips on where/what solvent to use to get the crud off??? I have some spray on stuff but its horrible, I hope i wont have to use it. Also it came with 13" drums on it, do you think I should convert them to discs? BTW, I just finished converting my front to 11" discs from MPBrakes.

 

If you have a trailer or a pickup, put the axle on the rear most portion, go to a car wash late at night (note the timing) and blast away with pure soap and hot water, don't bother with the rince. Cleaned up many transmissions, transaxles, engines, rear axles, trailers and cars that way.I will of course deny that I gave such advice but it works and it's better to have a mess somewhere other than in my yard.
Jim

 

alright

 

Use the one on White Road. Make sure the low riders don't see you.
Jim

 

As progressive as Cal. is I would think that the building codes would require grease traps in car washes. If they do, you can rest easy tonight Jim, you may not have destroyed the planet after all. Let's ask Redass.

 

The problem is that CA has laws against actually cleaning anything under the hood at the carwashes. I don't think Jim is too worried about the effect on the environment but he probably doesn't want a run-in with the law (BTDT at the coin-op carwash for cleaning my engine).

BTW, that 9" from the Explorer is really an 8.8". On top of it having drums, it only has 28 spline axles. If you really want to use one of these, at least get a later model with disc brakes and 31 spline axles.

 

EXACTLY!!!!! i have *known people* who have cleaned plenty of stuff this way. and yeah, no 9" for you if it came from an essploder

 

ya i went to decode it online and found that out... its not that big a deal

 

+1 on the carwash at night! Powerwashers are great!!

BTW, most carwash places actually recycle their water, so they have filtering systems and detergents to cleanse it. You paid for it, I'd use it anyway you want

An 11" brake would need a 15" wheel, so I would assume a 13" drum would require you to have 17" rear wheels.

 

You Kali guys have to sneak around at night to clean your cars. We Texans just pull into a car wash in full daylight and blast away. The crud has to come off first, and that can only be accomplished with a putty knife and a wire brush, then hit it with a degreaser like "Gunk" brand, then do the carwash thing.