Chassis cleaning

[Overdrive]

I have just come back from some beach driving in Namibia and I need to find a place that can clean all the sand and salt out from under the vehicle, somewhere in Joburg or Pretoria. Does anyone know a good place?

[Peter Connan]

Overdrive, in the mean time while you are searching, get the garden sprayer under your car. Run it for a few hours moving it slowly from front to back.

Probably do a better job than 90% of chassis washes...

[Overdrive]

Thanks Peter - a useful suggestion. But I am still hoping to find one with a high pressure hose and an inspection pit.

[Alex Roux]

Overdrive

This is what you do!

http://www.nissanpatrol.com.au/forums/s ... h-a-patrol

[Kagiso II]

O/D - In Pretorai - New Lands on RUBENSTEIN Rd, behind Newlands Trailers [on the crest as you top the hill] (from either side) is a car wash with a pit - you drive over, mannikji gets underneath with HP hosepipe [[ just tell them NO HD soap on your wheels [anders was hulle jou bearings se ghries uit :-) ]]
AND they are reasonable too
Open on weekends - I think till 4 or 5 pm [Sundays closing bit earlier -- They did Tsessebe for me after Faces of Namib trippi while back

[Overdrive]

Thanks Alex I've got a swimming pool but the lorry does'nt have a snorkel.
Baie dankie Oom Mac. Sal a plan maak.

[Alex Roux]

Overdrive

I was actually eagerly waiting for some replies on this post too.
I am actually surprised that there is not more of a recognised business in proper chassis and engine cleaning - I.e. where it is done with the right skills and bearing grease (and prop-shaft grease) is not lost in the process.

We all need it after a good weekend away.

I do not have my engine cleaned anymore, as I am afraid of compromising the plugs with water.
No matter how much you explain to the car washers, they still spray indiscriminately over the engine bay.

[Peter Connan]

Alex, this is not meant to disparage you or your Lexus, but this is opne of the areas of the PAtrol that I really admire: the detail that Nissan engineers went to (and the success they achieved) to minimize the potential effect of water in the engine bay.

I have often claen my engine with a high-pressure hose, and unlike all the other vehicles I have ever owned, it never has any effect whatsoever. I can spray the distrubutor, around the plugs, anywhere. Even with the engine off and cold. And it starts first-time and runs absolutely smoothly thereafter. This was obviously and visibly a priority during the design and positioning of the plug cavities and distributor, among others.

The only place they got it wrong, is the idler bearing on the power-steering belt.

[Kagiso II]

... P/ter is right here [as always] -- Nissan also got it wrong on the Alternator pulley bearing ... ask Christo

Maybe the sourced those bits & design from Ford or Mazda or even Toy ??

[Grant]

Hi Alex


Cedric, Greg, christo and I have never experienced starting issues after a engine pressure wash

Real trucks do not have spark plugs