Molassas tank results

[19polara64]

Are you saying the start to finish of that part was 4 days, or did you put it back in after the "wire brushed it lightly" part?

If so for how much longer?

also has the half that's still a little rusty been in the solution at all? The still bad side looks better in the bottom pic than it does in the top pic.

In for four days, wire brushed it, back in for another 4 days. 8 days total(counted wrong lol). The rusty half hadn't been in yet.

 

[Meep-Meep]

This is amazing!! Thanks for posting. Might have to be looking for an old bathtub!

 

[SureGrip]

Thanks Photon. Looks like we need a different presoak solution to get rid of the grease easily before it goes into the rust remover solution LOL

For that, you can't really beat TSP (Tri-sodium phosphate bought from Home Depot/Lowes or on-line). I filled a 5-gal bucket with a small box of the stuff and mixed well with really hot water, and dropped a upper and lower control arm in it....this was the first time I used it, and keeping the mixture hot really helps to do a better job.

Some people 'simmer' the pot, keeping it close to boiling, and it will suck the grease and dirt from all the nooks and crannies (Check youtube for videos). The upper control arm was done first when the water was hot....only took a couple hours of soaking and a light scrub with a scotchbrite pad when I pulled it out to get completely clean.
The lower control arm took longer as the bucket was outside and cooled too much...it still worked well, just took more work to wipe the REALLY THICK grease off the part.

Like the molasses method, it doesn't hurt the metal...but wear gloves as a precaution, or pull the parts out with some pliers and drop right into a clean bucket of fresh water (hot is better).

I think the 1lb box I used was like $4-5 from Home Depot.

 

[19polara64]

For that, you can't really beat TSP (Tri-sodium phosphate bought from Home Depot/Lowes or on-line). I filled a 5-gal bucket with a small box of the stuff and mixed well with really hot water, and dropped a upper and lower control arm in it....this was the first time I used it, and keeping the mixture hot really helps to do a better job.

Some people 'simmer' the pot, keeping it close to boiling, and it will suck the grease and dirt from all the nooks and crannies (Check youtube for videos). The upper control arm was done first when the water was hot....only took a couple hours of soaking and a light scrub with a scotchbrite pad when I pulled it out to get completely clean.
The lower control arm took longer as the bucket was outside and cooled too much...it still worked well, just took more work to wipe the REALLY THICK grease off the part.

Like the molasses method, it doesn't hurt the metal...but wear gloves as a precaution, or pull the parts out with some pliers and drop right into a clean bucket of fresh water (hot is better).

I think the 1lb box I used was like $4-5 from Home Depot.

Thanks Suregrip! Looks like I need another barrel LOL

 

[tallhair]

Just bookmarked both threads .. thanks photo

 

[66Satellite_in_NC]

Incredible, I've bookmarked it as well. Thanks for sharing this tip!